Opposites Quotes - Page 28

• Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.

  Kate Flannery

  Nice, Careers, Looks

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• I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

  Sky Ferreira

  Hate, Self, People

  "Sky Ferreira and the dark side of the music biz" by Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.

  Cam Gigandet

  Growing Up, People, Trying

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• Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

  Jay Griffiths

  Measurement, Facts, Arguing

  "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production.

  Jennifer Garner

  Looks, Way, Like Her

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• That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Way, Curious

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• There are so many good roles for women out there, I don't understand it when people say the role choices are fewer as you get older. I find the opposite to be true - there are less good roles out there for the hot 20-year-olds because the normal girl parts just aren't interesting.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Girl, Years, People

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

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• Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite. For example, there are circumstances when it is advisable to introduce, elaborate and defend ad hoc hypotheses, or hypotheses which contradict well-established and generally accepted experimental results, or hypotheses whose content is smaller than the content of the existing and empirically adequate alternative, or self-inconsistent hypotheses, and so on.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Self, Adequate

  "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.

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• The unification of opposites which characterizes the commercial and political style is one of the many ways in which discourse and communication make themselves immune against the expression of protest and refusal.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Communication, Expression, Political

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.90, Beacon Press

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• The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

  Thomas Sowell

  Science, Different, Levels

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

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• And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.

  Hippocrates

  Science, Principles, Would Be

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• And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.

  Theodor Adorno

  Health, Sick, Normal

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.60, Verso

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• A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

  William Delbert Gann

  Business, Successful, Doe

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• Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

  Alexander Sutherland Neill

  Love, Hate, Indifference

  Alexander Sutherland Neill (1969). “Summerhill: a radical appoach to education”

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• I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.

  Craig Ferguson

  Night, Psych, Yelling

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• However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Mistake, People, Political

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• What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!

  Linda Hunt

  Lucky, Schwarzenegger, Come Up

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• I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Discovery, Childhood, Doing What You Want

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• We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.

  James P. Hoffa

  Country, Fighting, Political

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• It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.

  Neil Jordan

  Dark, Journey, Done

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• Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

  Ezra Koenig

  Rap, Thinking, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself to imagine what mine look like at all. My sense of them comes from the inside. They remain, by necessity, physically vague in my mind.

  Nicole Krauss

  Character, Smell, Mind

  "Nicole Krauss: 'I take great pleasure in thinking'". Interview With Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

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• I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

  Chad Kroeger

  Hipster, Culture, Ends

  "The MH Interview: Chad Kroeger". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. October 26, 2012.

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• My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

  John Mahoney

  Class, Play, Acting

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