Quotes About Divergence

We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all.

More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.

EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

It's not the worst thing in the world to look different from everyone else.

The more she turned right the more I turned wrong.

I am conscious that each film I do is in stark contrast to the earlier one.

There are stark, stark contrasts between myself and Jack Conway.

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.

At 17, I went to an engineering college, the entire reading was about fluid mechanics and steam engines and what not, so I drifted from arts, literature and even cinema, because in Aligarh there were a limited number of theatres.

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

People are less aware, however, of another source of divergent beliefs—the fact that the same issue or situation is construed quite differently by different people, even people with the same tastes, values, and orientations. As social psychologist Solomon Asch noted many years ago, differences of opinion between people are not always linked to differences in their "judgment of the object," but often reflect differences in the very "object of judgment" itself.

The vocabularies in the world add up, they do not overlap. Translation is something else.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

If you were to talk to somebody from Georgia you would understand what he's saying, he wouldn't sound like your next-door neighbor in Montana, but other than that it's the same language, just with a few little different nuances. That's just like country and blues, or blues and rock 'n' roll. They're the same music with different accents.

We all look at the same object in different ways.

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

People often assume that the same approach will work for everyone, that the same habits will work for everyone, and that everyone has the same aptitude and appetite for forming habits, but from my observation, that's not true.

So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren't you really in agreement?

Does everyone here grow the way you do? puffed Milo when he had caught up. Almost everyone, replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. Now and then, though, some- one does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to dis- courage awkward things like that. What happens to them? insisted Milo. Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else, said Alec thoughtfully, and I've heard that they walk among the stars.