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In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite. -- Nelson Eddy
I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy. -- Mortimer Zuckerman
My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite. -- Skeet Ulrich
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. -- Bertrand Russell
I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected. -- Mitt Romney
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite. -- Jason Blum
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much. -- Bill Cosby
The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite. -- John Conyers
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac
I went from such a testosterone-driven show to the exact opposite, because 'Friends With Better Lives' is run by the ladies. I imagine it's close to what being married feels like. -- Kevin Connolly
We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that. -- Victoria Osteen
The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals. -- Fred Upton
We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up. -- Malcolm Gladwell
On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy. -- Dean Ween
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy. -- Zadie Smith
Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that. -- Wale
I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know. -- Elizabeth Strout
The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff. -- Will Self
In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public. -- Tom Wolfe
The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power. -- Kenny Loggins
With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling. -- John Cusack
When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions. -- Jon Brion
I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don't know it. They have no idea how incompetent or stupid they are. It's the exact opposite. They have the loftiest, highest self-image. -- Rush Limbaugh
Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long. -- Caroll Spinney
Study the methods of your competitors and do the exact opposite. -- David Ogilvy
Law practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad. -- Mortimer Zuckerman
Lying, cheating, hiding is the exact opposite of the behavior of a man who's really into you. -- Greg Behrendt
Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that. -- Ozzy Osbourne
They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that. -- Hank Green
Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite. -- James MacDonald
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true. -- Niels Bohr
And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible. -- Stephen King
After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me. -- Elliott Erwitt
So many characters are governed by the consequences of their actions, and I wanted to have a character who is the exact opposite. -- Matthew Healy
Here's a foolproof method for keeping America safe. Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever [Jimmy] Carter says, as quickly as possible. -- Ann Coulter
Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels. -- Geoff Dyer
If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite. -- Chris Rock
Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal. -- Peter Drucker
You should show some respect for what other people see and feel, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel. -- Luigi Pirandello
Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy to outperform over the long term. -- John Paulson
Part of my family were ranchers. So you were expected to be quite macho. You weren't expected to cry. I was the exact opposite of that. -- Tom Ford
For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true. -- Nick Hornby
Whatever the majority of people is doing, under any given circumstances, if you do the exact opposite, you will probably never make another mistake as long as you live. -- Earl Nightingale
Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that. -- Scott McClellan
Yeah, like Bizarro Superman, Superman's exact opposite, who lives in the backwards Bizarro world. Up is down, down is up, he says hello when he leaves, goodbye when he arrives. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down. -- Fran Lebowitz
When it [NAFTA] was sold, we were supposed to get two or three times more exports to Canada or Mexico than they exported to us. It's been the exact opposite. -- Collin Peterson
One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there. -- Babatunde Adebimpe
River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like cheating people. That would be fair. -- Steven Moffat
If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold. -- Robert Ringer
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac
A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests. -- Criss Jami
I don't like the fact that people are supposed to think horror movies have a way things should go. I always try to do the exact opposite of what people expect and want. -- Rob Zombie
Indeed, nearly all attempts to exterminate a doctrine and its organizational expression, by force without spiritual foundation, are doomed to failure, and not seldom end with the exact opposite of the desired result... -- Adolf Hitler
It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite. -- Kurt Vonnegut
You can't understand the Electoral College unless you know what federalism is, and federalism is one of these terms that, in many cases, means the exact opposite of the word as it's currently applied. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
You can't understand the Electoral College unless you know what federalism is, and federalism is one of these terms that, in many cases, means the exact opposite of the word as it's currently applied. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the exact opposite of evolution. Therefore I call this the principle of Dissolution. -- John Hughlings Jackson
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite. -- H. L. Mencken

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