"You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend."
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"The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation)."
"What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance."
"Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently."
"Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror."
"Music companies are not technology companies any more than technology companies are music companies. They're really different from each other."
"When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue."
"Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer."
"In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality."
"If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different."
"The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa."
"Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud."
"The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real."
"I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad."
"One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different."
"The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different."
"That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved."
"People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks."
"Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of the same thing."
"The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die."