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The last time I did anything like this [special powers] was with the Narnia film with two swords, the same but different. -- Tilda Swinton
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same. -- Oliver Goldsmith
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing. -- Majora Carter
It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy. -- Bill Engvall
Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises. -- Griffin Dunne
The specifics of Cathy's and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same. -- Cathy Guisewite
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. -- Ornette Coleman
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. -- Flora Lewis
One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. -- Robert Graves
Of course the Japanese and Peruvian fish are different, but it's the same Pacific Ocean. They are different, but I know fish. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins. -- Eric Schlosser
Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws. -- Robert Kirkman
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them. -- Albert Pike
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes. -- James Randi
Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together, but no one speaks the same language, so you need some translators. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
As different as me and Sigourney look is as different as these two characters are. I'm not filling her shoes. I'm doing a part that has the same monsters, but it's a completely different movie. -- Sanaa Lathan
Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently. -- Marlee Matlin
God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion. -- Huston Smith
The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity. -- Mae Jemison
Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
Lamps are different, but light is the same. -- Rumi
The world is the same but you are different -- Cassandra Clare
We're on the same boat but in different cabin -- Hlovate
My ideas are all the same but look different. -- Maurizio Cattelan
I do the same thing every night, but different. -- Terry Bozzio
We're all on different paths but headed in the same direction. -- Marty Rubin
Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God. -- Ramakrishna
Sometimes we speak different languages, but our hearts are the same. -- Mykyta Isagulov
The methodologies are always different but the message should be the same. -- T. D. Jakes
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different. -- John Fire Lame Deer
Our path may be different but our purpose of journey is the same. -- Debasish Mridha
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Celebration has many different outfits but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different. -- Larry McVoy
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! -- Shimon Peres
My mother, grandmother and I all have different styles, but we share the same taste. -- Margherita Missoni
Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone's different needs. -- Terry Eagleton
What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same. -- Mark Nepo
My mother, grandmother and I all have different styles, but we share the same taste. -- Margherita Missoni
Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world. -- Willem Dafoe
We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways. -- James Joyce
All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people. -- Megan Hart
Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way. -- Samuel Johnson
Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality. -- Raheel Farooq
The essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different, but the goal is the same. -- Manmohan Singh
Love is leading. People think it has to be two different roles but it is the same. -- Cesar Millan
People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same. -- Rachel Cohn
The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same. -- Anonymous
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We may be different races and religions but we are all part of the same human family -- Dalai Lama
To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different. -- Chaim Potok
In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things. -- Casey Affleck
I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different. -- Oscar Wilde
Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I'm not different. I'm not different at all. The wrapping is different but the gift is still the same. -- Clay Aiken
Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations. -- Grace Cavalieri
Every performance is different, but I try to approach them in the same way and give it my all. -- McCoy Tyner
I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way -- Vivienne Westwood
Every movie I've made is different, but it's because I'm different. I'm not the same person I was in 1992 or 1999 -- Gregg Araki
Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same. -- Bob Goff
Animals and humans come in many different sizes and colors, but we all have the same loving heart and soul. -- Anthony D. Williams
We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant. -- Oscar Wilde
We walk the same path, but got on different shoes, live in the same building, but we got different views -- Drake
I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time. -- T-Pain
Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal. -- Danny Kaye
Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic. -- Theodore Sturgeon
It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing. -- Albert Einstein
I spent years crying in my diary. But I finally stopped finding fault with myself. We're all different, yet the same. -- Jasmine Guy
When we look at an object in a different way our perception of it immediately changes. But reality always stays the same... -- Sergio Pinto
Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But thats where an interesting conversation begins. -- Eric Schlosser
The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things. -- Rumi
I worried about playing God (in the movie Oh God). We're about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods. -- George Burns
When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days. -- Audrey Niffenegger
Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table. -- Dalai Lama
Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. -- Rita Mae Brown
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit. -- Stephen Hawking
I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough. -- Anne Roiphe
I'm still the same and I don't feel any different but when the elevator doors open and everybody gasps, it's an alienating feeling. -- Jennifer Lawrence
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been. -- Barry Zito
We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different. -- Albert Einstein
The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it. -- Laura Linney
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same.Death on her left.Devil on her right. -- Karen Marie Moning
We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us. -- Walter Dean Myers
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I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory. -- Martha Beck
People May Hate You For Being Different and Not Living By Society's Standards,but Deep Down,They Wish They Had The Courage To Do The Same. -- Kevin Hart
I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, same emotions. -- Andrea Barrett
Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things. -- Mircea Eliade
You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand. -- Chili Davis
Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing. -- Octavio Paz
Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly. -- Mitch Albom
Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways. -- Anna Thomas
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The fashion industry is completely different from the acting industry, but definitely the same as well, because there's cattiness and competition just like in the modeling world. -- Sara Paxton
The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes. -- James Randi
I think I'll always make music that sounds different from what is current, but I doubt that it'll sound consistently the same as what I've been doing. -- Miguel
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You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you... -- George R. R. Martin
The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes. -- Marcel Proust
On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I have worked with a lot of great directors but my favorites are all entirely different from one another. They don't go about it the same way. -- Ewan McGregor
I'll get kicked around for saying it, but men and women are just different. They're not equal. The same way that you and I are not equal. -- Mel Gibson
I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive. -- Eric Burdon
You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same... -- Vince Staples
My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same. -- Tracy Morgan
Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things. -- Muhammad Ali
I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything. -- Marion Cotillard
My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to. -- Ringo Starr
It's an obsession of mine, that different people, in different places, are thinking the same thing, but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
Actors are different. Some actors play themselves very successfully, but I come from the theater. Having done Shakespeare, we sometimes did three or four characters in the same play. -- Stellan Skarsgard
Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction. -- Steve Jobs
Bharat for Bhutan and Bhutan for Bharat. The colour of our passports may be different but our thinking is the same. India stands committed to Bhutan's happiness and progress. -- Narendra Modi
When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup. -- Cameron Russell

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