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It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.
Ani DiFranco

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.
Brandon Boyd

Great, Give, Movement

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!
Alanis Morissette

Family, Through, Goal

Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different story every day.
Marilyn Manson

Used, Story, Rumors

Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.
Miguel Angel Ruiz

Change, Best, Sick

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
Eric Hoffer

Desire, Perhaps, Intense

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
Henry Miller

Evil, Sense, Dead

I've always loved to combine different scents to come up with my own unique thing.
Jennifer Aniston

Loved, Unique, Combine

Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'
Angie Stone

Karma, Feeling, Song

The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.
Rush Limbaugh

Deal, Obama, Voters

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
Jimmy Carter

Define, Sins, Condemn

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone de Beauvoir

Oneself, Object, Passive

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
Keith Richards

Tell, Story, Everybody

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
Don Rickles

Alone, Yourself, Everyone

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
J. K. Rowling

Poor, Again, Idea

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
Quentin Tarantino

Live, Big, Might

I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots.
Tyra Banks

Enjoy, Fashion, Looks

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.
Guy Kawasaki

Smart, Wrong, Start

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
Jimmy Smits

End, Game, Hard

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.
Dolly Parton

Through, Play, Try

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
James Hillman

Education, Afraid, Everyone

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.
Tina Turner

God, Powerful, She

Minds ripen at very different ages.
Stevie Wonder

Minds, Ages, Ripen

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.
Sitting Bull

Heart, Put, Wishes

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.
Alice Walker

Understand, Cannot, Getting

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
Talib Kweli

Teacher, Whatever, Accept

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.
Jane Elliot

Country, Put, Appreciate

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
Cal Thomas

Change, Government, Society

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.
Tori Amos

Sometimes, Order, Departure

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
Stephen Sondheim

Best, Live, Why

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