Quotes About Divergence

I want as much as I can to try and explore different roles and different characters; that's important to me to get involved in as many different parts as I can.

One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

When I saw Neneh Cherry singing on TV, I was so glad that there was someone of the same ethnicity - and with the same curly hair - for me to look up to.

Look at the way I look. Guys like me aren't on TV too often. Not on news channels.

And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

It wasn't part of my plan, that's for sure," says Peeta with a frown.

I love 'Sex and the City,' but it's also wonderful that there's something else other than 'Sex and the City.'

Everything I've wanted to turn into a film becomes something new and different when it becomes a movie... Each time I work with an author, I say to them, 'A book and a movie are different things.'

I knew in my soul that girls like me needed to be represented.

Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.

I try to do records sometimes that have a different bounce - maybe it's a Southern bounce or something.

Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.

If you go in Spain, you have to play with another style. The English culture is the English culture. If you come here, you have to play in this style.

Unable to understand why you think so, when you chose a different path.

All I can say is if one was tea, the other coffee. If one was smoke, the other cigar. There is absolutely nothing in common between them except they both fought to win.

We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

The divergence is evident in that journos worry considerably more about the opinion of other journalists than the judgment of their readers. Compare this to a healthy system, say, that of restaurants. As we saw in Chapter 8, restaurant owners worry about the opinion of their customers, not those of other restaurant owners, which keeps them in check and prevents the business from straying collectively away from its interests.

Your mind keeps playing alternative scenarios branching out of a main tree:

it is easier for your brain to detect differences rather than absolutes

mostly cosmetic variations

it seems that we notice differences between versions rather than commonalities.