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"There are two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows. The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true."
"In Canada I'm not dealing with people who are bringing in baggage, they just get it. But New Orleans will be a bit different. If there's a group of people who have a right to be bitter, it's the people of New Orleans."
"Everybody's family has different values."
"CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created by our increasingly risk-shifting world."
"As you climb of the organizational ladder, you have to redefine your role in the value chain from player to captain to coach to manager, and for some, to owner. These are different roles and you won't be able to succeed as a manager when you're acting like a player."
"Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter."
"If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different."
"Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing."
"The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another."
"The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways."
"Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions."
"At least, it is encouraging to me that President [Barack] Obama has put Afghanistan front and center in this broader so-called War on terror, and that he is taking a different approach to Afghanistan."
"I like to use my own language. Political movements are like living creatures - they develop. Each document expresses the times, the different stages and is part of the natural development."
"When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life."
"What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that."
"The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world."
"To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine."
"It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time."
"Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall."
"Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories."
