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"It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all."
"It takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem."
"To-day is always different from yesterday."
"Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues."
"I feel really lucky that, in my career, I've gotten a chance to explore a lot of different genres and kinds of films."
"I needed targets, different things to go for on a daily basis—a distance on the treadmill or a weight goal. Without them, I wasn't celebrating myself enough, and I got really good at beating myself up."
"When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history."
"Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure."
"I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges."
"You should do what you want, but I think you should also consider wanting something different."
"Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain."
"Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts."
"In the end, failing to plan and planning to fail aren't so different."
"Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person."
"I love theater: I can do shows that are completely different from one another. Altar Boyz had heavy dance moves, but also a comic edge to it. And now I'm utilizing all my physical skills: jumping on walls, doing pratfalls and bits and huge takes. My whole show is basically lining up one bit after the next."
"No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you."
"If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days."
"Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word."
"I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment."
"I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me? A publicist who's been there eight times. Getting there as a filmmaker was a completely surreal, different, unexpected experience."
