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• We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

  Asa Gray

  Book, Order, Ideas

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

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• I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.

  Penelope Lively

  London, Revolutionary, Walks

  "I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2001.

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• Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Keith Tester, Zygmunt Bauman, Michael Hviid Jacobsen (2005). “Bauman Before Postmodernity: Invitation, Conversations and Annotated Bibliography 1953-1989”, Aalborg Universitetsforlag

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• The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't.

  George Jones

  Saint, Forgiven, Sinner

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• It's funny, because Arrested Development is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of the next things I did was a show called Quintuplets for a season for Fox, and this was while Arrested Development was on. I used to go over and hang out on their set.

  Andy Richter

  Development, Way, Next

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.avclub.com. March 29, 2003.

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• You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Tired, Night, Flying

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• You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

  Nancy Reagan

  Feet, Each Day, Get Up

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. February 5, 2001.

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• It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.

  Miranda Richardson

  Resilient, Feels, Different Things

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• I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

  Forest Whitaker

  Years, Careers, Trying

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• And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.

  Alfre Woodard

  Believe, People, Rebellious

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• I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

  Bryan Adams

  Two, People, Three

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• I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it. It was possible to live through the decade preoccupied by the mortgage and the pence you saved on your income tax. It was also possible for those of us who saw what was happening to turn our eyes in a different direction; but what, in another decade, had been a trip to the clap clinic was now a trip to the mortuary.

  Derek Jarman

  Eye, Wish, Receiving

  Derek Jarman (1993). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Kind, Finished, Different Kinds

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• Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

  Lester Bangs

  Form, Dies

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.

  John Singer Sargent

  Book, Technique, Littles

  "John Sargent". Book by K.C. Charteris, p. 1231927, 1927.

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• As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.

  Alan Lightman

  Religious, Views, Belief

  Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.30, Vintage

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• We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

  Janet Fitch

  Block, Different Universes, House

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• Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

  LeVar Burton

  Book, Reading, Ipads

  "Levar Burton launches the "Next generation" reading rainbow app... And returns to 'community'!" by Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2012.

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• You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

  Terry Eagleton

  Long, Actors, Lines

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• I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.

  David Cronenberg

  Games, Guy, Directors

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com.

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• Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

  David Cronenberg

  Writing, Difficult, Originals

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• For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.

  David Cronenberg

  Hurt, Personality, Guy

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• The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.

  Warren Farrell

  Jobs, Boys, Emotional

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• So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

  Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking

  Running, Party, Leader

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• Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Two, Asking, Plus

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