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Tag Name "Contrary" (839)

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Contrary to what people are saying, you can't go by what people say, but by their spirit.
Stevie Wonder
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Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.
Thomas Perry
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Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.
Randeep Hooda
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Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.
Tony Robbins
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Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God its a witness to God making it down to the worst people.
Tullian Tchividjian
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Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.
Terry Pratchett
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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
Renee Fleming
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Contrary to popular belief, a good number of transvestites-both male and female-are also heterosexual. Just because they want to get dressed up like the opposite sex does not necessarily mean they want to go to bed with the same sex. Some have successful heterosexual marriages & enjoy the most delightful shopping experiences.
Peter McWilliams
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Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Peter Ustinov
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
Robert Genn
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Contrary to popular belief, I have always had a wonderful repertoire with my players.
Danny Ozark
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Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate.
Evgeny Morozov
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Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin.
George Orwell
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Contrary to many of the rumors and innuendo in circulation, I wholeheartedly believe that Obama views Israels security as absolute.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally became an evolutionist in 1837 rather it was his evolutionary views that allowed him, retrospectively, to understand the complex case of the finches.
Frank Sulloway
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Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.
Jacques Delors
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Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.
Magnus Carlsen
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Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by thechildren's imminent or actual departure--fathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husband's distress
Lillian B. Rubin
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Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
Jerry Saltz
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Contrary to his infallibly honest image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.
Seth Grahame-Smith
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Contrary to popular belief, there are lots of actions on the part of Jefferson and Hemings that speak about the basic nature of their relationship.
Annette Gordon-Reed
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Contrary to most people’s beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision.
Shayan Italia
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Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.
Roy H. Williams
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Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.
Nick Kroll
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