Complete Opposites Quotes

• I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.

  Craig Ferguson

  Night, Psych, Yelling

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• I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

  Keren Ann

  Opposites

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• Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.'

  Criss Jami

  Responsibility, Opposites, Delight

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.129, Criss Jami

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• Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

  Hermann Hesse

  Opposites, Mind, Literature

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• The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

  Andy Warhol

  Opposites, Two, Commercial Art

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Opposites, Fundamentals

  "How to Parent an Introverted Child: An Interview With Susan Cain". Interview with Sil Reynolds, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2013.

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• All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Color, Opposites

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• I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

  A. J. McLean

  Heart, Cutting, Thinking

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• I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

  Marc Almond

  Past, Thinking, Europe

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• In the old days rank was not important - The complete opposite of today. You just trained

  Higa Yuchoku

  Opposites, Important, Today

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• I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

  Sky Ferreira

  Hate, Self, Opposites

  "Sky Ferreira and the dark side of the music biz" by Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am.

  PJ Harvey

  Who I Am, Opposites, Ideas

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• Everyone in this room knows that Venus is probably one of the greatest people on the tour. She's really great. She's super professional. Complete opposite of me.

  Serena Williams

  Opposites, People, Venus

  Serena Williams during U.S. Open Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. September 8, 2015.

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• You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite affect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.

  DJ Qualls

  Stupid, Opposites, People

  "A Conversation With Dj Qualls". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. April 4, 2003.

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• Most people think leadership is about being in charge. Most people think leadership is about having all the answers and being the most intelligent person or the most qualified person in the room. The irony is that it is the complete opposite. Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible. Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.

  Simon Sinek

  Intelligent, Thinking, Opposites

  "Why Leaders Should Always Eat Last – Simon Sinek Interview". Interview With Dan Schawbel, www.quickbase.com. February 19, 2014.

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• Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.

  Anita Roddick

  Country, Children, Mean

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• I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself.

  RuPaul

  Queens, Thinking, Opposites

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• Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.

  John Piper

  Passion, Opposites, Life And Death

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Liars, Lying, Mean

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• I've always been my own person. I don't do what people want me to do. Like, if you want me to do that, I'm going to do the complete opposite.

  Fetty Wap

  Opposites, People, Want

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction. I have to evacuate all psychology, to be less a protagonist and more a presence.

  Elia Suleiman

  Opposites, Space, Psychology

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• The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I did, or if it has someone else who I really have wanted to work with.

  Anne Hathaway

  Opposites, Trying, Roles

  "The Devil Wears Prada - Anne Hathaway interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I thought Victoria Beckham was going to be one of those pop girls, but she's absolutely the complete opposite. She's a working girl. She knows what she wants. And when she doesn't know, she really prepares herself. I love this working type of women. And she's a girl from - I don't even know where she's from.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, Opposites, Want

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• You shouldn't end a band like Westlife and not be financially secure to some extent, but I wasn't at all - it was the complete opposite. But you look at stuff then, 'Well, what do I have? I don't have money but I have a great marriage, three healthy kids, and I have my voice. I'll just start again.'

  Shane Filan

  Kids, Voice, Opposites

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• With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.

  Charles Grodin

  Opposites, Care, Smoothies

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