Opposites Quotes — Page 41

Actress, Director, Producer

“Hillary Clinton has a real history of uniting people, of being able to work with both Republicans and Democrats, of trying to fight for people's equal rights. Whereas we really see the polar opposite in her opponent.”

Real Fighting Opposites

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Malcolm Bradbury

Novelist, Academic

“To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.”

Way Opposites Groups

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Malcolm Gladwell

Journalist, Author

“For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.”

Love Opposites Phrases

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Indira Gandhi

Politician

“I said, I'll put on weight. And I started having massages, taking cod-liver oil, and eating twice as much. But I didn't even gain an ounce. I'd made up my mind that on the day the engagement was announced I'd be fatter, and I didn't gain an ounce. Then I went to Mussoorie, which is a health resort, and I ignored the doctors' instructions; I invented my own regime and gained weight. Just the opposite of what I'd like now. Now I have the problem of keeping slim. Still I manage. I don't know if you realize I'm a determined woman.”

Doctors Opposites Oil

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Ovid

Poet

“Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative”

People Thinking Opposites

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Florence King

Author

“Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.”

Character Football Opposites

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

“I don't want to make a member of Congress do something that that member of Congress's constituents would not approve of, or would not agree to. So in that regard, I'm kind of the opposite of a lobbyist.”

Want Opposites Lobbyists

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Neil Jordan

Director

“It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.”

Dark Journey Opposites

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Marcel Proust

Novelist

“A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart.”

Heart Opposites Type

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Marcel Proust

Novelist

“There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.”

Ideas Doe Opposites

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Lauren Oliver

Author

“Additionally, Liesl and Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most basic--not a paycheck, certainly; not an idea, even; and not an escape. Actually, it is the opposite of an escape; it is a way back in, a way to enter and make sense of a world that occasionally seems harsh and terrible and mystifying. (From the "Author's Note" at the end).”

Writing Ideas Opposites

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Lauren Lee Smith

Actress

“I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things.”

Dark Roles Opposites

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