Quotes About Against

I had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came up against anything.

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

I always did go against the singer-songwriter form. I think I've always had a lot of storytelling songs.

I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.

I don't understand why Germans are openly demonstrating against Islamization and radicalization but don't help the people who flee from such horrors.

It's very nice to be in a big fight against a top operator.

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

The future is a fight against a model of reality that is a monopoly, controlled by the powerful and formidably defended against dissent.

The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.

All your stupid charities have armed the poor against you.

In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set.

If you get into really learning about the roots of monotheism, it was utterly a radical cultural moment. The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it.

The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.

I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.

The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

I am strictly against a European superstate.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.