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You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't do business with a firm who swears they'll do one thing one day and does just the opposite the next. You can't do business with a company who takes your goods on a cash basis and then pays you off in bum harmonicas.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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Author
Cash
Firm
Goods
Next
One Day
Opposite
Basis
Bum
Contract
Meaning
Meaning Of
Pays
Takes
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You cannot exercise and be amused about it. You cannot integrate the dying bug into your core workout and hold to the position that you are a spiritual being. In this way, the body and the mind are each other's opposite unto death, which is why you have to choose which of them you are going to follow.
Howard Jacobson
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Author
Amused
Dying
Opposite
Bug
Integrate
Unto
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Manic depression is a type of depression, technically, and it's the opposite of uni-polar. Manic depression is also called bi-polar disorder. Some people don't like to call it that because they think it makes it sound too nice, when the reality is if you have manic-depression you have manic-depression.
Andy Behrman
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Writer
Disorder
Manic
Opposite
Technically
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I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave the perception in the public that the war on poverty has been lost. That Africa is just a bottomless pit of despair. When, in fact, really the opposite is true on both fronts.
Nicholas Kristof
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Despair
Fronts
Perception
Opposite
Alike
Bottomless
Journalists
Pit
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I enjoyed the theatrics and the physical demands of everything that went on in the ring. But I was, initially, a relatively shy kid. I think that's probably what attracted me to hunting is that it was such a polar opposite of the other, and it was that opportunity for peace and quiet and to decompress.
Shawn Michaels
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Television Presenter
Hunting
Peace And Quiet
Quiet
Opposite
Ring
Initially
Polar
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What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.'
Guy Kawasaki
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Author
Minimum
Pages
Real World
Slides
Worried
Opposite
Reach
The Real World
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Writing is very much an emotional process; it requires you to be very in touch with your feelings. That is the opposite of what you're taught as a medical doctor. We're supposed to be detached and logical. Maybe because I started off as a writer and then became a doctor, I'm able to integrate those two.
Tess Gerritsen
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Md
Detached
Logical
Opposite
Medical Doctor Your
Doctor
Integrate
Requires
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It's no surprise that hackers working for North Korea, Iran's mullahs, Vladimir V. Putin in Russia, and the People's Liberation Army of China have all learned that the great advantage of cyberweapons is that they are the opposite of a nuke: hard to detect, easy to deny, and increasingly finely targeted.
David E. Sanger
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Advantage
Army
China
Deny
Hackers
Iran
Liberation
North Korea
Putin
Russia
Surprise
Opposite
Great Surprise People
Detect
Finely
Great Advantage
Increasingly
North
Targeted
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I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don't know it. They have no idea how incompetent or stupid they are. It's the exact opposite. They have the loftiest, highest self-image.
Rush Limbaugh
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Talk Show Host
Happy
Deficiency
Fries
Incompetent
No Idea
Order
Self
Stupid
Opposite
Stupid People Know
Idea
Characteristic
Often
Short
Exact
Exact Opposite
People Happy Know
Meal
Self-Image
Some People
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Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.
Junot Diaz
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Writer
Art
Beautiful
Confronting
Despite
Drawbacks
Engaging
Flawed
Mean
Reminding
Weak
Opposite
Quite
Consider
Spin
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The notion that moving toward renewable energy will kill jobs is an absurdity on its face. The notion that we have to live smaller lifestyles; not have the American way of life or give up the American Dream is just ridiculous. It is the opposite of the case; a new energy paradigm will create opportunity.
Marshall Herskovitz
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Film Director
Absurdity
American Dream
Notion
Paradigm
Renewable Energy
Ridiculous
Opposite
Lifestyles
Renewable
Smaller
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There's a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, 'cause I really love Patti Smith, Cat Power, girls who look so casual; that appeals to me 'cause I guess it's the opposite from what I do. But I can never let myself just do that - I always have to try and dress up and create something.
Bat For Lashes
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Singer-Songwriter
Appeals
Casual
Jeans
Opposite
Patti Smith
Smith
Wishes
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Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.
Caroll Spinney
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Behave
Bird
Bizarre
Inches
Sympathetic
Opposite
Exact
Exact Opposite
Identify
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I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!
Ike Barinholtz
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Actor
Dad
Buttons
Clinton
Election
Election Day
Illinois
Opposite
Bill
Bill Clinton
Loved
Senator
Coolest
Politicians
Guys
Hand
Hang
Local
Though
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It is true that there are some parents who have concerns about vaccines, but while we hear about these concerns a lot in the media, I don't want people to think that the majority of parents out there do not believe in vaccines and then most kids aren't getting vaccinated. In fact, it's exactly the opposite.
Vivek Murthy
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Surgeon General Of The United States
Majority
Vaccines
Opposite
Concerns
Exactly
In Fact
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There's no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you're invincible in order to do that.
Lester Holt
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Journalist
Experience
Empty
Fleeing
Invincible
Order
Scene
Seeing
Thinking
Talk
Opposite
Down
Freeway
Hurricane
Lane
No Experience
Spill
Toward
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In theater, you get to rehearse several weeks, you memorize everything, and by the time you open, you know what the play is. In film, it's almost the opposite. You do your work on your own and maybe have a couple of minutes to rehearse. When the camera rolls, you generally don't know what's going to happen.
Seth Numrich
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Time Work Your
Opposite
By The Time
Work Time Your
Memorize
Rehearse
Rolls
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My whole thing is that often times when teenagers are about 18, 19, 20, 21, they get this mentality that they have to be old, they have to appear older, they can no longer be seen as a high schooler, they need to be seen as mid-20s all of a sudden even though they're only, like, 20. I'm the opposite of that.
Kay Panabaker
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Film Actress
High School
Mentality
Opposites
Teenager
Opposite
Appear
Sudden
Teenagers
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I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.
Gabourey Sidibe
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Actress
Dream
Girl
American Dream
Beautiful
Beautiful Girl
Skinny
Absolute
Opposite
Beautiful Look I Am
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There's nothing scarier than silence. A lot of horror movies lean on hits and score to try and create tension, which actually does the opposite. The best scares come from a desire to see the character overcome what they're dealing with in the scene. If you care about the character you'll care about the scare.
Mike Flanagan
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Movies
Care
Character
Desire
Horror
Scare
Score
Silence
Tension
Opposite
Actually
Overcome
Create
Dealing
Hits
Horror Movies
Lean
Scares
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The dream would be to work with my two favorite actors, Daniel Day Lewis and Cate Blanchett. Or playing Joaquin Phoenix's brother in a film. Basically anything where I get to act opposite actors like these; ones who bring a certain caliber to their work and literally morph into the character they are playing.
Drew Fuller
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Actor
Dream
Brother
Caliber
Certain
Character
Film
Phoenix
Opposite
Act
Work Character Day
Actor
Basically
Bring
Cate Blanchett
Favorite
Daniel
Lewis
Literally
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.
Magic Johnson
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Basketball Player
Basketball
Basketball Court
Court
Guy
Intense
Magic
Prepared
Serious
Team
Winning
Opposite
Breathes
Wild
Complete
Complete Opposite
Eats
Himself
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I do not go so far as the extreme male 'sexists' who contend that women should confine themselves to the home and children and that any search for alternative careers is unnatural. On the other hand, I do not see much more support for the opposite contention that domestic-type women are violating their natures.
Murray Rothbard
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Economist
Careers
Unnatural
Alternative
Women Are
Opposite
Extreme
Male
Confine
Women Home Children
Contend
Natures
Search
Violating
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Miami is nothing like me, and that's why I need to be here - it's the opposite. I'm practical, where this place is moody, I'm stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and I'm materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - there's a quicksilver quality about this place.
Iggy Pop
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Singer
Quality
Flair
Materialistic
Miami
Moody
Spiritual
Opposite
Fundamentally
Interior
Practical
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Anguish over the loss of a loved one or feelings of helplessness have complex roots. But in the end, they make you feel bad because they adjust your brain's chemistry. Happiness and its opposite are both electro-chemical reactions; those reactions are temporary and ineffable and could even have hidden benefits.
Eliot Schrefer
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Anguish
Benefits
Chemistry
Helplessness
Ineffable
Loss
Reactions
Roots
Temporary
Opposite
Adjust
Hidden
In The End
Loved One
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To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.
Henry B. Eyring
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Author
Anger
Advantage
Denied
Generosity
Gratitude
Hurt
Opposites
Resentment
Surprise
Opposite
Added
Gift
React
Reasonably
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What we've been finding is people are afraid of happiness. They're afraid of happiness because they think we'll stagnate or we'll be blind: that if I'm happy now, I won't keep fighting as hard. If I'm happy now, I won't push as hard to make a better world. That's what pleasure does. Joy does the exact opposite.
Shawn Achor
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Author
Happiness
Happy
Blind
Fighting
Joy
Pleasure
Opposite
Afraid
Better World
Exact
Exact Opposite
Push
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The major rock instruments and classical instruments were designed for performance, for sharing the music with an audience, and then later people put microphones on them and recorded them. But for electronic music, the opposite was true - they're designed in laboratories, and later, we tried to put them on stage.
Jean Michel Jarre
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Composer
Electronic Music
Instruments
Music People True
Opposite
Classical
Designed
Electronic
Sharing
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I've heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for work, but the opposite is true. Unemployment Insurance serves as a powerful incentive for people to keep searching for jobs, rather than drop out of the labor force altogether.
Tom Perez
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Benefits
Labor
Long Term
Unemployed
Unemployment Benefits
Opposite
Altogether
Work People True
Drop
Work Looking People
Incentive
Insurance
Searching
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You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
Dan Hill
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Singer-Songwriter
Imagination
Empathy
Heart
Married
Rely
Sex
Years
Opposite
Touch
Badly
Hurting
Opposite Sex
Powers
Roller
Start
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I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'
Craig David
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Singer-Songwriter
Positive
Cool
Failure
Magnet
Negative
Recognise
Sides
Positive Life Cool
Life Cool Success
Opposite
Accept
Try
Both
Part
Too
Cut
Still
Off
Identified
Just Be
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Even with so many artists using auto-tune, there's still a growing group of artists rising up and going in the opposite direction, making music that's real and fresh. And those cats are getting back to the basics without auto-tune. And a lot of those cats are packing out venues without getting played on the radio!
Krs-One
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Rapper
Basics
Packing
Radio
Rising
Venues
Opposite
Artists
Played
Cats
Direction
Group
Opposite Direction
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I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office.' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.
Mindy Kaling
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Actress
Arguing
Fighting
High Level
Passionate
Sex
Smart
Opposite
Ado
Member
Opposite Sex
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It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.
Simon Sinek
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Author
Answers
Childlike
Curiosity
Good Fortune
Lessons
Opposites
People
Rouge
Opposite
Good Learning World
Pretend
For Example
Guide
Loads
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Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push a button, and Taylor Swift sings for us. It's the opposite in the wilderness, which teaches us constantly that we are not lords of the universe but rather building blocks of it.
Nicholas Kristof
/
Building Blocks
Surroundings
Temperature
Tweak
Wilderness
Opposite
Blocks
Button
Dominate
Falls
Lords
Sings
Swift
Taylor
Taylor Swift
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The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have hoped such free and open access to information would have had. It has instead provided free and open access, without the traditional media filters, to a barrage of disinformation.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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Physicist
Access
Filters
Information
Internet
News
Traditional
Internet Free Information
Opposite
Rise
Channels
Disinformation
Effect
Hoped
Provided
Ubiquitous
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I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.
Cameron Diaz
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Actress
Blonde
Mask
Opposites
Play
Thinking
Opposite
Believed
Bombshell
Deliberately
Offered
To Be Honest
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The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.
Tullian Tchividjian
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Pastor
Beautiful
Different Ways
Liberty
Opposites
Powerful
Thousand
Opposite
Gospel
Freer
Richer
Smaller
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'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
Bat For Lashes
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Singer-Songwriter
Communication
Barriers
Cliffs
Communicate
Husband
Men And Women
Sides
Vision
War Men Women
Opposite
Wait
Group
Haunted
Sing
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It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.
Weili Dai
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Experience
Women
Men
Science
Action
Adept
Engineering
Multitasking
Mythology
Patient
Pure
Seeing
Solutions
Support
Team
Winning
Science Men Women
Experience Men Women
More
Women Are
Opposite
True
Perform
Cannot
Collaborative
Complex
Often
Well
Possibilities
Problems
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Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.
Peter Thiel
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Entrepreneur
Computers
Amount
Complicated
Data
Different Things
Efficient
Enormous
Form
Machines
Plans
Processing
Simple
Struggle
Decisions
Opposite
Basic
Less
Exactly
Judgments
Making
Sense
Situations
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Today, the world is so awash in sugar - it is such a staple of the modern diet, associated with all that is cheap and unhealthy - that it's hard to believe things were once exactly the opposite. The West Indies were colonized in a world where sugar was seen as a scarce, luxurious, and profoundly health-giving substance.
Tom Reiss
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Author
Diet
Luxurious
Scarce
Substance
Sugar
Unhealthy
Today Believe World
Opposite
Associated
Cheap
Exactly
Indies
Profoundly
Staple
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I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the performance. But the Australian accent seemed to put them off. Now it's the opposite; they love Australians. And with my thick Californian accent I now have a problem convincing them I'm Australian.
Jonathan Lapaglia
/
Agents
Australian
Casting
Clever
Convincing
Switching
Thick
Opposite
Accent
Greeting
Seemed
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Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.
M. J. Hyland
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Author
Journalist
Lawyer
Spine
Opposite
Assistant
Cadet
Editor
Literary
Film And Tv
Magazine
Ms
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Acting is all about relating to the people on stage with you, even in plays that break the fourth wall. Clowning, for the most part, is the opposite. If somebody in the audience sneezes, I can count on it: I don't even have to look at Shiner; he'll have his handkerchief out. It's all about all of us in the room together.
Bill Irwin
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Actor
Acting
Audience
Break
Clowning
Fourth
Stage
Wall
Opposite
Together Look People
Count
Handkerchief
Room
Plays
Relating
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When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York.
Idina Menzel
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Actress
Enthusiastic
Reserved
Supportive
Warm
Wicked
Opposite
Me Feet New
Sooner
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Feminists who say that I switched sides because I am an opportunist should know that exactly the opposite is true. It's cost me a lot of money. I've gone from being well-to-do to being $70,000 in debt. I have done something self-destructive financially. I could only do it because I don't have to support a wife and child.
Warren Farrell
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Activist
Cost
Debt
Self Destructive
Sides
Opposite
Money Done Me
Feminists
Financially
Switched
Well-To-Do
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Conservatives sometimes catch a tremendous about of flak from inside the Beltway - and those groups can exert extreme pressure on those conservative members to try to get them to vote in ways that are opposite of their core fundamental beliefs and the promises that they made to their constituents back in their districts.
Jeff Landry
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Former U.s. Representative
Conservative
Core
Groups
Members
Opposite
Extreme
Beliefs
Catch
Tremendous
Conservatives
Districts
Exert
Flak
Fundamental
Promises
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Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.
Nate Silver
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Statistician
Decline
Facts
Opposites
Thinking
Time Good Better
Opposite
Invest
Direction
Historically
Prone
Opposite Direction
Poll
Stock
Stock Market
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Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.
Andrew Weil
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Medical Doctor
Attitude
Believe
Garden
Human Life
Mass
Mass Media
Opposite
Basic
Central
Closely
Creates
Discover
Examine
Forced
Trivial
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