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Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor.
Meryl Streep
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I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
Marilyn vos Savant
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
Wendy Kopp
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I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.
Felicity Kendal
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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
Anthony Burgess
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.


Plato
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In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.


Nelson Eddy
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Thomas Sowell
When armed people from Hamas and armed people from Fatah are standing opposite each other, there is more likely to be a confrontation amongst them.
Ehud Olmert
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The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
Marilynne Robinson
In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.
Victoria Pratt
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At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.
Helen Fisher
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I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.
Sky Ferreira
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
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People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
Yoko Ono
I have always given money away. I haven't always been wealthy - the opposite, in fact. But I have always felt that I wanted people to share it with me.
Jon Huntsman, Sr.
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The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.


Joel Hodgson
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.


Ian Hislop
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While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.


Horace
There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.
Taylor Kitsch