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I like to do things that are surprising and different.

The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.

Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.

I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.

To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

The stadium here in Munich is the best of the lot for me. It is absolutely fantastic, especially the way it lights up a different colour according to who is playing. It's superb

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.

Every day is a different day in New York; there's always something new going on.

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

I'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.

I was able to make many different kinds of movies. They enriched me on many different levels.

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

I'd hope to reach any kid who feels apart from the group - those who seem to be outsiders, who feel different. Kids who want to reach their parents often don't know how to do so.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.

Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

It's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before.

I was different and people made fun of me.

I find myself eating different kinds of chicken each and every day, even if it's by surprise.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. Thats probably one reason I became an actor.

In Wales, it's eight different weathers in a day.

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.

Leadership is possible in all different ways, and in all different areas of life. Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.

Kids don't like being put into boxes, and your kid can act in different ways in different situations.

If I woke up and didn't have Tourette's syndrome, it would feel weird - not better or worse, just different.

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.

People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.

Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.

My personal style is really different from 'Lemonade Mouth.'

I like being forced to think about things in a different way.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

We are all put in different positions for different reasons.

When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.

There was a time when I was 312 pounds. And I've been all different weights.

I'm always looking for something different to do at the gym.

Everyone has different talents, different styles and talents.

There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.