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I was performing since I was a kid. I think it comes down to something physical. It's the use of your entire instrument as opposed to just playing an instrument.

Quote by Armand Assante about use

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Quote by George W. Bush about ambition, failure, hope

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is...

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

Quote by William Falconer about heads

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

Quote by Andy Garcia about children, sensibility

You don't always do the same things you've done the night...

You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.

Quote by Mick Jagger about night, being, things

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, ...

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about prudence

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

Quote by Don Johnson

In general, a persons' innocence is often diametrically...

In general, a persons' innocence is often diametrically opposed to how much they insist that they are.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about police, people

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need...

Quote by Ron Paul about privacy, purpose, society, need

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

Quote by Bill Paxton about death

Through Death, absolutely anything receives a connotation opposed to Life, but nevertheless, Life would never be Alive without Its Death which bestows on it its full shine, as Death wouldn’t be what it is.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about death, life

Whose life, in fact, Death’s or Life’s? I say this because, due to the mirror, we can talk about the Life of Life or the Life of Death, but also about the Death of Life or the Death of Death. No matter what we would talk about, one thing is...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about death, life, things

Man through his essence is a dual being of Good and Evil that are a part of man’s self that he can never chase away from him, because if he tries to chase away Evil to keep only Good, Man becomes an alien to himself, transforming the Good he leans...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about man, self-control, perfection, being, normality, good, good luck, determination, morality, beginning

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Quote by Isaac Newton about action

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