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The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week.

It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.

I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.

I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

Reality TV is a totally different animal than the infomercial world.

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.

Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.

It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well; she's so professional and hardworking.

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods.

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.

People thought I was this doll that came to life, so I would have different people just treating me very strangely as far as I was concerned. They wanted to see if I was real.

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.

'Housewives' are a million times cattier than pageant girls! I know pageant girls have a reputation for being catty, but 'Housewives' are even cattier. But I do think that it's a total different world, and it can't compare.

One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.

It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.

In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.

I wanted stores that would feel like a comfortable room in my apartment, cozy and colorful and different.

As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am.

I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way.

Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

Seal Team Six is a different unit than the rest of the SEAL teams inasmuch as they concentrate primarily on one thing, counter-terrorism, hostage rescue.

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.

I am different - if you can find another like me, then I will buy you dinner!

Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty.

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

David Cameron has a different style to Gordon Brown.

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.

While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things.

I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.

I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.