Unlike Quotes
903 Unlike quotes by 768 unique authors
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Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith…
— Leon Wieseltier
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You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is…
— Elvis Costello
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My father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her.
— Giovanna Cau
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
— Barney Frank
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive…
— Jane Goodall
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Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.
— Stanislav Grof
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Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words…
— Harry Connick, Jr.
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Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
— Mason Cooley
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always…
— Robert Cormier
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
— Umberto Eco
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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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In my situation, unlike some players who retire because they have no choice - either teams don't want them or injuries have caused them to…
— Brett Favre
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I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.
— Larry Flynt
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What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so…
— Joshua Foer
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting…
— E. M. Forster
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Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must…
— David Hackworth
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Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that…
— Mark Haddon
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It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper…
— Hugh Jackman
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And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just…
— Allen Klein
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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the…
— Anne Lamott
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