"I realize I'm not different. I want what everyone wants. I want what they all want. I want all the things. I just want to be happy."
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"He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money.""
"I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place."
"Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle."
"The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop."
"I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."
"I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language."
"Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle."
"Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories."
"Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron."
"In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information."
"We are lucky to live in a world made up of so many different kinds of people and I am confident in the direction we are going."
"You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different."
"Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay."
"Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances."
"A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!"
"..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else"
"You know, this dialogue is only helpful when we come, both of us, to a point where we realize that no dialogue is possible, that no dialogue is necessary. When I say understanding or seeing, they mean something different to me. Understanding is a state of being where the question isn't there any more. There is nothing there that says, "Now I understand!" That's the basic difficulty between us. By understanding what I am saying, you are not going to get anywhere."
"Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that. It must be magic."
"I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince."