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A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.
An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a film.
Part of my family were ranchers. So you were expected to be quite macho. You weren't expected to cry. I was the exact opposite of that.
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.
Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.
Everything for me has always been opposites; nothing has ever been in the middle... My life never had anything normal or in the center.
In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.
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 the opposite going.
When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?
We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is forked.
Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.
Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.
The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.
Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.
My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.
In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way
God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.
I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.
It's been liberating to be able to play someone who's a bada– or promiscuous, because that's the opposite of who I am … It's like a drug.
What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.
A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.
The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.
I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.
I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.
And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true
Oneness is inner silence, which remains undisturbed by external factors. This silence is not the opposite of noise. That is inner Oneness.
It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.
After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.
Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.
When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.
Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.
Don't be so fond of what you planned that somehow to change it seems like a violation of your own choice and wisdom. It's just the opposite.
A lot of those people aren't their best salesmen. They're the opposite of a salesperson and I think there's something attractive about that.
All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.
I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.
The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.
Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.
There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way …like Holocaust deniers.
I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.
If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.