Opposites Quotes — Page 46

JD

Joyce DeWitt

Actress

“Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.”

Desire Opposites Theatre

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JG

Joyce Giraud

Model, Actress

“Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.”

People Lying Opposites

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Hermann Hesse

Novelist, Poet

“The opposite of every truth is just as true.”

Opposites Truth Is

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

“The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.”

Men Strong

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JM

Joyce Meyer

Author, Speaker

“I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.”

People Struggle Opposites

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Julian Barnes

Author

“Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all.”

Opposites Tests

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Julian Barnes

Author

“I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in which only death appears as a pinprick of light: in other words, the exact opposite of the normal condition of life.”

Light Opposites

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Julian Barnes

Author

“He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.”

Decision Opposites Common Sense

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John Green

Author, YouTuber

“My head was level with hers as we stared at each other from opposite sides of the glass. I don't remember how it ended - if I went to bed or she did. In my memory, it doesn't end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.”

Memories Opposites Glasses

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ME

Michael E. Mann

Climatologist

“Keith's [Briffa] series...differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's [Jones] does from ours. This is the problem we all picked up on (everyone in the room at IPCC was in agreement that this was a problem and a potential distraction/detraction from the reasonably consensus viewpoint we'd like to show w/ the Jones et al and Mann et al series).”

Doe Opposites Agreement

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Michel Foucault

Philosopher, Social Theorist

“One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.”

Real Opposites Proliferation

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Muhammad Ali

Boxer, Activist

“Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being athletes. I'm getting more praise and credit for doing what I'm doing now on this show than coming here and beating five of your English champions.”

Boys Opposites Athlete

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