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In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything. — Annie Baker
You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done. — Jose Bergamin
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in… — Ulrich Beck
I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids… — Randa Abdel-Fattah
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.… — Dan Auerbach
The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't… — Dido Armstrong
My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the… — Duane Chapman
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you. — Susan Cain
However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously… — David Douglass
Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it. — Joyce DeWitt
I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for… — Warwick Davis
Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and… — Alex Flinn
Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get… — Kate Flannery
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… — Sky Ferreira
To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I… — Cam Gigandet
Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite… — Jay Griffiths
I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in… — Jennifer Garner
That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out. — Jennifer Egan
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… — Lisa Edelstein
Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to… — Paul Feyerabend
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation. — Thomas Sowell
And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from… — Hippocrates
And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but… — Theodor Adorno
Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference. — Alexander Sutherland Neill

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