#opposite

Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#diametrically #get #know #known #lovely

I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#being #i #often #opposite #true

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite. ↗

— Tim Allen

#opposite #saying #smart #somebody #tells

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. ↗

— Saint Basil

#existence #forget #necessary #necessary condition #opposite

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#born #certain #charismatic #dangerous #either

We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#osbournes #probably #run #ship #tight

This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it. ↗

— Michael Buble

#be different #because #big #different #fame

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#art #down #getting #opposite #something

Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#chinese #chosen #depends #eyes #generally