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People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.
Jennifer Lopez
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Actress
Running
Men
Hotel
Promiscuous
Scandalous
Sexy
Opposite
Bringing
Equate
Hotel Room
Shaped
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Writer
Kids
Communication
Opposites
Rebellious
Opposite
Extreme
Stricter
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There is a huge misconception that if you do something like hot yoga, you'll burn more calories, and the opposite is true. You want to heat your body from the inside out, not the outside in.
Jillian Michaels
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Personal Trainer
Yoga
Calories
Heat
Misconception
Your Body
Opposite
Burn
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Everyone says 'Anna Karenina' is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.
Mary Gaitskill
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Author
Anna
Stronger
Opposite
Forces
Limit
Societal
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In racing, you want to win - there are no rules, and you can do whatever you want. Flying a plane is the opposite: you respect rules and fly to the rules. You can't possibly compare the two.
Niki Lauda
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Formula One Driver
Compare
Flying
Racing
Rules
Opposite
No Rules
Plane
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However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!
David Douglass
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Physicist
Atmosphere
Available
Data
Earth
Faster
Models
Opposites
Predict
Opposite
However
Observational
Warming
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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Virginia Woolf
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Writer
Courage
Agree
Mean
Thinking
Ask
Life Courage Always
Within
Opposite
Outside
People Say
Saying
Thinks
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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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Painter
Experience
Nature
Artist
Opposites
Reason
Opposite
Although
Commence
Investigate
Necessary
Proceed
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It's a Stanley Cup thing. The boys mangle one another for a series, performing all kinds of nasty tricks, then they make nice, shaking soggy hands as the teams shuffle in opposite directions.
George Vecsey
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Author
Nasty
Performing
Shaking
Shuffle
Stanley
Stanley Cup
Tricks
Opposite
Cup
Directions
Teams
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Often, I'm sitting opposite a client, and I'm thinking, 'How do I convince him to not copy the best-selling product out there?' And sometimes I don't know. Really, it's smarter to be a thief.
Marcel Wanders
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Designer
Convince
Sitting
Smarter
Opposite
Client
Copy
Product
Thief
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There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.
Rich Lowry
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Editor
Decision
Hello
Mouths
Opposites
Decisions
Opposite
Bush
Mouth
Right Decisions
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We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Journalist
Poor
Real World
Weak
Opposite
Assume
Exact
Exact Opposite
In Fact
Screw
The Real World
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Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.
Robert Fortune
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Botanist
Branches
Chinese
Chosen
Depends
Eye
One Sided
Opposites
Tree
Opposite
Particularly
Generally
Stunted
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When you lose everything, then you have something. It's exactly the opposite because everything that you have, it's not really yours. What is yours, you don't need to earn. It's yours by right.
Yossi Ghinsberg
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Author
Opposite
Earn
Exactly
Yours
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Sketching is like dancing. It's process as much as product. You can turn your head off and just sort of dissolve into the now. Doing a giant, super thought-out painting is the opposite of that.
Molly Crabapple
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Artist
Dancing
Painting
Process
Sketching
Like
Just
Now
Opposite
Much
Doing
Dissolve
Sort
Giant
Off
Head
Product
Super
Turn
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Whereas the handling of the case against President Nixon clearly strengthened the nation's respect for law, justice and truth, the Clinton impeachment may unfortunately have the opposite result.
Jeff Sessions
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United States Senator
Clinton
Impeachment
President Nixon
Opposite
Case
Clearly
Unfortunately
Handling
Nixon
Result
Strengthened
Whereas
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In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
Mariella Frostrup
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Journalist
Friendship
Avoiding
Confrontation
Intimate
Lethargy
Romance
Opposite
Detail
Partner
Tend
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Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions.
Pieter Zeeman
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Physicist
Rotating
Opposite
Circular
Conceived
Direction
Electron
Movements
Perpendicular
Split
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As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.
Lee Radziwill
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Socialite
Children
Glamour
Mother
Opposites
Surroundings
Taste
Turner
Opposite
Admired
Banal
Enviable
Seemed
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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Opposites
Thinking
Opposite
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Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.
Richard Rohr
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Priest
Addiction
Alternatives
Consciousness
Opposites
Passing
Alternative
Absolute
Opposite
Feed
Identify
Refuses
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The music that I'm known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite - I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.
Jose Gonzalez
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Singer-Songwriter
Electric
Gentle
Loud
Quiet
Teenager
Opposite
Although
Guitars
Screaming
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In my view - which could be wrong, but it is my field - there is no better formula for social instability than to divide a society between two ascribed characteristics that are seen as opposite.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Former United States Senator
Characteristics
Instability
Opposite
Seen
Divide
Field
Formula
View
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I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true.
Claire Danes
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Actress
Frightened
Opposite
Money Movies People
Invested
Repel
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I was raised as a Christian, where all you're taught is to be humble, even if you did something right. Politics is the complete opposite of: you do something a little nice, and you tell everyone.
Grace Meng
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United States Representative
Be Humble
Christian
Humble
Nice
Raised
Taught
Opposite
Everyone
Did
Complete
Complete Opposite
Tell
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There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the opposite.
Janet Jackson
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Recording Artist
Divorce
Opposites
Real
Stressful
Weight
Opposite
May Lose People
Regardless
Thin
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When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Author
Adaptable
Disorder
Fragile
Gains
Opposites
People
Resilient
Robust
Strong
Ask
Opposite
Solid
Tend
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In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.
Henry Mayhew
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Journalist
Cholera
Fearful
Ran
Seventeen
Spread
Years Ago
Opposite
Appeared
Street
Seventeen Years
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One would expect that a surge of new automation opportunities in highly paid work would catalyze a surge of corporate investment in computer hardware and software. Instead, the opposite occurred.
David Autor
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Automation
Computer
Corporate
Hardware
Investment
Paid
Software
Opposite
Surge
Expect
Occurred
Opportunities
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I understand a woman who validates herself by getting attention from the opposite sex. I have a friend who is that to a T... Doesn't mean she isn't a good person. That's a funny character to play.
Cheryl Hines
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Actress
Good Person
Sex
Opposite
Funny Good Character
Herself
Opposite Sex
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When I was growing up, because I was a bit overweight and boyish, I thought I wasn't attractive to the opposite sex, but I have since met lads from my school who said I just seemed unapproachable.
Maxine Peake
/
Attractive
Boyish
Growing Up
Overweight
Sex
Opposite
Lads
Met
Opposite Sex
Seemed
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The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
Michel De Certeau
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Great
Information
Media
News
Opposites
Real
Reports
Secret
Silence
Statistics
Surveys
Everywhere
Things
Now
Opposite
Constantly
Talks
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I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.
Alex Kingston
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Actress
Opposite
Assumed
Cosmopolitan
Liberal
Notices
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Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
Thomas Sowell
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Economist
Idealism
Opposites
Self
Thinking
Wishful Thinking
Worst
Words
Opposite
Case
Either
Expense
In Other Words
Wishful
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People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.
Ian K. Smith
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Physician
Calories
Counterproductive
Fewer
Meals
Weight
Opposite
Lose Day People
Day Lose People
Save
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I have a music video I was in coming out for M83 for their song 'Claudia Lewis.' It's directed by Bryce Dallas Howard, and I play opposite Lily Collins. It's a pretty edgy intergalactic music video.
Israel Broussard
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Actor
Dallas
Edgy
Video
Opposite
Collins
Directed
Lewis
Lily
Music Video
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The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.
Jakob Bohme
/
Bitter
Cooling
Refreshing
Sour
Temper
Too Much
Opposite
Set
Elevated
Qualities
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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
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Talk Show Host
Night
Psych
Yelling
Opposite
Complete
Complete Opposite
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
Warwick Davis
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Actor
Dream
Average
Candy
Opposites
Time Long Long Time
Opposite
Time Long I Can
Average Guy
John
Sadly
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Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.
Henry Giroux
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Equality
Discourse
Public Life
Quaint
Opposite
Considers
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I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.
Rene Russo
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Actress
Sad
Men Women Age
Sad Men Women
Opposite
Younger
Considered
Older Men
Screen
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On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.
Dean Ween
/
Bed
Fishing
Grind
Opposite
Exact
Exact Opposite
Healthy Thing
Tour
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All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound. Hypersonic sound is exactly the opposite: it's 100 percent based on non-linearity.
Woody Norris
/
Quality
Audio
Higher
Linear
Percent
Opposite
Attempt
Based
Exactly
Higher Quality
More And More
Perfectly
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You can be born into privilege, or you can not be born into privilege. You can be born into the opposite extreme and into poverty. I think from there on, though, you really do have to make your luck.
Ivanka Trump
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Businesswoman
Luck
Opposite
Extreme
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I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a family feel around the set, so it was a happy show to do even though the subject matter was quite the opposite.
Carol Burnett
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Actress
Enjoyed
Subject Matter
Opposite
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I'm a hometown girl, and my personality at home is the opposite of the performer in me. But then, when I'm home and haven't done anything for a while, I get really itchy and nervous and weird-feeling.
Britney Spears
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Artist
Girl
Home
Done
Hometown
Itchy
Nervous
Opposite
Performer
While
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Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever.
Paul Theroux
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Film Writer
Honeymoon
Just One
Opposite
Magazine
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People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I like Chief Keef, so it's always super awkward. I just make music I like.
Chance The Rapper
/
Awkward
Opposites
People
Music Me People
Music Always Me
Opposite
Chief
Complete Opposite
Super
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Because I never set out to be an actress, I always feel so lucky and grateful. There are so many people who are really desperate to be stars, and it was completely the opposite for me - I fell into it.
Sophia Myles
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Actress
Desperate
Grateful
Opposites
Stars
Stars Me People
Opposite
So Many People
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Whatever I might have imagined a terminal diagnosis would do to my spirit, it summoned quite the opposite - the greatest appreciation for life itself. So I will never give up, and I will never give in.
Craig Sager
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Reporter
Appreciation
Diagnosis
Opposite
Never Give Up
Summoned
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