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In the postwar period, Americans turned away from quality as the principal goal of manufacturing and made cost the principal goal. Japanese, restructuring their companies, made exactly the opposite decision. Michael Crichton

Quality Decision Made Exactly Cost Postwar Restructuring Period Principal Opposite Goal American Japanese Turned Manufacturing Companies Away

I've played quite a lot of crooks and killers, and that's quite interesting. Then Dumbledore is the complete opposite, isn't he? He's a nice old man. Michael Gambon

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Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite. Michael Leunig

Technology Peace Opportunity Will Every Other Savior Earth Immediately Promote See Invented New Goodwill Practically Opposite Falls Very Hands Being Who Ever Thing Bring

I felt a real kinship with Steve Bruner. He's one of those guys that is so prolific that he has a hard time keeping up with himself. I'm the opposite and move at a glacial place. Michael McDonald

Time Those Prolific Kinship Guys He Steve Himself Felt Real Opposite Up Move Place Hard Hard Time Keeping

I think it's important to view the issues on the broadest possible reference plane. In fact, if you firmly believe in any issue, I urge you to read the opposite of it. Most of the time, it'll merely reinforce your original beliefs, but on the rare occasion, it might change your mind. Michael Ramirez

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Curiously, many Democrats have acceded to Clintonism not because of their cold practicality and political professionalism, but because the Clintons are the sworn enemy of the right. The Clintons, in other words, while hardly being left, have been defined as the opposite of being right - the enemy of my enemy being my friend. Michael Wolff

Enemy Words Political Cold Other Defined My Friend Practicality Because Democrats Opposite Been Friend Left Curiously Being In Other Words While Many Professionalism Right Hardly Sworn

There's nothing scarier than silence. A lot of horror movies lean on hits and score to try and create tension, which actually does the opposite. The best scares come from a desire to see the character overcome what they're dealing with in the scene. If you care about the character you'll care about the scare. Mike Flanagan

Best Character Silence You Overcome Try Care Nothing Scare See Scares About Horror Scene Horror Movies Tension Come Lean Dealing Does Opposite Score Lot Than Hits Which Movies Create Actually Desire

Iran has not invaded any other country. We have not threatened to use force. Just exactly the opposite of Israel. Israel threatens to use force against Iran almost on a daily basis. And it has a record. Mohammad Javad Zarif

One might think of investment managers as astronomers and CEOs as astronauts. The two roles are radically different with distinct personality traits. Like astronomers, investment managers tend to be introverted, skeptical, and very analytical. CEOs, like astronauts, are the exact opposite, typically being extroverts, optimists, and, well, leaders. Mohnish Pabrai

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Sketching is like dancing. It's process as much as product. You can turn your head off and just sort of dissolve into the now. Doing a giant, super thought-out painting is the opposite of that. Molly Crabapple

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy. Mortimer Zuckerman

Good Law Sex Exact Exact Opposite Opposite Lousy Decided Even

Religious life is an encounter with the living God. Sometimes that encounter is preceded by a kind of soul-searching agony that tries desperately not to hear, runs in the opposite direction, and frantically tries to reason itself out of answering the invitation. Mother Angelica

I do not go so far as the extreme male 'sexists' who contend that women should confine themselves to the home and children and that any search for alternative careers is unnatural. On the other hand, I do not see much more support for the opposite contention that domestic-type women are violating their natures. Murray Rothbard

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Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite. Murray Walker

Beginning Situation Exactly Exactly The Same Only Well Opposite Same Race Now

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You People Strong Say Solid Something Tend Robust Opposite Gains Ask Disorder Resilient Adaptable Fragile

Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model! Natalia Kills

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Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline. Nate Silver

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Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality. Neri Oxman

I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave the perception in the public that the war on poverty has been lost. That Africa is just a bottomless pit of despair. When, in fact, really the opposite is true on both fronts. Nicholas Kristof

War Sometimes Perception Poverty Lost Think Despair Alike Focused Has-Been Both Fact Bottomless Wrong True Journalists Leave Go Opposite Been Pit Just Africa Fronts In Fact Public Really Things

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free. Nick Park

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There's something about the U.S. and Japan: two opposite ends of the planet, two completely different languages, and yet, especially in menswear, they share this kind of idealized way of dressing that is so close to what we do in America. Nick Wooster

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