Different Thing Quotes

It’s just a whole different thing, and it’s just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

I looked at all the superstars. What is their different thing? Their hair. Beatles, Elvis, James Dean, James Brown, Marilyn Monroe. I wanted to be a star. I said, ‘I have to fix my hair.’

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

I don’t feel I have to charm somebody, I feel I want to know them; it’s a different thing.

The IPL is a different ball game. Going there and playing in England against England is a different thing.

I feel like people believe I’m thinking a different thing than I am because I have this look about me.

The doctor didn’t want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That’s religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn’t want to give those up.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.

It’s one thing to hear that someone likes your show; it’s a completely different thing to have them come take their time and film something with you on a sidewalk.

Truthfully, we don’t want my Weezer affiliation to have any bearing on whether someone likes us or not. It’s an entirely different thing. The Space Twins have our own chemistry.

I’m used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festivals and wear fancy clothes and try and look glamorous and intelligent when you’re just terrified and you want to go home!

Publishing a book is a very different thing than writing one.

When you really boil it down, what comedy does is you expect one thing, and you get a totally different thing that’s humorous, and we all laugh. That’s generally how, just mechanically – super-distilled – comedy works.

Risk taking in business is one thing. Risk taking in your personal safety is a different thing.

One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It’s what I did with my cookbook, frankly.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

I’m impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats – that’s one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that’s a different thing all together.

I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

I’m not an artist that makes singles, I’m an artist that makes albums, and it’s a totally different thing.

When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn’t replaced him; Phil’s done a different thing.

It’s one thing to play football in this league and make a living, but it’s a totally different thing to come to a place with a rich tradition like the Bears.

When you have celebrity, it’s a whole different thing than being an artist.

Earlier, only youngsters were trying their hands on digital platforms, TV was a different thing for actors and film actors were looked up as superior. Now, nothing of that sort exists anymore… So, I will be doing everything.

I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that’s a completely different thing. I’ve written in defense of evolution and made arguments that are based on evolution.

I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like ‘Too Sentimental’ is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There’s definitely varied songs on there.

Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.

The writing is all done, so it’s all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there’s a bit of politics involved, so it’s a different thing.

Performing in front of the camera is a different thing, and shooting a whole film is another.

I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don’t do. It’s just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.

Knowing about authors’ beliefs helps you understand how those beliefs influence their writing, and things you thought meant one thing, once you’ve got enough information about that writer, you suddenly realize mean an entirely different thing. That makes a difference.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers – they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

The trick is the paradox – turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that’s fun to write.

There’s always room for an operator like Airbnb, but it’s quite a different thing to my serviced apartments. Airbnb is a different market – it has nothing to do with me.

It’s a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it’s man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they’re two different things.

I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about ‘the character,’ and what you do. It’s a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.

It’s a completely different thing, but there’s so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The only risk is not taking the risk. You’ve got to take that step.

Whatever I do, I’m always struggling to create a visceral experience. With my music, I’m more of a live performer these days. And film is such a different thing. It’s where people sit in a dark theater. I want them to feel me as viscerally as if they were at a live show.

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

I came from doing Wushu and other martial arts, and then I got into movies, and I had to learn that as well – the language of martial arts movie fighting. It’s a different thing; it’s a different kind of logic.

There has been far too much of journalists deciding they are on the side of something and going out to get the story, instead of truth seeking which is a different thing.

We’re like on a rollercoaster and I don’t like that because a sign of a good team is consistency, and consistency is a work ethic and it’s about producing that standard, and if you can produce that standard week in, week out, whether you win or lose, that’s a different thing.

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, to begin with, in the 1980s, it was all character acting. And then when, by fluke, through ‘Four Weddings’, I got into doing lead parts, it’s a completely different thing.

I believe in civil partnerships as it protects each partner. Whether I believe in marriage is a different thing.

It’s one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There’s no room for courtesy or chivalry here.

It’s a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn’t consider it a good year unless you win the championship.

My role in kung fu – in the art of kung fu, not the series – is not as a practitioner. My role is that of an evangelist, which is an entirely different thing.

I never really thought of my neighborhood in South Philly as being a neighborhood; it was more a state of mind. For people who aren’t familiar with those kinds of places, it’s a whole different thing. Like, 42nd Street in New York City is a state of mind.

Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing – and much less acceptable.

I’ve had tremendous opportunities in film and continue to have them, but it’s such a different thing to do a television show, and I’m very lucky to be able to do them both.

There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America… hundreds of people were set up in work camps, and hereditary-forced labor was put in place. That’s a very different thing than the personal slavery that existed elsewhere.

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

It’s so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that’s really close to me, something I’ve been through, it’s a totally different thing.

Winning is a different thing, but even being nominated for an award like Filmfare is an honour.

I wouldn’t be doing this if it wasn’t fun. It’s just a whole different thing these days.

You have to have some form of talent. Getting to a skill-set when you can do something is achievable. Getting to a skill-set when you can do it an elite level is a different thing.

There’s such a fascination with celebrity. I think that’s a very different thing to being an actor.

I feel like ‘Travelers’ is something I can legitimately say, ‘You’re going to love this.’ I think then people will accept me as a different thing. And if they don’t, it’s fun trying.

Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I’m going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.

I’m never going to try ‘Carpool Karaoke’ in New York. That would be a very different thing. Mariah Carey’s one, we just drove, like, five or six blocks round where she was staying at the time.

For me, fiction isn’t very cathartic. It can be a broad, long catharsis, but it’s a whole different thing – whereas music is physical. Essentially, it goes in through your ear. Fiction is cerebral, necessarily. It can do emotional stuff. But they don’t really compare – not for me.

The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that’s a whole different thing than reading about it in the history books. You’re able to really personalize it.

You can always get something cool out of a collaboration – you can always have a moment – but meeting someone that you want to collaborate with continuously, that’s a different thing.

When you get off to an African country like Malawi – which is pretty removed from everything and pretty seriously off the grid – and you see the struggle of life that goes on there, it’s a completely different thing than what happens here.

What I and other YouTubers do is a very different thing; it’s almost like hanging around and watching your pal play games.

I love directing scenes that I’m not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

The great thing about a record is it frees your imagination; it gives your eyes a rest and lets your mind wander. There’s the special thing that each record can mean a different thing to every person listening to it.

South Africa gives me a perspective of what’s real and what’s not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn’t take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.

When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling – fanciful storytelling – can only be told through fashion photography. It’s the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.

I’m used to working with a rehearsal process and your body. It’s a different thing to just be a voice. It’s liberating, on one hand, because you get to show up in sweatpants and with Doritos on your fingers, but on the other hand, it’s limiting because it’s just your voice.

Certainly the multicultural activists in the Labour party and the universities wanted to destroy the old white Anglo-Saxon education system as they saw it, and produce something completely different – with no conception of what that completely different thing would be, of course.

There are not many people who understand that creative management is a very different thing than normal management. You don’t manage accounts like you manage designers.

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can’t follow the form of the novel. It’s a different thing completely. It’s impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that.

Starship was a whole different thing. It was pop rock. It made more money and had more hit songs than Airplane. There was no cultural or social ethic behind it. For me, it was like selling out. I was the only one selling out. The rest enjoyed doing what they were doing.

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.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

The crossover wasn’t happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there’s just a lot of crossover.

Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it’s just as simple as, ‘I hate myself.’ Everyone’s got a different thing.

It’s a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That’s the thing about painting, photography, cinema.