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I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.
Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.
Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy.
The best way to battle fear is with courage. You have to look at the opposite of fear: Fear is scared of courage.
I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.
I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.
Sex and the City is the opposite of dignity. You have to have dignity for your body - this is with men and women.
The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.
Through your love existence and nonexistence merge. All opposites unite. All that is profane becomes sacred again.
The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.
A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house.
I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.
Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are.
Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}
The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.
Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.
Anytime I was challenged and told I couldn't do something, I would absolutely have to prove the opposite. And I did.
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.
Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.
Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.
The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.
My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.
Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.
When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite.
Sometimes, I feel that if you're a strong, independent woman it scares people away, but actually it does the opposite.
The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.
Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
I've grown up watching Shah Rukh Khan and never really imagined that one day I will get to play the lead opposite him.
The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.
Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.
The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.