#oppose

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#became #between #comedy #entertainments #hammerstein

The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic. ↗

— George Soros

#charge #currently #discussion #first #first principle

I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#away #been #characters #four #getting

If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else. ↗

— James Spader

#being #bit #else #family #friends

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#any #changes #context #current #face

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#asking #because #between #both #cases

To oppose something is to maintain it. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#oppose #something

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value. ↗

— Paul Walker

#hope #i #just #make #marquee

He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#directly #humanity #opposed #rewarding #say

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. ↗

— George Will

#conservatives #define #oppose #terms #themselves