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• Im now projecting my career in a totally different direction. I am going to work less-way less. And I want to work better. I want to direct again, I want to do more theatre, and I want to do exactly those movies that I want to do.

  Antonio Banderas

  Careers, Theatre, Different

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• We are really in a rut with the three-minute song. You know where it's going to go. If you're trying to get your message across sometimes it's wise to say, Why don't we stop here and have a moment of silence, then go in a completely different direction?

  Jimmy Webb

  Wise, Song, Silence

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• Mind is a crowd of many desires; it is not a single desire. Mind is multi-psychic, and all the fragments are falling apart in different directions. It is a miracle how we go on keeping ourselves together; it is a hard struggle to keep oneself together. Somehow we manage, but that togetherness remains only on the surface. Deep down there is turmoil.

  Rajneesh

  Struggle, Fall, Psychics

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• The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end.

  John Steinbeck

  Science, Differences, Different

  John Steinbeck (1996). “The grapes of wrath and other writings, 1936-1941”, Library of America

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• Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.

  Oliver P. Smith

  Military, Different, Retreat

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• I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Swings, Different

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• I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event. That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just contemplate it or do something with it.

  Howard Zinn

  Believe, Thinking, Justice

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.173, Beacon Press

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• Kindness comes back like a boomerang to those who are kind. Perhaps, its return takes years. Perhaps, the kindness returns from a different direction than that which we sent out kindness. But it will return. It is never lost.

  John Templeton

  Kindness, Positive Thinking, Years

  John Templeton (1994). “Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp”, p.182, Templeton Foundation Press

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• The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction

  Tony Benn

  Moving, Wind, Different

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• Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.

  Steve Jobs

  Past, Innovation, Experience

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• A dancer on break approached him. She smiled. Each tooth was angled in a different direction, as if her mouth were the masterwork of a mad orthodontist. "Hi," she said. "Hi." "You're really cute." "I don't have any money." She spun and walked away. Ah, romance.

  Harlan Coben

  Cute, Mad, Dancer

  Harlan Coben (2013). “The Myron Bolitar Series 7-Book Bundle: Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, The Final Detail, Darkest Fear”, p.237, Dell

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• Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father, whom my mother always critized for his cigarette habit and who always shouted back that she should feel guilty that he didn't let my mother speak her mind. Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. This was like my Auntie An-mei. Too much water and you flowed in too many different directions. like myself.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Father, Ideas

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• A strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere?

  Rumi

  Moving, Passion, Heart

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• I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

  Kirk Hammett

  Rocks, Guitar, Bored

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• With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Jobs, School, Lines

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• You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses.

  Nas

  Men, Missing, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was surprised that each expert cared for different images, and had varied suggestions for how to continue my work. If each expert had been my teacher, I would have pursued four different directions, and lost my way.

  Jane Fulton Alt

  Teacher, Teaching, Suggestions

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• I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Father, Ideas, Different

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• A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.

  Roz Savage

  Expectations, People, Perception

  "Oceans apart". Interview with Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.

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• My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [...] In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.

  Carl Jung

  Hands, Facts, Different

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophy, Years, Remembrance

  Immanuel Kant (2002). “Theoretical Philosophy after 1781”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.

  Errollyn Wallen

  People, Collaboration, Different

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• I enjoy directing. I don't know whether it's improving or not, but it's certainly evolving in different directions.

  George Clooney

  Different, Enjoy, Evolve

  "George Clooney, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Bob Balaban, John Goodman and Producer Grant Heslov Talk THE MONUMENTS MEN". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 3, 2014.

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• The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stories, Lasts, Firsts

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.155, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced.

  David Stern

  Moving, Eye, Opportunity

  "Q&A With David Stern: Part 1". Interview with Jason Friedman, www.nba.com. December 18, 2012.

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