Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noam Chomsky

In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways.

Noam Chomsky

If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.

Joe Mantello

I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process - who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they're ready to share.

Jodi Picoult

Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

John Green

You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.

Patti Smith

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

Nicholas Sparks

and there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family.

Nicholas Sparks

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

Mitch Hedberg

I use the word totally too much. I need to change it up and use a word that is different but has the same meaning. Mitch do you like submarine sandwiches? All-encompassingly...

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Life is composed of different inventions.

Mac Miller

I listen to a lot of different kind of music. A lot of weird-ass music, like weird-ass, old Portishead.

Lykke Li

I relate to hustlers who want to get out of where they are and create something different for themselves.

Lucille Clifton

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Liz Phair

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

Michael Jackson

I just don't like being on a lot of different things or being everywhere because I get kind of embarrassed.

Michael Jackson

Don't be afraid to be different.

Melissa Joan Hart

There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently

Michael Schumacher

With this type of thing there are always different opinions and mine is that it is impossible to blame either one of us. [on a crash with Heidfeld]

Marianne Williamson

I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.

Marianne Williamson

We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line.

Mikhail Bulgakov

"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."

Mark Krikorian

The effects of illegal immigration aren't that different from those of legal immigration —an illiterate Central American farmer with a green card is just as unsuited for a 21st-century economy as an illiterate Central American farmer without a green card.

Mark Knopfler

There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.

Naomi Klein

A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies.

Psy

Unexpectedly, I'm here now, so I need to let all the U.S. marketers know that Asians are not different. We are all the same.

Poppy Montgomery

There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

Kristen Johnston

And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.

Kristen Stewart

Maybe I'm completely different from everyone else,

Orel Hershiser

Being on the ballot is a lot different than getting in.

Oliver Goldsmith

If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their coming from different originals; and the varieties of climate, of nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change.

Margaret Atwood

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

Leonardo DiCaprio

That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.