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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. illusions of reality

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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

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I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

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Shape your world by doing a kind deed for a different person everyday.

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I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

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You can't expect something different from someone who hasn't done anything to change. Don't stunt your growth waiting on someone who doesn't want to grow with you.

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Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

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Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

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Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.

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I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that's OK, who wants to be normal anyway?

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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

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Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.

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I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

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Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.

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If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

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People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

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There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

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On the other hand, you have different fingers.

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I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

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It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

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Like a typical Gemini I'm changeable, I can be two different types of people. I can be very outgoing, but sometimes very shy.

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There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

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I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.

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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

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If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

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People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

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We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

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Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

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I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.

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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

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In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

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Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.

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We boil at different degrees.

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It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

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All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

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I am treated no different than the other girls.

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If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

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All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

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I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

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What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

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For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.

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People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.

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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

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The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.

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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

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Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

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Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

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Well, there are different levels of love.

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It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

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My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .

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Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

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I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud.

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Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

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The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

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If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.

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When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.

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My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

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When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

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As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

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I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

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The best part of my carreer is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone.

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Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

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The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

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The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

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Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

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Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

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If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

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You know, I auditioned for 'Titanic.' Sometimes I muse on what would have happened. That would have been such a different life.

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I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

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What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

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Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

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Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

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It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.

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Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

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The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.

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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

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