Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20. KARL LAGERFELD You don't know how I feel about you, but you know that I do. I from. I feel about you. Knowing that ... KAYLA RAE I don't live life to be different. I live life to be the same. ANTHONY T.HINCKS Why live for the day,
when you know the next one
is going to be exactly the same. HUGO SVENSSON Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same. SCOTT WESTERFELD It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just a... ALBERT CAMUS ...the difference between love and everything else is that it's infinite, it's built out of somethin... B.J. NOVAK Don't accentuate our differences, but instead focus on our similarities. ANTHONY T. HINCKS If your pain is the same like somebody else, I think that this will be the best couple it will be. DEYTH BANGER Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Is Japan turning Communist? Stop. Need 1,000 words soonest. THE INDEPENDENT When everyone is thinking the same, no one is thinking. JOHN WOODEN Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same. CASSANDRA CLARE My point of view is very simple. I think war is no option. Trying to play the same note at the same ... DANIEL BARENBOIM We stayed at the same hotel and ate at the same restaurants. You could say I'm a little superstitiou... DARREN MAYNARD Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite. MURRAY WALKER Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like... ANTHONY JESELNIK Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time.... KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it. KATHERINE PATERSON You go on saying we're the same mind split perfectly in two. You go on saying we're practically join... KAYLA RAE In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums... YANN MARTEL To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. YIDDISH PROVERB Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven YIDDISH PROVERB Jewelry is art, wearable art. We don't want to see the same thing on two people. We rarely carry the... LEE DORN Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all figh... BROM Some hotels said they offer the same standard of service as a four-star hotel. This is completely mi... YAO SHUOYE They are not working in sync. Working on the same thing at the same time is not as effective as work... REGGIE JOINER Survivorship is a process, and not everyone does it the same way at the same time, ... Different mem... ANDREA WHITE She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER People often assume that the same approach will work for everyone, that the same habits will work fo... GRETCHEN RUBIN If you can get everyone in the same room, around the same table at the same time, you can usually fi... HAL DAUB The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same w... CLIVE BELL ...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds ... JACK KEROUAC He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place. HARLAN COBEN What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty hav... HUGH HEFNER If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by t... CHARLES HODGE No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different g... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If insanity is in repeating the same behavior while expecting different results, no less insane is t... ROBIN SACREDFIRE We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line.... HARUKI MURAKAMI The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is co... JOSEF ALBERS We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all ... PETER HøEG It's very important with an artificial leg that all high heels are exactly the same height. HEATHER MILLS Today, what people call learning is forced on you. Everyone is forced to learn the same thing on the... ISAAC ASIMOV One of the best things about it is that it's the same for everyone. The same for girls and for the y... JACKY GADDIS We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL It's almost exactly the same. ... It was very similar. Our start was almost the same and Coleman hit... LYNN BRIA I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the ... ALFONSO RIBEIRO You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing... GLENN TURNER An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER I cannot remember a time when two teams in the same program were ranked in the Valley. I've never he... JOE FILOTEO Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. ALBERT SZENT-GYöRGYI Theology never changes. A man's heart is the same. The Gospel is the same. There have been no additi... BILLY GRAHAM You wouldn't have the same art on the walls at every restaurant or the same waiter uniforms. Nei... DANNY MEYER This is probably the best year of my career, and we are having a good year. It's fun when you have s... KIP ANDERSON The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wr... C. JOYBELL C. It's a small town; everybody eats in the same cafe; everybody gets their hair cut in the same barber... JOE THOMPSON Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in ... TOM PETERS You take a look at the standings and all these teams are the same. Everyone is kind of knotted with ... KEN MACHA Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world ... FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE Jerry Ford is so dumb that he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. LYNDON B. JOHNSON As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tra... CHARLES DICKENS Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same... PETER KREEFT The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON All CP hotels smell the same, ATOM EGOYAN The Cardiff Half Marathon has already proved itself to be one of the biggest and best road races in ... 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QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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JERRY SEINFELD Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. JERRY GARCIA You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energ... JERRY GILLIES The government is becoming the family of last resort. JERRY BROWN It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to h... JERRY GILLIES People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius. JERRY LEWIS You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the onl... JERRY GARCIA Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside a... JERRY GILLIES I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like. JERRY GARCIA Profitability doesn't happen when you're walking on bullshit. JERRY MARTIN Inaction may be the biggest form of action. JERRY BROWN For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the ... JERRY GARCIA The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you. JERRY GILLIES What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important th... JERRY GILLIES Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those place... JERRY GARCIA Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do? JERRY BROWN By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything ... JERRY RUBIN It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenho... JERRY ADLER Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobe... JERRY BRIDGES I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?' JERRY SEINFIELD The backseat produced the sexual revolution. JERRY RUBIN Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. JERRY BROWN According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death i... JERRY SEINFELD It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits th... JERRY SEINFELD Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fr... JERRY RUBIN A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it. JERRY SEINFELD Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating charac... JERRY STAHL AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society th... JERRY FALWELL We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers. JERRY MORAN I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alic... JERRY CANTRELL 'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi. JERRY ORBACH Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about suc... JERRY CANTRELL Adrenaline is so strong that none of us understand it. JERRY LEWIS I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the inco... JERRY FALWELL It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fit... JERRY SEINFELD Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Aus... JERRY LAWLER They'd have to force me to take the All-Star Game. They take over the building, your season-tick... JERRY REINSDORF