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I always feel like I'm warring with my womanhood and wanting the world to be better, and with my blackness - which is the opposite of whiteness.
Jessica Williams
World
Better
Blackness
Feel
Like
Always
Opposite
Womanhood
Wanting
Which
Whiteness
Warring
But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.
Jim Coleman
Way
Melodies
Mostly
Sounds
Opposite
Contra
La
Done
Starting
I met Toni, my wife, when we were cast opposite each other in a musical.
Jim Foglesong
Wife
Met
Other
Musical
Cast
Opposite
Were
Each
I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.
Jim Gaffigan
You
Parent
Lifestyle
Comedian
Opposite
Which
I do enjoy having researchers and writers around me because I am getting a lot of different influences now from the opposite sex, different races, people of different ages, who are helping write the routines. So I am seeing things from other people's perspectives, which I never really had to do before.
Jim Jefferies
Me
People
Sex
Before
Enjoy
Other
Seeing
Having
Write
Writers
Never
Had
Because
Around
Am
Opposite
Opposite Sex
Lot
Getting
Different
Different Ages
Influences
Which
Races
Perspectives
Ages
Really
Researchers
Who
Helping
Now
Routines
Things
As Americans, we're raised with this idea of, 'We're number one.' As an individual, you absorb and you consume until you skyrocket to the top with your money and your whatever. That's not my philosophy. My philosophy is quite the opposite in that there's limited space, we have limited resources, and so it's not about the individual.
Jimmi Simpson
You
Money
Space
Whatever
Resources
Philosophy
Top
About
Individual
Consume
Absorb
Idea
Until
Limited
Limited Resources
Opposite
American
Quite
Your
Skyrocket
Raised
Number
I am the complete opposite of my old friend, lovely John Peel, God rest his soul. He had rooms of records; I haven't got one.
Jimmy Savile
God
Soul
Old
Rest
Peel
Complete
Complete Opposite
John
Records
Had
He
Got
Am
Opposite
His
Friend
Lovely
Old Friend
Rooms
In some ways the fact that you are sometimes confronted with people who have such an opposite view to you on certain issues in many ways reinforces that identity that you have.
Jo Swinson
You
People
Sometimes
Ways
Some
Fact
Identity
Issues
Opposite
Confronted
Certain
View
Who
Many
My mum is the opposite of my dad. She's a very private person, very shy and totally against boxing. She never watched any of my fights live. She hated me doing it.
Joe Calzaghe
Me
Live
Hated
Totally
Never
She
Boxing
Doing
Opposite
Private
Private Person
Very
Person
Any
Against
Fights
Dad
Mum
Watched
Shy
We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable.
Joe Viterelli
Funny
People
Looking
Films
Other
Baywatch
Exactly
Unbelievable
Smooth
Opposite
Were
Transformations
Actor
Watch
The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.
Joel Hodgson
Internet
Television
Total
Inversion
Opposite
We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.
Joel Kinnaman
You
Creativity
Negative
Our
Favorite
Spirit
Something
Part
Since
New
Around
How
Opposite
Were
Been
Sitting
Done
Human
Stories
Break
Ground
Human Spirit
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
John Avlon
Politics
Physics
Action
Every
Follows
Equal
Reaction
Opposite
Lines
Creates
I just think the mood of the country is now that people don't necessarily want an elected official to tell them how they ought to cast their vote. Matter of fact, it's the opposite, and they want to express themselves, and they have a right to, and I'll respect their choice.
John Cornyn
Respect
Vote
People
Matter
Country
Think
Ought
Mood
Tell
Cast
Fact
How
Opposite
Official
Just
Want
Them
Themselves
Elected
Choice
Express
Now
Right
Necessarily
With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.
John Cusack
War
You
Trouble
Strategy
Way
Out
Exact
Exact Opposite
See
Like
Knowing
Without
How
Opposite
Cameras
Exit
Exit Strategy
Get
Rolling
Wanna
Where
Gonna
Should
Acting
Need
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
John Dalberg-Acton
Government
Democracy
People
Fate
Power
Every
Other
Absolute
Absolute Power
Between
Principles
Makes
Tradition
Opposite
Hand
Legality
Authority
Sovereignty
Depends
Choices
Based
I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.
John Leo
Time
People
Monday
Addicted
Spend
Those
Brooding
Some
About
Seem
Allegedly
My Time
Take
Advantage
Firmly
Principle
Principled
Opposite
Tuesday
Double
Then
Stand
Standards
Who
Switch
My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.
John Mahoney
Me
Class
First
Playwright
John
Cast
David
Known
Opposite
Taught
Little
Then
Acting
Acting Class
Who
Play
True urgent leadership doesn't drain people. It does the opposite. It energizes them. It makes them feel excited.
John P. Kotter
Leadership
People
Excited
True
Feel
Makes
Does
Opposite
Them
Urgent
Drain
Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy.
John Paulson
Mistake
Strategy
High
Exact
Exact Opposite
Investors
Make
Opposite
Selling
While
Low
Many
Right
Buying
I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.
John Sayles
Made
First
Way
Out
Budget
Well
Said
Opposite
Going
Happen
Again
Movies
Figured
Ever
Basically
Set
The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.
John le Carre
Service
Intelligence
Secret
Station
London
Park
Knew
Occupied
Opposite
Tube
James
Little
Rooms
The Stones were always exemplary of one of the best of all rock qualities: tightness. They have always been economical, the opposite of ornamental. Having a very clear idea of what they wanted to say they could go into a studio and make it all up on a three minute cut.
Jon Landau
Best
Three
Say
Minute
Having
Could
Studio
Clear
Idea
Economical
Qualities
Make
Exemplary
Rock
Always
Go
Opposite
Were
Been
Up
Very
Stones
Wanted
Cut
I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite.
Jonathan Groff
Gay
Say
Fact
Had
He
Because
Opposite
Been
Quite
In Fact
Anyone
While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.
Jonathan Sacks
Politics
Future
Economics
Thinking
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Spirit
About
Invest
Executive
Opposite
Salaries
While
Hard
Euro
Even
In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Good
You
Book
Words
Smart
Evil
Side
About
Clear
Like
Ideas
Talk
Opposite
Very
America
American
Just
Rhetoric
Which
Use
Grounded
Who
Now
Right
Bombs
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