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• I've done many different movies in many different contexts.

  Antonio Banderas

  Done

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• Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Believe, Taken

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• In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Issues, Movement, Spirit

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• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Historical, Principles, Examination

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• I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.

  Ben Vereen

  Teacher, New York, Moving

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• A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

  Coventry Patmore

  Doe, Saint, Motive

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• I'd never say I'll never have a facelift, but I'm way too scared of looking like a different person. I have no philosophical or political position on plastic surgery; I just don't want to look crazy. And I don't like not being able to tell how old someone is: It's creepy.

  Ellen Barkin

  Crazy, Philosophical, Political

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• Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

  Asa Gray

  Animal, Oxygen, Years

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological School of Yale College”

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• We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

  Asa Gray

  Book, Order, Ideas

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

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• Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Keith Tester, Zygmunt Bauman, Michael Hviid Jacobsen (2005). “Bauman Before Postmodernity: Invitation, Conversations and Annotated Bibliography 1953-1989”, Aalborg Universitetsforlag

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• The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't.

  George Jones

  Saint, Forgiven, Sinner

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• You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

  Nancy Reagan

  Feet, Each Day, Get Up

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. February 5, 2001.

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• It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.

  Miranda Richardson

  Resilient, Feels, Different Things

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• And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.

  Alfre Woodard

  Believe, People, Rebellious

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• I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

  Bryan Adams

  Two, People, Three

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• The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.

  John Singer Sargent

  Book, Technique, Littles

  "John Sargent". Book by K.C. Charteris, p. 1231927, 1927.

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• As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.

  Alan Lightman

  Religious, Views, Belief

  Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.30, Vintage

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• Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

  LeVar Burton

  Book, Reading, Ipads

  "Levar Burton launches the "Next generation" reading rainbow app... And returns to 'community'!" by Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2012.

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• You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

  Terry Eagleton

  Long, Actors, Lines

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• For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.

  David Cronenberg

  Hurt, Personality, Guy

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• The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.

  Warren Farrell

  Jobs, Boys, Emotional

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• Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Two, Asking, Plus

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• It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Drama, Tennis, Emotion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.

  Kenneth Burke

  Degrees, Kind, Social

  Kenneth Burke (1962). “A grammar of motives, and A rhetoric of motives”

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• I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.

  Eric Burdon

  Song, Passion, Order

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