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"As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair."
"This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered."
"One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made."
"Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes above described? And after what manner are they inflected to make those Fringes?"
"I was really lucky that I had an aunt who was very inspiring to me. She was different than anybody in my family on either side."
"When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free."
"Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different."
"He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live."
"As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome."
"Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different."
"You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been."
"Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same."
"I don't have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film. I usually don't have the time. So the story develops when I start drawing storyboards. I never know where the story will go but I just keeping working on the film as it develops. It's a dangerous way to make an animation film and I would like it to be different, but unfortunately, that's the way I work and everyone else is kind of forced to subject themselves to it."
"What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange."
"We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies."
"I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school."
"Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly."
"I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales."
"The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything."
"Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . ."
