#opposite

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls. ↗

— Rihanna

#backward #club #dressed #else #everyone

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous. ↗

— Chita Rivera

#back #been #course #fabulous #feel

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite. ↗

— Alexandra Roach

#me #opposite #polar #scare #thrills

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do. ↗

— Cristiano Ronaldo

#hypocrite #i #i think #lie #like

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#agitation #death #every #life #motto

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#fast #horror #horror movies #i #i tried

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#essential #experience #get #opposite #person

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#belongs #desire #everything #his #human

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#certain #characters #dictated #farmer #fisherman

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#capacity #else #empathy #every #lost