“The most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can feel it. When I'm talking to a group and I'm saying something truthful, I can feel a power that comes out of those statements that is different than when I'm just being glib or clever.” FeelsI CanDifferentMomentsActionPoliticalCertainPowerfulTalkingGroupsCleverStatementsMost PowerfulTruthfulJust Being Author:Barack Obama
“I get bored very easily, so I love doing different things, changing, doing a job for a month and then doing another one for six months and then moving into a different group of people. I love being able to stop. That's one of the greatest benefits we have in our profession.” PeopleDifferentAbleJobsMovingLove IsGroupsMonthsSixBenefitsProfessionBoredDifferent ThingsSix MonthsThings Change Author:Jeremy Irons
“America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these people will be told in the history books. So I always felt I had to find out my history for myself and research my roots.” PeopleBookDifferentStoriesAmericaFeltGroupsResearchRootsPotMeltingHistory BooksMelting Pot Author:Nas
“I don't affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see the connecting thread between all religious beliefs.” DifferentBeliefReligiousGroupsAspectThreadConnectingReligious BeliefBelief SystemsDifferent Beliefs Author:Madonna Ciccone
“I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it's easy to group everyone that's on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindDifferentTogetherOpportunityGivenEasyMy OwnGroupsStyleInternetMassCrossesGenreNicheDifferent Styles Author:Mac Miller
“Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.” ShouldDifferentUseUsedRaceRightsGroupsClaimsPrivilegeDenied Author:Desmond Tutu
“We scientists can argue forever about important topics like slightly different flavors of vanilla ice cream. Consider the silliness of this debate: one group of scientists found a 90% decline of big fish and criticized fishery management. Some other scientists found an 80% decline and started a big argument with the 90% people. Who cares if it's 80% or 90%? The real question is whether it's OK to let fishermen take most of the big fish out of our oceans.” PeopleIfsImportantDifferentRealBigsCareFoundForeverGroupsOceanArgumentScientistManagementFishesArguingDebateIceDeclineCreamTopicsWho CaresFlavorIce CreamFishermanVanillaReal QuestionsSillinessBig FishFisheriesVanilla Ice Cream Author:Mark Powell
“If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?” IfsShouldHas BeensDifferentMy OwnPleasureWrittenGroupsReaderShould HaveShould Have Been Author:James Arthur
“You ever mix two different groups of friends? That can be stressful. You always feel like you have to prep 'em. You're like, "These people over here, uh, they don't think I drink. And don't be thrown by my British accent."” PeopleThinkingFeelsTwoDifferentFunnyComedyGroupsLike YouDrinkBritishThrownEmsAccentsStressfulPrepsGroup Of Friends Author:Jim Gaffigan
“As an outsider myself, I always mixed myself with different groups...I've never been afraid to go into a different space and relate to those people, because I don't have a place where I belong and that means I belong everywhere.” PeopleMeanDifferentSpaceGroupsRelateOutsiders Author:Trevor Noah
“Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies.” PeopleWayMeanDifferentSocialTechnologyGroupsListeningNew WaysVolumeDifferent PlaceNew MusicSocial Groups Author:Brian Eno
“My solo album is different from the Black Eyed Peas albums because I'm a singer first and foremost. There are more ballads and more intimacy between me and the listener because sometimes when you're in a group you don't have space to air out your dirty laundry.” FirstsDifferentSometimesBlackSpaceGroupsAirAlbumsSingersIntimacyDirtyListenersSoloLaundryBalladsPeasDirty LaundryBlack Eyed Peas Author:Fergie
“In accordance to the principles of doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.” IfsDifferentWarRealMatterPastEffortPrinciplesPovertyGroupsSubjectsObjectsIgnoranceVictoryBasesStructureEastVersionsMeant To BeAsiaRulingStarvationEast Asia Author:Michael Moore
“It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?” WayMindLooksDoeDifferentEasySoundOne ThingGroupsShadowOrganizationMetaphorFamiliarVampireAgendasMisunderstood Author:Alan Ball
“I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.” DifferentCountryGrowsCitiesGrowing UpGroupsEconomicGrewTypeLuckyGrew UpNeighborhoodDiverseEthnic GroupsDifferent Types Of MusicEconomic Status Author:Mike Posner
“People go through different stages of their lives at different times. If you're out of sync with your friend group, that gets exploded once everyone starts having kids because they just have to deal with different stuff that you don't really relate to.” PeopleIfsDifferentKidsStuffDealsGroupsStageRelateDifferent TimesHaving KidsSync Author:Jon Hamm
“In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.” WritingHas BeensDifferentMy OwnFictionGroupsWovenFiction WritingStrands Author:Alan Lightman
“There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which every single notion receives a separate and different name from each group, and in which important work has been triplicated or quadruplicated, while still other important work is delayed by the unavailability in one field of results that may have already become classical in the next field.” MayHas BeensStillsImportantDifferentNextNamesSidesResultsGroupsFieldsPureMathematicsNotionStatisticsEngineeringElectricalDelayedDifferent SidesImportant WorkDifferent NamesElectrical Engineering Author:Norbert Wiener
“Administrators tend to lump Asians in Chicago into one group, not understanding that these kids would be fighting each other, the Cambodians and the Vietnamese. We started a thing called cultural gift sharing, where everyone comes and says what his culture is, so the teachers and the administrators could understand they are different.” DifferentWould BeKidsCultureFightingUnderstandingTeacherGroupsChicagoLumpsVietnameseAdministratorsFighting Each Other Author:Malik Yusef
“Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.” ThinkingHumansDifferentBodyIndividualChristianityGroupsMembersMereListsOrgansItemsContributing Book:Mere Christianity Source: Mere Christianity
“Hamas murders not only Israelis, but also Palestinians whose political stance is different from that which its group promotes; that is, its radical religious outlook in which Islam is the solution to the world's problems.” WorldDifferentProblemPoliticalReligiousGroupsSolutionsMurderIslamRadicalPalestinianOutlookStanceHamasRadical Islam Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef
“You know, being Jewish is problematic. Most people really don't know what exactly it means to be a Jew. We belong to a community of suffering, and that's what binds us together. But we are also extremely diverse. That's something I wish people who hate Jews as a group because they think they're so different would understand. We're also completely different within our own group! Essentially, we're just part of a community that has suffered a great deal, and not just in the Holocaust.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMeanDifferentTogetherSufferingHateWishCommunityDealsGroupsJewHolocaustDiverse Author:Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
“In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the earth, which had a certain nobility of presence, but is very different from the materials we have now.” WorldWayKindDifferentSometimesEarthFormCertainGroupsConditionsMaterialsCreatingPatternsArchitectureAuthenticityRelevantNobilityScarceTextilesMaterialityHybridity Author:David Adjaye
“You ever notice that? Any time you see two groups of people who really hate each other, chances are good they're wearing different kind of hats. Keep an eye on that, it might be important.” PeopleKindTwoImportantDifferentMightEyeHateChanceGroupsHatsDifferent KindsChances Are Author:George Carlin
“Therefore, the two processes, that of science and that of art, are not very different. Both science and art form in the course of the centuries a human language by which we can speak about the more remote parts of reality, and the coherent sets of concepts as well as the different styles of art are different words or groups of words in this language.” HumansWellsArtTwoDifferentRealityFormCoursesSpeakLanguageProcessGroupsCenturyStyleConceptsArt And ScienceDifferent StylesHuman Language Author:Werner Heisenberg
“Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups?” IdeasDifferentCountryInterestGroupsCarDollarsVariousChinaGood IdeasElectricTaxpayersInterest GroupsFinlandWindmillsElectric Car Author:Paul Ryan
“Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity is often masked when your in a group because laughter is contagious.” PeopleDifferentIndividualGroupsTypeLaughterSubjectiveDifferent PeoplesContagiousSubjectivityDifferent Times Author:Robert Mankoff
“There's over 100 species of lemurs. Each is a little bit different in their social structure except for one thing: they are all female dominant. The females are the leaders. They are the ones that call the shots. When you watch a group, you can see the females are the first one to say “We’re going to move.” Then she moves off and everybody just follows.” FirstsLittlesDifferentMovingSocialBitsLeaderWatchesOne ThingGroupsLittle BitShotsFemaleStructureSpeciesDominantSocial StructureLemurs Author:Patricia Wright
“Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line, 'How many years can a people exist, before they're allowed to be free?' in a prison yard for political prisoners in El Salvador; if you have sung it to a group of union organizers, who have all been in jail, in South Korea; if you've sung to Jews in the Soviet Union who have been refused exit visas; if you've sung it with Bishop Tutu protesting apartheid, the song breathes, it lives, it has a contemporary currency.” PeopleIfsYearsHas BeensDifferentPoliticalSongLinesGroupsWindSingingPrisonUnionsSouthJewBreatheContemporaryJailPrisonerSovietCurrencyYardsSoviet UnionKoreaExitBishopsApartheidVisaOrganizerSouth KoreaPolitical PrisonersEl SalvadorDifferent Meanings Author:Mary Travers
“People expect your life to change completely. The main difference is I can get work now. I can do my hobby as a job. It's great. It's a privilege. But in terms of the rest of the stuff, I still got all the same group of friends I always had. I don't do anything different. We still go to the same dirty bars and do the same things. So nothing really changes.” PeopleStillsI CanDifferentJobsStuffTermCan DoDifferencesGroupsPrivilegeBarsDirtyHobbiesGroup Of Friends Author:Jeremy Irvine
“Anytime you get a group of people, they're going to have different ideas and they're going to want to approach situations in different ways.” PeopleWayWantIdeasDifferentSituationGroupsApproachDifferent WaysDifferent Ideas Author:Bobby Morley
“Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.” DifferentCharacterGovernmentAgeGroupsResourcesClaimsProtectionAdvertisingVulnerableConsumersVulnerabilityGuaranteesStationsQuantityVaryAdvertisementsConsumer Protection Book:Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society Source: Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society
“If you are a minority or an interest group, the Democrats will hold the debate at your house. Whereas Republicans take a slightly different approach: they have a big tent - you're just not allowed in it.” IfsDifferentBigsHouseInterestGroupsRepublicanApproachDemocratDebateMinoritiesTentsInterest GroupsDifferent Approach Author:Jon Stewart
“Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.” WantDifferentCountrySometimesPoliticalPartyGroupsBeatsFactorsIranPolitical PartiesMonarchyDisadvantagesUnifyingEthnic GroupsDifferent Religions Author:Farah Diba
“I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from being in the music business as a teenager in a girl group to doing Broadway.” WantDifferentGirlPleasureCareersGroupsAreasEntertainmentTeenagerBranchesBroadwayMusic BusinessGirl Groups Author:Naturi Naughton
“Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction of becoming skilled at something. It almost doesn't matter what the terrain is. There is a deep, soul-feeding resonance in mastery itself, whether in teaching, writing a complicated software program, coaching a baseball team, or marshalling a group of people to start a new business.” PeopleWritingTwoDifferentSoulMatterGroupsTeamTeachingBecomingProgramBaseballSatisfactionComplicatedCoachingSoftwareMasteryFeedingResonanceTerrainNew BusinessBaseball TeamDeep SoulTeaching Writing Author:Atul Gawande
“I think you get to see, through the different cult members, why people are attracted to a group like this. Everyone is there for a different reason and from a different background. That was part of what was interesting for us, in researching cults and exploring it. A lot of this happens in California.” PeopleThinkingDifferentReasonHappensInterestingGroupsMembersBackgroundsCaliforniaExploringCultDifferent Backgrounds Author:Brit Marling
“After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.” NeedsShouldDifferentProblemOrderNaturalUnitedViewsEnemyGroupsRevolutionSolutionsShould HaveReformRevolutionarySplitsDialecticsDifferent ViewsSortingSorting Out Author:John Lennon
“I just look at it as a real group activity when you are making movies. There are so many different artists doing so many different things, and they are all interconnected. So I like to see what everybody else is going to bring to the table before I make up my mind too much about anything.” MindLooksDifferentRealArtistToo MuchGroupsActivityTablesDifferent ThingsInterconnected Author:Michael Shannon
“A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.” DifferentWarPastEffortPrinciplesPovertyGroupsSubjectsObjectsIgnoranceVictoryBasesStructureEastVersionsAsiaRulingStarvationEast Asia Author:George Orwell
“My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.” WayLooksDifferentHardDecisionUnitedGroupsMomCharityMy MomFundPoolHard DecisionUnited Way Author:Bill Gates
“The most surprising thing to me is what an incredibly intense effort it's been to create a world from the ground up. I had run a show that had already existed and had been created by the show-runner, Meredith [Stiehm]. It's a very different experience to come in at ground zero and meet people and assemble the cast and crew. As a group and as a family, we're creating this world.” PeopleWorldDifferentShowsRunningEffortGroupsThis WorldCreatingCastsIntenseZeroSurprisingCrewRunnersDifferent ExperiencesGround ZeroSurprising Things Author:Veena Sud
“I mean I feel like we've shot all these different movies. Like the first 2 weeks of shooting was all Steve Stills apartment and band rehearsal, you know? And so it was like this tiny little group of people and small set comparatively and it just looked like a Toronto apartment. And then we sort of kept ramping up further and further until now we're here in this giant like craziest set I've ever seen with LCD crazy lights that go....you know?” PeopleKnowsFeelsFirstsMeanLittlesStillsDifferentLightGroupsWeekCrazyBandShotsTinyShootingGiantsApartmentRehearsalTorontoCraziest Author:Alison Pill
“The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are geniuses. If they had grown up with a different group of people, they could've been performance artists at Bard College, and people would be writing papers about them.” PeopleIfsWritingDifferentHardWould BeArtistGuyLaughingGroupsCollegeGeniusPaperPerformancesHonestlyPapersJackassesBards Author:Louis C. K.
“I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to a form for the surreal. I have been called a preacher - but, in reality, I'm more generally philosophical. I have never made an abstracted photograph without content. An educated background in Zen influences all of my photographs. It has been said that my work resembles, more closely than any photographer, Le Douanier Rousseau - working in a fairly isolated area and feeding mostly on myself - I feel that I am a primitive photographer.” FeelsHas BeensMadeSaidDifferentRealityFormGroupsInfluenceAreasPhilosophicalPhotographerPhotographBackgroundsEducatedMannersIsolatedPreacherPrimitiveFeedingSurreal Author:Ralph Eugene Meatyard
“I believe people have different ways of approaching the Word. For me, it's metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ died and interpreted by specific groups. I read the gospels that aren't included in the Bible. These make me feel good about calling myself a Christian.” PeopleWayFeelsBelieveLongDifferentChristianI BelieveChristWrittenGroupsCallingLong TimeDiedMetaphorFeel GoodDifferent Ways Author:Jane Fonda
“While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.” DifferentMy OwnGroupsTypeBandLocalsDifferent Types Of Music Author:Mark Knopfler
“I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a group of musicians and make one record or make one gig and just drop it. Each of them develop over time. I have been really fortunate to keep a band like the Sextet together over three very different albums. Each time, the goal got more deep for me in terms of how I wanted to write for those people. So it is really about trying to develop ideas and trying to have a consistent focus on a way to come up with new ideas in music that I want to do.” PeopleThinkingWayWantWritingTryingHas BeensIdeasDifferentWantedTogetherThreeGoalTermRecordsFocusGroupsBandProjectsMusicianCome UpAlbumsFortunateConsistentNew IdeasGigs Author:Dave Douglas
“We have signed with Artemis Records. Originally they were our distributor for 'Group Therapy'. My former manager (Chip Quigley) started a record label (Recon Records) and had Artemis Records as their distributor. Unfortunately, the way the label was run meant that it didn't turn out the way that we thought it was going to be. We simply got into something that was different to what we initially thought” WayDifferentRunningTurnsRecordsGroupsFormerManagersLabelsTherapyChipsArtemisRecord LabelsDistributorsGroup Therapy Author:Brian Ebejer
“I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and singing, emceeing, and I got a break with a very big star of the late fifties whose name was Tommy Sands.” DifferentShowsBigsNamesStarsBreakComedyGroupsBandLateSingingSandDifferent Things Author:Hal Blaine