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"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question."
"Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions."
"Your true potential will speak as loud as your willingness to listen will allow it. If you simply breathe for the next 365 days, your life is going to be different, but is that the “different” you want to create in your life? You have to make your possibilities welcome in your life."
"I think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different."
"Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness."
"To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables."
"The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise correspond to the "mutations" of genetic theory. Some forms prove to be effective under prevailing circumstances and others not, and the perpetuation of the culture is determined accordingly."
"But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best."
"There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues."
"I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books."
"Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different."
"We need to learn to process things in a different way. I always think of everything in terms of energy. To me, problems represent living in a world of low energy. When you bring higher energy to the presence of lower energy, it dissolves it, it dissipates it, it can't survive."
"As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about..."
"Your intent to find a mate sends out 'strands of consciousness' however, composed of desire and intent. Like detectives, these search the world, looking in a completely different way than a physical sleuth. The world is probed with your characteristics in mind, seeking for someone else with characteristics that will best suit your own."
"For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy."
"Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different."
"Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death."
"I think we know too much about actors as it is and their personal lives and it's this information age where we're stimulated constantly by the celebrity buzz effect or whatever it is, these web sites and blogs and different things."
"You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way."
"You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different."
