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What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace and activism, and we're the party that's going to have a civilized capitalism.

There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage. When you speak the words out loud, the effect is very different from when you read them. So one needs to do something new with a stage performance, not simply 'tell the story'.

When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

The effects of illegal immigration aren't that different from those of legal immigration —an illiterate Central American farmer with a green card is just as unsuited for a 21st-century economy as an illiterate Central American farmer without a green card.

"The Moderately Talented..." is just a commentary on the conflict that happens when a young artist girl looks up to you, but you're attracted to them in a different way than they are to you.

I'm really open to different kinds of music, I don't like to limit myself to pop.

I listen to so many different kinds of music - I mean, I listen to everything. I listen to everything from Bon Jovi to Taylor Swift. It just goes everywhere.

I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.

Every single day that you walk outside your house is something new and different and exciting.

We made our Moriarty very different to [Conan] Doyle's. He's Irish, and he brings all his charm, his twinkle and his humor to it while he's also terrifying.

Everyone interprets something in a different way, it's channelled through the human mind.

I know I'm prejudiced and I know I'm bigoted in a lot of different ways.

Any time you get a chance to do something different or get away from your appearance or get away from what people are used to seeing, I think it's always good.

As an actor, you always want to try new things, so the fact that they set it up so that you can be doing different things each season is great.

Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we bring a clarity of awareness in seeing what's just an ordinary thought and what's a judging thought that's pejorative or putting us down in some way. So, we first bring that lens of awareness, and then we can do all kinds of different strategies. We can inquire.

We're not as different as we think we are.

You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in an instant.

The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes aren't equal; they have different styles.

For the first records I really never thought about anything other than the song itself. I thought that this was what the job of a songwriter was. I was really approaching music from a very different standpoint. To me when I was younger the song was just the melody. I think as I've gotten older and have been recording myself I've become aware of just how many layers can exist within a song besides just the main vocal.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

Цomen, we think differently than guys. Guys, you know, are very visual. Women, we work a little different.