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Tag Name "Opposite" (1279)

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A film, since it is primarily a visual medium, should really be like a silent film. You should be able to watch something and understand what was going on and use voice when you need to communicate something you can't necessarily communicate visually. The book is the opposite. The book is an inner monologue which is beautiful.
Tom Ford
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When you're 20, you think the whole world is talented, but whenyou get older, you realize the opposite is true.
Peter Marino
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And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.
Meg Cabot
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A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.
Nathaniel Branden
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Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.
Napoleon Hill
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Love and fear are the two opposite ends of the continuum, as far as I'm concerned. When we are not in love, we are in fear.
Jack Canfield
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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
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There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.
C. S. Lewis
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Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.
Ernst Haas
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For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).
Geneen Roth
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History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
Edmund Snow Carpenter
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Well people love to go dirty and stuff like that. It's funny, because even really dirty things can kind of inspire, but all things inspire really dirty improv and monologues. So then really dirty things can inspire the exact opposite. It's kind of a crapshoot.
Amy Poehler
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This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.
Paul Krugman
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If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.
Ken Kesey
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A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.
Billy Ray Cyrus
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I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
Marilyn vos Savant
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I’m staring into chocolate eyes. although my brain is clouded and I’m dizzy, I know enough to register that chocolate is the opposite of blue. I don’t want blue. Blue confuses me too much. Chocolate is straight-forward, easier to deal with.
Simone Elkeles
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If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.
Robert Ringer
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Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it. I suppose this is why people always want other people to say I love you. I think just the opposite—that thoughts are realest when thought, that expressing them distorts or dilutes them.
Peter Cameron
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The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.
Jean Baudrillard
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There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.
H. P. Lovecraft
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In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.
Leo Tolstoy
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I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
Emily Giffin
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Since I've grown up I really wanted to be able to create something different. In Persian music, opposite, again, to classical music, that the instrument developed and evolved over, like, hundreds of years, our instrument all remained the same.
Hafez Nazeri
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