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• Within itself the soul sees all things more truly than as they exist in different things outside itself. And the more it goes out unto other things in order to know them, the more it enters into itself in order to know itself.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Order, Soul, Different

  "Nicholas of Cusa On learned ignorance: a translation and an appraisal of De docta ignorantia". Book by Nicholas of Cusa, translated by Jasper Hopkins, 1981.

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• Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

  Alfie Kohn

  Two, Excellence, Victory

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• All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Years, Different, Calling

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• I'm searching for the perfect swing. I'm searching for something that's not there. I tried twetny different things today and nobody else out there would have done that. This game is too tough. If I'd have known, I'd have taken up tennis or something. I have a chance. But if you're a betting guy don't bet on me.

  Johnny Miller

  Taken, Swings, Games

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• If you want things to change to different things, you must think different thoughts. And that simply requires finding unfamiliar ways of approaching familiar subjects. Ask and it is given.

  Esther Hicks

  Thinking, Different, Want

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires”, p.121, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• OCD, we discovered is a lot of different things-it's not just washing your hands, it's whatever you're obsessed with. It can be just the way you hold a pen, and you always have to have it a certain way or you have to eat your food, it depends. It's something that, as a character I thought was really interesting because sometimes it's used in a film where it is OCD and sometimes it's strategic.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Character, Hands, Interesting

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.

  Al Yankovic

  Different, Sometimes, Fit

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm working on a number of different things. I'm working on a couple of TV things and I'm working on a couple of film things too, and they're all very early stages. One of them I'm writing myself, one of them I'm writing with somebody else, and one of them I'm supervising a writer, and they're all sort of coming up at the same time and it'll be interesting to see which one kind of reveals itself first and jumps ahead.

  Neil Burger

  Couple, Writing, Numbers

  Source: collider.com

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• These commercials, I directed them all from inside the tracking vehicle, so I was traveling about 85mph most of the time, so there wasn't really anyone sitting beside me other than the driver. But, you know, yeah the agency is there and VW is there, which is- they're paying for it all and also because the agency created the boards, they want to make sure that you're not going off the rails in executing it. And also they can help, because they- it's a very different thing to cinema.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Agency, Different, Boards

  Source: collider.com

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• The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like it's the fact of an actor to constantly want to do different things.

  Song Kang-Ho

  Directors, Different, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• Well, I've just played a midwife but never for a second would I think that I could ever deliver a baby! So, to that essence, it's still pretending. But it's worked out ok so far, touch wood, because you're doing so many different things - if you're playing a lawyer or someone medical, you can dip your toe into a lot of different things.

  Christine Bottomley

  Baby, Thinking, Essence

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The truth is at Legendary we really make movies that we want to see, and someday I'm sure that won't work but - I remember, it's obviously a completely different thing, but our first movie was Batman Begins, and there was a lot of things about Batman back then, and there was this guy named Christopher Nolan, that seemed to have worked out okay with him at the helm.

  Thomas Tull

  Guy, Want, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm always looking for a chance to do something different. I don't necessarily want to repeat myself, at any time, and I don't want to just do the same guy, over and over and over again. I want to be able to do different things and to evolve and constantly try to find those roles.

  Colin Hanks

  Guy, Trying, Different

  "Colin Hanks Talks FARGO, Preparing for the Project, His Liberating Role, His Frustrating Character, Working in Calgary’s Cold, and Taking on Varied Roles". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 6, 2014.

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• I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.

  Michiel Huisman

  Soccer, Children, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's a different thing to just be a voice. It's liberating, on one hand, because you get to show up in sweatpants and with Doritos on your fingers, but on the other hand, it's limiting because it's just your voice.

  Adrian Pasdar

  Hands, Voice, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.

  Nneka

  Kings, Who I Am, Listening

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• A Christian in the world is one thing, and the world in a Christian is quite another thing. A ship in the water is all right, but when the water gets in the ship, it is quite a different thing.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Water, Different

  Dwight L Moody (1900). “Short Talks”, p.48, Moody Publishers

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• The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face.

  Juliette Binoche

  Beautiful, Thinking, Different

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• You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Emotional, Different

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• In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word, or phrase, whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction.

  I. A. Richards

  Two, Together, Different

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• The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

  Eva Amurri

  Character, Personality, Acting

  "Talking About Teaching with Eva Amurri Martino". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2012.

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• The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Two, Liberty

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• I was always trying to do different things to entertain people. And at the same time, I think, I was, whether subconsciously or not, trying to get kicked out of school because I hated it so much.

  Marilyn Manson

  School, Thinking, Always Trying

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• I think sometimes people haven't really quite worked out how to peg me, or exactly what it is that I do. In that way, I feel lucky that I can get to play different things because they haven't quite decided what I am.

  Miranda Otto

  Thinking, Play, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I was pretty spoiled growing up, creatively and artistically; we were exposed to a lot of different things. I remember watching my brother's friends struggle to get to the level he was at musically and wondering why they were having such a hard time.

  Stephen Bruner

  Brother, Growing Up, Struggle

  "Thundercat’s Touching Bass". Interview with Tempe Nakiska, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.

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