Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
Zeniba: [about Yubaba] We're identical twins and exact opposites.
In the end, a gun is an instrument to make someone surrender to your will or die, and music is exactly the opposite - it's seductive and invitational.
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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