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Dichotomy Quotes
Quotes exploring the pull between opposites.
This Beauty quotes set examines personal dichotomies, from grief sitting beside happiness to sunlight and family contrasted with darker mob-conspiracy stories.
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
On one level, I am a massive joker and can't take anything seriously, but on the other hand, I'm incredibly serious and a deep thinker, so I have that dichotomy within me.
- People
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The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.
- Family
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The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and innocence and then at night, darker, stranger mob conspiracy stuff sort of comes out. It seems like a storytelling engine. You can just keep writing about how those two worlds smash into each other.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm realizing that for so much of my life I had an older viewpoint; I saw things as an older person. That's common among change-of-life babies. So I have this dichotomy where I'm either, like, super young or feel like I'm coming to the end of my years.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
- Nov 07, 2020
My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a huge dichotomy between people who grow up with alienation, which, for me, was invaluable, and people who grow up so completely privileged that it breeds this complacency and lack of desire to question or challenge or do anything significant. Those are the types of people who become partners at the corporate law firms.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something undeniably oxymoronic about a 'successful' rock n' roll band. Who wants to hear a bunch of success stories whining about their success? More importantly, what can be the drive behind a band, what can they have to rage against when they are successes? That's a dichotomy every successful band wrestles with.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.
- Devices
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