English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
I’m certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I’m sort of the opposite of that. I don’t crave the spotlight. I’m still not comfortable even talking on stage.
Do you always do as you would like to do were it in your power? I find that circumstances force me often to act in a manner quite opposite to what I should prefer; I am, of course, judged by my acts, but do they really afford a true key to my character? I think not.
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you’re a writer it’s your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it’s the opposite.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it’s not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking.
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
I have no hips, and I feel like my body’s like a teenage boy’s. But I can have the hair long, put on makeup, wear a dress, and do the exact opposite as well.
You’ve got to admire my courage going into a picture where the dog is a star. It takes a brave man to play opposite one.
Self pity is the worst possible disease that can affect mankind. And if we do just the opposite, which is love, then we have God’s feelings with us at all times.
I’d been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
I can’t wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don’t have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.
You know the old adage that the customer’s always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty.
I think the public perception about asteroids is that they’re kind of metaphors for acts of God, the fact that we have no control over the universe. They’re always seen as these uncontrollable events. But when you look at the science, they’re actually the exact opposite.
For some strange reason, my gay life didn’t get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.
Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It’s very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.
I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation – the one is life, the other death.
I would love to have a part opposite a great actor – like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That’s my dream.
The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before – when in fact it’s quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.
In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it’s completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I’m quite shy and reserved. In real life, I’m a dork.
I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
When I started acting, I was asked said, ‘What’s your dream?’ ‘What would you like to achieve?’ I would say, ‘Oh, I’d like to sit opposite DeNiro and hold my own.’ But, you never think it’s gonna happen.
There are so many good roles for women out there, I don’t understand it when people say the role choices are fewer as you get older. I find the opposite to be true – there are less good roles out there for the hot 20-year-olds because the normal girl parts just aren’t interesting.
Newspapers and magazines have been valuable to us precisely because they apply filters to information, otherwise known as editing, and often the Internet seems valuable for exactly the opposite reason: You can get your news without a filter.
I was very surprised to get a reading for ‘Arrested Development’ because it really seemed to be the opposite of that which I was known for doing.
The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.
The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants.
When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I’ve found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I’m getting warmer, and that I’m more mystified by human interactions.
It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite – polar opposites.
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.
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.’
It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.
We weren’t dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn’t afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
My entire philosophy of teaching is based on the notion that when an artist finds a certain process really effortless, that’s probably what he or she should choose to do. So often, students take the opposite tack; they have no use for the skills that come easily to them.
Dad was that one person who, no matter what he did in life, he just took it by storm, and he was so passionate and just really lived in the moment. Whatever the opposite of a procrastinator is, that was him… and I think I kind of inherited a little bit of that.
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum… they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It’s exactly the same.
Certainly for some time, people used to think of my solo career as somehow a side project to Porcupine Tree. No. If anything, the opposite would now have to be the case.
I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that’s very cold and has such an opposite effect.
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
If parents don’t instruct their kids on the narrow boundaries of respectful behavior toward the opposite sex, their kids won’t learn it anywhere else.
