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As marriage goes, I think most people sort of set being - you know getting married as the goal as opposed to being married.
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.
I am not opposed to government efforts to stop terrorist plots. We are still seared by the memory of 9/11, and we should be.
The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity.
Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.
After a hard day, choosing to do something to help you feel better - as opposed to staying in a bad mood - is a healthy skill.
Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.
I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.
I think, generally, the creative process is hurt if you're thinking about the end as opposed to focusing on day-to-day decisions.
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
Before I walk onto the stage, it's about the centrality of Jesus and just really keeping a focus on Jesus as opposed to ourselves.
I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.
I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.
I'm not opposed to the consumption of alcohol. I'm opposed to my kids watching TV at seven o'clock and being told to bet and drink.
I consider myself a humanist. Even if I do very dark worlds, I try to make those characters real humans as opposed to just cartoons.
It's certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.
I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment.
I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
I don't want to see a 'Sopranos' movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as opposed to becoming a movie.
When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
I guess I'm always drawn to the underbelly of someone, really, as opposed to how heroic they are. I don't judge those sorts of people.
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
I was just tapped on the shoulder from above and told to write these songs, as opposed to wanting to be a success in the music business.
I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.
Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
I just think it's so much more rewarding and important to go around the world and bring people together as opposed to pushing people away.
The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.
The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.
We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church.
Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.
I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
Initially, my father opposed the idea of joining films and did not want me to move out, but now I'm closest to him and have his full support.
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.
I opposed the NMP scheme very, very strongly and I stated my case in Parliament, objected to it and voted against it. That has been my stand.
I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.
It is my understanding that some groups who are opposed to visiting our campus are basing their decision on Liberty's concealed carry policy.
One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.
I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.