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“The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.”

Hate Struggle Advantage Originals Conformity Conventions Disregard

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is the same story, in a way. Scrooge is the original Grinch. I think I am perfectly suited, because I have had some dark Christmases.”

Thinking Way Two Stories Hate Dark I Hate Originals Wounds Odd Iconic Scrooge

Author:Jim Carrey

“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded....Naturally, therefore, common men hate a new idea, and are disposed more or less to ill-treat the original man who brings it.”

Thinking Men Humans May Ideas Pain Hate Belief Common Human Nature Treats Originals Notion Ill New Ideas Make You Think Common Man Your Favorite

Author:Walter Bagehot

“I like to play pranks on my girlfriend, you know, keep things fresh for me, make me laugh, you know? She hates it. But like, the other night, I put Saran wrap over the toilet seat, you know, which doesn't sound that original, but she's bulimic.”

Knows Play Night Hate Sound Laughing Originals Girlfriend Seats Toilets Wraps My Girlfriend Make Me Laugh Pranks Toilet Seat

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I hate that we're always called "the all-female Ghostbusters," because you wouldn't refer to the original as "the all-male Ghostbusters."”

Hate Female I Hate Originals Males

Author:Paul Feig

“I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.”

“It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.”

Humans Play Feelings Hate Process Human Nature Quiet Hatred Anger Originals Credit Selfishness Inspirational Love Transformed Hostility Scarlet Irritation Hatred And Anger

Book:Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels: Scarlet Letter / House of Seven Gables / Blithedale Romance / Fanshawe / Marble Faun: Library of America #10

Source: Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels: Scarlet Letter / House of Seven Gables / Blithedale Romance / Fanshawe / Marble Faun: Library of America #10

“I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.”

Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live

“Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.”

Mind Firsts Hate Seeing I Hate Originals Familiar Something New New Things Hate You Distinguished I Hate You Familiar Things

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche