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"In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic."
"The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It."
"But there is a difference between playing well and hitting the ball well. Hitting the ball well is about thirty percent of it. The rest is being comfortable with the different situations on the course."
"We're all - all of us - a minute away from dying. If you're aware of that, life becomes a little more precious. Also, you have a slightly different outlook. It's not so much "gimme, gimme.""
"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints."
"I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers... Jesus Christ did not say "Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right." The Gospel is something completely different. In fact, it is directly opposed to the world."
"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."
"The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction."
"I think every case is different. Every situation is different. People come on the F.B.I.'s radar screen for a variety of reasons at a variety of times."
"The tailoring may be a softer, more draped, but I don't believe it's any less smart. For sure it feels more relaxed, it's a different kind of elegance, but I'd never call it casual."
"Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest."
"There's been essentially the same analysis over and over again and very little allowance made for different views and interpretations and reflections."
"The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently."
"I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders."
"I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for many different emotions."
"By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound"
"The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it."
"I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement."
"You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are."
"Every force field is simultaneously a field of information because even physics now acknowledges that an atom is not only a hierarchy of different states of energy, or different states of force fields."
