Opposites Quotes - Page 27

• You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?

  Antonio Banderas

  Years, Guy, Going Out

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• I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in Epaminondas, who displayed extreme valour and extreme benevolence. For otherwise it is not an ascent, but a fall. We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fall, Greatness, Space

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• Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

  Livy

  Together, Toil, Connections

  Livy (1823). “The History of Rome”, p.417

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• Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling.

  Willard Gaylin

  Feel Good, Feelings, Emotion

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• If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Falling In Love, Gay, Gender

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• I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.

  John Sayles

  Way, Firsts, Made

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• My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

  Graham Swift

  Upbringing

  "How did I end up becoming a novelist?" by Edward Marriott, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

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• Work is the opposite of creativity.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Creativity

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• What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Real, School, Thinking

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• To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a Woman, the opposite of a Man, that is, the female must act like a faggot.

  Valerie Solanas

  Men, Males, Female

  Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”

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• I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

  Louis Malle

  Thinking, Disturbed, Prophecy

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• Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

  Sandra Bullock

  Giving, Actors, Given

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• I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.

  Cameron Diaz

  Thinking, Play, People

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• In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

  Ariel Gore

  Happiness, Block, Home

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• The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Brutality, Next, Hours

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• In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Character, Suffering And Death, Tragedy

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• If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

  Annie Baker

  College, Thinking, Students

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• The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

  Ulrich Beck

  Intelligent, Ideas, Identity

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• I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Communication, Kids, Parent

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• I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.

  Dan Auerbach

  Love Is, Men, Talking

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

  Duane Chapman

  Father, Kids, Today

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

  David Douglass

  Data, Atmosphere, Earth

  Letter to the Wall Street Journal, www.desmogblog.com.

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• Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Desire, Theatre, Hollywood

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• I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

  Warwick Davis

  Dream, Average, Play

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 7, 2001.

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• Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.

  Alex Flinn

  Book, Taken, Writing

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