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Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
- Douglas Feith
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I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.
- Sam Riley
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Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany.
- Gad Elmaleh
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In investing, we intuitively think we should make a number of small bets. A blockbuster strategy is the opposite. It means making fewer huge investments. But it turns out to be safer.
- Anita Elberse
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I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am.
- Maiara Walsh
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I'm English. I've never said the opposite. I'm 100 per cent English. In Portugal it happens that a lot of Brazilians play for Portugal and they're not Portuguese.
- Eric Dier
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You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.
- Jose Bergamin
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I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.
- Rachel Nichols
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I figure out who I'm playing opposite, and I really do study them.
- Tisha Campbell-Martin
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But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.
- Jim Coleman
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My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.
- Linda Evans
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That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.
- Taryn Manning
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It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites.
- Mark Rydell
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We were like bishops of opposite color.
- Boris Spassky
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When people are entering a high-stress period, they don't sleep and don't exercise, but in fact, it should be just the opposite.
- Jim Loehr
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Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.
- Jane Haddam
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If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.
- David O. Selznick
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I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.
- Josh Lucas
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Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
- Ernestine Rose
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The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.
- Joel Hodgson
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The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.
- Susan Orlean
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After a three-month course in acting, I bagged my first film 'Suraksha' - opposite actor Suniel Shetty.
- Divya Dutta
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I'm the opposite of a gearhead. I like simplicity. I use what works, and the only time I change it is when I have to.
- Wayne Static
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Getting comfortable again and being in a vocal booth on the opposite end of the spectrum, when you're normally the one tracking the vocals, is kind of scary.
- Mija
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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
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
- Olivier Martinez
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The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.
- Amos Oz
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The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.
- Michael Servetus
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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
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If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.
- Gaby Hoffmann
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Introverts prefer introversion; we tend to gain energy by reflecting and expend energy when interacting. Extroverts have the opposite preference; they tend to gain energy by interacting and expend energy while reflecting.
- Laurie Helgoe
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Iran has not invaded any other country. We have not threatened to use force. Just exactly the opposite of Israel. Israel threatens to use force against Iran almost on a daily basis. And it has a record.
- Mohammad Javad Zarif
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If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.
- Annie Baker
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I feel very American, but my upbringing was quite the opposite.
- Xander Schauffele
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Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.
- Rudolf Arnheim
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The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate.
- Noam Chomsky
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I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.
- Keren Ann
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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
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I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.
- Masayoshi Son
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When you're little you either want to be like your dad or be directly opposite.
- Lane Kiffin
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In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.
- Nelson Eddy
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I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.
- Andrew Solomon
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Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.
- Susan Cain
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I try to only eat animals that are vegan. I'm probably the opposite of a vegan.
- Jim Gaffigan
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In poker, you want to play the weaker guys. In chess, it's the opposite.
- Hikaru Nakamura
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
- Ian Hislop
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I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.
- Kim Ki-duk
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I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite.
- David Thewlis
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There are so many directors who don't like any kind of interaction on set except for producers. I am the opposite.
- Sean Baker
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Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.
- Kelly Wearstler
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I would have definitely taken up the offer to act opposite Salman Khan.
- Shriya Saran
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The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.
- Jeff Kober
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We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset.
- Charles Sturt
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Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.
- Tyson Fury
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Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.
- Dayananda Saraswati
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A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.
- Elizabeth Fishel
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In a lot of ways, their journeys are opposite of each other's: Aang was a peace-loving monk, through and through, whereas Korra is a dyed in the wool fighter.
- Bryan Konietzko
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On stage, my look should be the total opposite of my look offstage.
- Jennie
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I consider the indiscriminate propagation of self-help to be morally unacceptable... self-help is the opposite of autonomous or vernacular life.
- Ivan Illich
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The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.
- Jerry Brown
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You either become like your parents or you become the opposite of your parents. And I like to think that I'm the opposite of my parents.
- Chelsea Handler
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To most people, jazz-fusion means this dreadful synthetic jazz-rock thing, this jazz-Muzak, which I detest. They also think of jazz as a specific form of music, while to me it's just the opposite.
- Allan Holdsworth
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
- Walt Mossberg
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There's more to light than the opposite of dark.
- Ric Ocasek
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Without sounding sexist, you have to cast a real man opposite Cate Blanchett. You need a guy who's grown up.
- Todd Haynes
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Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.
- Leon Krier
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You answer anger with love. You answer anger with selflessness. The answer to anger is always the opposite thing of anger.
- Anthony Ramos
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For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
- Bob Wells
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I have always given money away. I haven't always been wealthy - the opposite, in fact. But I have always felt that I wanted people to share it with me.
- Jon Huntsman, Sr.
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I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
- Bill Griffith
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
- William James
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
- Pablo Picasso
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In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.
- Noam Chomsky
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While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
- Horace
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Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
- Honore de Balzac
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The idea that putting Americans 'first' requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.
- Colin Powell
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
- Plato
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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.
- Cristiano Ronaldo
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Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.
- Frank Capra
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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
- William Shenstone
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The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
- Robert Anthony
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It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
- Douglas Wilson
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History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.
- Jose Rizal
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
- Fran Lebowitz
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
- Susan Sontag
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
- Thomas Mann
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When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.
- Tim Allen
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I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.
- Neil LaBute
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Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
- Bill Laswell
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
- Rollo May
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
- Paul Gauguin
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Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
- Gloria Steinem
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I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.
- Eva Mendes
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
- May Sarton
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As for being a little bunny that never says a word, that is truly the opposite of me.
- Brigitte Bardot
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We're actors. We're the opposite of people.
- Tom Stoppard
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To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
- Henry Moore
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