Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.
‐‐ Jim Jarmusch
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
‐‐ Ayn Rand
Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
‐‐ Sydney Schanberg
Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.
‐‐ Peter Thiel
Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
‐‐ Harry Browne
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
‐‐ Paul Harding
Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.
‐‐ Jim Webb
Contrary to common assumption, many of the wealthiest Americans aren't worried about the weakening economy at all. They are actually excited about it.
‐‐ Jamie Johnson
Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
‐‐ Randy Alcorn
Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.
‐‐ Vincent Bugliosi
Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength - not his weaknesses - to place him immediately on the defensive.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon
Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.
‐‐ Stephen Jay Gould
Contrary to Eastern Europe, where the border was more porous and you could exchange information more easily, Cuba is an island. Thus, it is more isolated, and it's easier for the government to have great control over its citizens.
‐‐ Luis Fortuno
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
‐‐ Edgard Varese
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
‐‐ Peter Ustinov
Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour.
‐‐ Andy Murray
Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people.
‐‐ Tullian Tchividjian
Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.
‐‐ Roy H. Williams
Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.
‐‐ Meg Rosoff
Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains.
‐‐ Tim Curry
Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.
‐‐ Bill Gates
Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet
Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.
‐‐ Mike Royko
Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer
Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians.
‐‐ Nick Goepper
Contrary to popular mythology, not all NFL cheerleaders are bimbos or strippers or bored pretty girls looking to get rich. The Ben-Gals offer proof. Neither a bimbo nor a stripper nor a bored pretty girl would survive the rigorous life of a Ben-Gal. The Ben-Gals all have jobs or school or both.
‐‐ Jeanne Marie Laskas
Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz
Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid
Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.
‐‐ Bono
Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
‐‐ Victoria Beckham
Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.
‐‐ Paul Engle
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
‐‐ Barack Obama
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
‐‐ Carlos Fuentes
Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country.
‐‐ Ari Fleischer
Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
‐‐ Renee Fleming
Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.
‐‐ Randeep Hooda
Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov
Contrary to what everyone thinks, in my family, we didn't talk about politics at home.
‐‐ Marion Marechal-Le Pen
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
‐‐ Manuel Puig
Contrary to what many people believe, terrorism is actually a very expensive business.
‐‐ Loretta Napoleoni
Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
‐‐ Fatema Mernissi
Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.
‐‐ Thomas Perry
Contrary to what most people think, bank money is much more important than state money. In Greece, for example, bank money makes up 84.26% of the total money supply.
‐‐ Steve Hanke
Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients.
‐‐ Mark Skousen
Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang
Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night.
‐‐ Jim Mitchell
Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
‐‐ Michael Palin