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• The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

  Francois Rabelais

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• No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the opposite.

  Federico Fellini

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• Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

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• I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It’s 12:30 at night, you don’t want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.

  Craig Ferguson

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• I don’t mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing ‘Riding in Cars With Boys,’ I wouldn’t smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I’m the opposite. Inside my head I’d be like, God, I’ll explain to you at the end of shooting that I’m not this person.

  Drew Barrymore

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• There’s a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It’s like a breath of fresh air.

  Travis Barker

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• You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we’ve been having in LA, which is fabulous.

  Chita Rivera

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• Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

  Rollo May

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• We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset.

  Charles Sturt

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• Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

  Carol Ann Duffy

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• A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong.

  Charles Michael Thompson

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• What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

  Richard Wilbur

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• It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

  Abba Eban

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• You don’t want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

  Ray Romano

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• Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

  Hermann Hesse

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• For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite – getting something down.

  Julia Cameron

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• English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

  Michael Caine

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• There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

  Niels Bohr

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• Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

  Niels Bohr

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