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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure. -- Fran Lebowitz
Mistress Mary Quite Contrary -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising. -- Roy H. Williams
Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science. -- Nick Kroll
Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books. -- James A. Michener
Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour. -- Andy Murray
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns. -- Hermione Gingold
Contrary to what people may say, there's no upper limit to stupidity. -- Stephen Colbert
Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher. -- Renee Fleming
Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary. -- Stephanie Coontz
Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books. -- Meg Rosoff
Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements. -- Karl Popper
Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being. -- Amit Goswami
Contrary to popular belief, going shopping is really about stopping afterward for cheesecake. -- Bonnie Jensen
Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn't something you earn, it's something you recognize. -- Mike Dooley
Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished. -- George Watsky
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world. -- Jerry Saltz
Contrary to popular belief, I have always had a wonderful repertoire with my players. -- Danny Ozark
Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley. -- William M. Daley
Contrary to the cliche', genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it. -- Steve Forbes
Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity. -- Robert Genn
Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics. -- Magnus Carlsen
Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich. -- Mike Royko
Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality. -- Kevin Watkins
Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded. -- Taylor Caldwell
Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking. -- Bob Hope
Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule. -- Gene Sharp
Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti. -- Randy Alcorn
Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs. -- Larry Gelbart
Contrary to what people are saying, you can't go by what people say, but by their spirit. -- Stevie Wonder
Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. -- Edgard Varese
Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
Contrary to what you might think, I don't spend every waking hour thinking about boys." "Just most waking hours? -- Rick Riordan
Contrary to many of the rumors and innuendo in circulation, I wholeheartedly believe that Obama views Israels security as absolute. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us. -- Kenneth Boa
Contrary to many of the rumors and innuendo in circulation, I wholeheartedly believe that Obama views Israel's security as absolute. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries. -- James Fallows
Contrary to most people's beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision. -- Shayan Italia
Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies. -- John Wayne
Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children. -- Tim Sandlin
Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry. -- Thomas Perry
Contrary to what you think, not all preternatural beings hang out at the local Supernatural Pub looking for humans and dates. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians. -- Nick Goepper
Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees. -- Alfie Kohn
Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve. -- Ernie J Zelinski
Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night. -- Jim Mitchell
You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power. -- Susan Piver
Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans. -- Rachel Held Evans
Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive. -- Paul Samuelson
Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable. -- Thomas Sowell
Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people. -- Michael Palin
Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes. -- Erik Naggum
Contrary to popular belief, the moment we land in Heaven we don't immediately know everything! If we did, we'd be God Himself - all-knowing. -- David Berg
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market. -- Barack Obama
Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country. -- Ari Fleischer
Contrary to popular belief, there are lots of actions on the part of Jefferson and Hemings that "speak" about the basic nature of their relationship. -- Annette Gordon-Reed
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women. -- Carlos Fuentes
Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty. -- Henry Hazlitt
Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted. -- Jacques Delors
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. -- Peter Ustinov
It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves. -- George Voinovich
I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost. -- Stuart Scott
Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out. -- Ethan Canin
Contrary to a common myth, while there are general guidelines, there is no exact 'right' way to run ... I am amazed by the many ways people move forward. -- Grete Waitz
Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time. -- David Benioff
Contrary to popular belief: Knowing where you are from will not really tell you where you are going. It will merely tell you why you are where you are. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level. -- Manuel Puig
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home! -- Ezra Taft Benson
Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-El, to save the planet Earth. -- Barack Obama
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. -- John Petit-Senn
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. -- Voltaire
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. -- Peter Marshall
When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. -- Confucius
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. -- Jonathan Edwards
As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist. -- Jan Hus
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. -- Enrico Fermi
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. -- Julien Benda
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter. -- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it. -- Confucius
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. -- Frederic Bastiat
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. -- Mikhail Bakunin
It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society. -- Paulo Freire
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. -- Virchand Gandhi
True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding. -- Ellen G. White
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. -- Octavio Paz
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. -- Marguerite Duras
The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself. -- Alan Moore
Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name. -- Randeep Hooda
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. -- Ralph Thomas Walker
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. -- Voltaire
Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation. -- Mariella Frostrup
In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. -- Benjamin Franklin
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Extreme complication is contrary to art. -- Claude Debussy
Faith is not contrary to reason. -- Sherwood Eddy
Heart and head are contrary historians. -- Jerry Spinelli
remembering and forgiving can be contrary things -- Marilynne Robinson
Every ideology is contrary to human psychology. -- Albert Camus
All statutes to the contrary are revoked. -- Paulo Coelho
To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary. -- George Herbert
Our wills and fates do so contrary run. -- William Shakespeare
Commit no act that is contrary to love. -- Leo Tolstoy
I can be as contrary as I choose. -- Julian Fellowes
Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact. -- Bertrand Russell
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I use contrary-ism in every part of my life. -- Tibor Kalman
It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness. -- Jeremiah
You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law. -- John Marshall
Alcohol, contrary to instinct, is not the secret to happiness. -- Mary Schmich
Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature. -- William Faulkner
Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved. -- Emily Post
History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles. -- Terry Pratchett
I'm not particularly fond of kissing strange men-contrary to popular belief. -- Madonna Ciccone
Atheism in not simply beyond reason, it is contrary to reason. -- Dave Hunt
Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary. -- Greg L. Bahnsen

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