Life teaches you it’s not where you come from, it’s where you get to, and work is exactly the same.
No one ever really ‘learns’ from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.
There’s so many ways you can play one chord progression that the repetition isn’t ever exactly the same.
I think for me, as a gay person, I can convince a lot more people to be for gay marriage by not screaming at them and berating them and embarrassing them and belittling them, but by showing them that we’re all exactly the same.
It’s surprising how you can behave like a 16-year-old in your 60s, or a 17-year-old in your 70s. You know, it’s exactly the same. You fall in love with somebody, you start worrying why the phone is not ringing and thinking, ‘Can I ring him?’
Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that’s what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.
I approach every part I’m asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn’t get it, or if he does?
Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.
It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There’s lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual… They don’t care about anything else.
Honestly, I am always shocked when I see myself in the mirror because I feel exactly the same as I did when I was 18 getting off the plane to go to Juilliard in New York.
I’ve never understood why someone does a cover of a song just exactly the same. If you do something, do it a little different so people have a new experience.
The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You’re handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.
I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns.
You can get a diamond which is worth 10 cents; you can get a diamond of exactly the same size, which is worth a hundred dollars.
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time – as with a sonnet – the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet’s health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
If I ever see someone from high school I haven’t seen since then, the relationship may not be exactly the same today, but I treat it as such. I don’t want them to feel I’ve gotten too big.
There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
You try and take every kick exactly the same, no matter if it’s the beginning or the last minute.
There are writers out there who say they’re writing a second series, and then you pick it up and it feels exactly the same, only the lead character is blonde instead of brunette.
Sometimes you really rely on the audience to have a good time playing live, and sometimes you could have zero people or a thousand, and you’d feel exactly the same.
When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.
My mindset in all three formats, in any situation, is exactly the same. I just want to get myself in, get myself a nice foundation to hopefully attack and dominate the bowlers.
If you look closely at ‘Breaking Bad’ and any given episode of ‘The X Files,’ you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
If you’ve ever been around a group of actors, you’ve noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It’s exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.
People transform in some ways, and they remain exactly the same in others. Often, the thing you’d like to change the most about yourself is where you will forever remain stuck.
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It’s bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.
There’s nothing effective against Trump. Trump is Trump. Trump is going to lie. Trump is going to act the way he’s acting. No amount of reason, no amount of criticism, no amount of anything is going to work to change Trump’s behavior. Putin is exactly the same way.
For me it is important that children be children. My parents felt exactly the same about me.
Tennis is interesting because the women are almost more popular than the men. In the U.S. Open, women even get exactly the same money as the men.
The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
If you’re making all your money simply betting on interest rates, that’s not a business. Flow is a business. On the outside, they look the same for a while. But when you dig into them, no, they weren’t exactly the same.
The qualities involved with having to manage are exactly the same as it would be for a men’s team. We are talking about human beings.
I hope we can all learn to embrace who we are & not judge people who aren’t exactly the same as us.
Superman looks exactly the same when he puts his glasses on and combs his hair… And everyone acts like it’s someone else. I don’t buy it. Batman has a proper disguise.
As an actor, I think the experience and the portrayal of the character is exactly the same. It doesn’t make any difference what camera is capturing it. You have to do it with the same passion.
Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.
If I was playing for my local club I’d want to play in exactly the same way as if I was playing for England and, if that ever changes, it’s probably time to stop.
Fundamentally, the way I work is exactly the same whether I’m making ‘Whale Rider’ or ‘Mulan’. And those two stories are somewhat similar. They have interesting parallels, and it felt like I’d really come full circle, back to a story of leadership.
Whenever I record more than two or three layers, it starts to get cluttered up, and you can’t hear the cut of the guitars as good. It’s hard to get four guitars to hit at exactly the same time and keep the attack tight.
Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he’s always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he’s important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O’Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.
With the right support, a deaf child can do exactly the same as a hearing child, yet constantly, they’re being failed.
However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.
In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, ‘Oh my God, I’m exactly the same.’ Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent.
Here’s the point to be made – there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn’t work then, and no one feels any pressure to change?
One of the beautiful things about a movement is that there are many strategies and many tactics contained within it. Not every participant in a movement is required to do exactly the same things.
