Vice Versa Quotes - Page 3

• The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Light, Trying, Vices

  Alan Ayckbourn (2015). “The Crafty Art of Playmaking”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Canada used to be...one of our most...most loyal friends, and vice versa. I mean, Canada sent troops to Vietnam. Was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?

  Ann Coulter

  Mean, Vices, Troops

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• I don’t think that actors are necessarily any more uncomfortable in their skin than anyone else. I suppose I feel more comfortable in my skin now, but you’re always playing a character, aren’t you? You tell different versions of yourself to different people and vice versa. Here, or in the photo shoot or wherever, it’s a representation of you. It’s not you-you. That’s how you get through it.

  Ben Whishaw

  Character, Thinking, People

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• I like playing on this team. We actually been doin' real good. Got a different mix here. Most important thing is you gotta keep pickin' up in paces. That's why we're playing contentious play. We got top names, guys can still hit in the majors, guys been out of the game hittin' the ball, shockin' it. Don't have no old, old guys. Not sayin' they don't get a good job done. Fact is, they've been vice versa. So that's incentive right there. It's been a plus.

  Mickey Rivers

  Jobs, Real, Team

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• I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

  Harvey Mackay

  Destiny, Hands, People

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• We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

  Tony Curtis

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.

  Gregory Maguire

  Real, Dragons, Evil

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• What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hero, Adversity, Light

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

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• I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that,in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wife, Choices, Vices

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Thinking, Interesting

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.138, Penguin

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• Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

  Amy Bloom

  Husband, Real, Vices

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• Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.

  Tom Robbins

  Land, People, Waiting

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• Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

  Dionne Warwick

  Men, Oil And Water, Vices

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• Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high.

  James Surowiecki

  Iran, Oil, Vices

  "TROUBLED WATERS OVER OIL". www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2007.

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• It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

  Robert Smith

  Clever, Ideas, Political

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I'm uncomfortable with politicised musicians'" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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• I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Men, Mirrors, Long

  "Jada Pinkett On Will Smith Open Relationship Rumor: ‘Will Is His Own Man’". HuffPost Live Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 03, 2013.

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• When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

  Sargent Shriver

  People, Vices, Economic

  "Sargent Shriver: A Candid Portrait". Book by Robert A. Liston (p. 29), 1964.

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• The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.

  Willem Dafoe

  Exercise, Theatre, Vices

  Interview with Jonathan Romney, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 1998.

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• I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Beauty, Men, Competition

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

  Bill Parcells

  Player, Vices, Problem

  "From XLIII: An interview with Bill Parcells". Interview with Nick Friedell, sports.yahoo.com. January 31, 2009.

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• Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

  Jon Meacham

  Running, Thinking, Umpires

  "Why Obama Shouldn’t Declare War on the Supreme Court" by Jon Meacham, ideas.time.com. April 2, 2012.

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• I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Mom, Hurt

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• Okay, so if that's not real, what is? What counts, to you?" He thought for a second, then said, "I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting." I wasn't sure what answer I'd expected. But this wasn't it. For a second, I just sat there, letting it sink in. "You know," I said finally, "saying stuff like that would make girls even crazier for you. Now you're cuteand somewhat more attainable. If you were appealing before, now you're off the charts.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Real, Mean

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.138, Penguin

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• In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.

  Robert Carlyle

  Attitude, Vices, Gone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females rescue males, and vice versa.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Determination, Numbers, Female

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales”, Knopf

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