Opposed Quotes
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Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn`t. I don`t want abortion. Abortion should be the rarest thing in the world. I am actually personally opposed to abortion. But I don`t believe that I have a rig...
Senator John Kerry
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A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth
Jacques Barzun
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates
Subject: Excess Quotes :: Nature QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
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The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found
Miguel de Unamuno
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When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the...
Dennis Prager
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
Meg Greenfield
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[when asked for suggestions on how to judge acting] I have three tests. First, which dominates, the character or the actor? With very few exceptions it should be the character. Second, on film - as opposed to stage - we`re pretty much playing basic emotio...
George C. Scott
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(1998 quote on his career) With four children I have to maximize the work I do now financially. It`s like I have to do one film for financial reasons, as opposed to when I was single, or before we had all of these children. I find that I`m not as good at ...
Denzel Washington
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It`s still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women. I do a lot of smaller parts that I find interesting - as opposed to the big, splashy movies that you get paid more money for.
Susan Sarandon
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I never applied to go back to Cuba. They did invite me to the Havana Film Festival, but I am opposed to the regime in Cuba. I`d have liked to go back every day of my life. But in honor of all the people who have died and suffered under that regime, I`m no...
Andy Garcia
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[1987] "Robert Bork wants to be a Supreme Court justice. But the record shows he has a strange idea of what justice is. He defended poll taxes and literacy tests, which kept many Americans from voting. He opposed the civil rights law that ended `whites on...
Gregory Peck
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I think when you`re doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it`s a supporting role and it`s only you that sucked.
Leelee Sobieski
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The Classical principle is not that everybody comes away happy; but that everybody comes out thinking, which is a validation of ourselves as human beings, as opposed to the animals that go to a rave or a hip-hop concert, and just dance away in some kind o...
Robert Beltran
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(On My Name is Earl and the perks of doing TV) The best thing about Earl is the steady income. I can do films if and when I want, as opposed to doing a film I don`t really believe in because I have to pay the bills. I`ve never been at a Vince Vaughn or Be...
Jason Lee
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If I don`t need the money, I don`t work. I`m going to spend time with my family and friends, and I`m going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody e...
James Spader
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I`m not a big filmophile. I don`t watch movies a lot for a hobby. I spend all my time watching sporting events. Because, opposed to movies, you can never tell how they`re going to end.
Michael Douglas
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I want to be known for the work I`ve done, as opposed to where I go on Saturday nights...I like to let loose just like anyone else, but I don`t want to be photographed doing it.
Amanda Bynes
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Today I am completely opposed to small arms and what they can do to children. I played every role tongue-in-cheek because I don`t really believe in that sort of hero. I don`t like guns.
Roger Moore
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In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is, the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.
Billy Crystal
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It`s funny because I`m strongly opposed to the death penalty, and I don`t believe in `acceptable losses`. It`s complicated for me to play this character, because, unlike a film, I don`t know the end but I want a situation to arise within the show where he...
Kiefer Sutherland
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You know I`m like a total geek, right? First of all, I sit on the set and knit. It`s a very social hobby, as opposed to reading at work - I can chat with people and still be fully engaged.
Julia Roberts
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[On his screenwriting] "I always write from an actor`s perspective, which is writing dialogue that fits comfortably into one`s mouth, as opposed to dialogue that is strained and defective."
Tim Robbins
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[on his divorce from Ingrid Quinn:] "It was great at first, but soon became a real burden. Ingrid found it tough to cope with the fact that all of a sudden I`d become public property as opposed to her husband." [June 9, 2003]
David Boreanaz
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At a certain point in an actor`s career it is good to say to oneself "What am I?" and then figure something out. You could call this entity an archetype as opposed to a stereotype. I believe this conclusion of self is a good thing to stick with, and explo...
Crispin Glover
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You`re less likely to get the part, many parts, if you`re playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around.
Albert Finney
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You will see everything that`s in there. What is in there will change everything about how they live on the island. We`re erring on the side of giving away too much as opposed to being too vague.
Damon Lindelof
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You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it`s always just one person encountering the book, it`s not an audience, it`s one to one.
Paul Auster
