#opposed

All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#being #could #difficult #difficult task #elected

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#answers #being #being alone #content #dilemmas

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#bureaucracies #changes #entrenched #fundamental #opposed

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#both #called #conservative #feet #firmly

The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#certain #certain way #going #got #hat

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#i #interesting #internet #just #me

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#i #initially #me #nixon #opposed

I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#big family #children #easier #family #having

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#any #being #broader #context #experience

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two. ↗

— Mel Torme

#arranger #author #career #directions #give