#opposed

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#compelled #explore #finger #fully #life

What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#even #ever #everything #opposed #want

Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#bourgeois #concerning #fact #fundamentally #initiated

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#case #corporations #environmental #every #hazards

Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art. ↗

— Brian Cox

#art #astonishing #because #color #director

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#allows #bring #continuity #experience #first-person

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#american #discussion #general #going #ideas

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption. ↗

— Evan Davis

#assume #assumption #behaviour #behavioural #deviate

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#art form #become #breathing #breathing thing #form

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances. ↗

— Robert Welch

#balances #checks #elaborate #feature #form