Different Quotes - Page 188

The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.

Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole... He just has a different OS.

The use of the internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed...This is a different world.

Every movie I’ve made is different, but it’s because I’m different. I’m not the same person I was in 1992 or 1999.

If man is not special, if he's not deeply different from any other thing, then there's no good reason not to treat him just like any other thing when it's convenient for us to do so.

I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.

Much of the research on the Nazi era makes a science out of distancing oneself from it or conjuring its demons. The conceit is that people were monsters then - as if they were completely different from people today.

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different!

Relationships can be about yourself, they can be about you and your god, you and your people, you and your family. It can be about a lot of different stuff. And it is.

I always tell people you can take the thugest thug in the world, and if you put a suit on him, he'll act different, trust me.

We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.

It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery itself, and there is a lesson to be drawn here about how the times influence the writing of history, something that we should never forget.

Of course there's objective truth, but when we're looking at people's accounts of it, it seems the real truth lies in the accretion of all these different versions.

On the basis of my historical experience, I fully believe that mathematics of the 25th century will be as different from that of today as the latter is from that of the 16th century.

I've been approached many times by many different people, and most people want to do something that I write and produce, and I'm just not into that.

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

In the beginning, the energy involved to create came from my reaction to the work of other artists. The force behind this was aggression. The art that I saw was great, but I had to reject it, because I could not continue in the same direction. So I had to do something entirely different. It had to be so different, so extreme, that those who loved pop art, for instance, hated me. And this was my strength.

Let's look different! I like monster movies, so why can't I have Godzilla's face on my boots?

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.

What I need is an Urban Thesaurus. I know what money is what I need is 600 different ways to say it.

There is many different paths of a career. I bounce around and do a lot of different things. It suited me that hopefully I am prepared to do different kinds of styles, genres, or whatever you want to call it.

I work with a lot of women and yeah I see totally different... My two sisters were different, I have two daughters that are pretty different.