All Quotes

Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
‐‐ Daniel Akaka

Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.
‐‐ Pierre Loti

Unlike most traditional, season-long fantasy sports sites, which make most of their money from administrative fees and advertising, FanDuel and DraftKings take a cut of every bet. That is what bookies do, and it is illegal in New York.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.
‐‐ Saina Nehwal

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.
‐‐ Jacques Villeneuve

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.
‐‐ John Malkovich

Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel that my father, had he lived longer, might have been a touch disapproving of some of my career - I think he might have tutted a bit at 'Men Behaving Badly.'
‐‐ Martin Clunes

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.
‐‐ Barack Obama

Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you.
‐‐ Brian Cox

Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.
‐‐ Grant Morrison

Unlike novels with a hero or two heroines, in 'One Amazing Thing,' all the characters tell stories they've never told anyone before, so all the voices become equally important.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Unlike other diseases, the vulnerability to cancer lies in ourselves. We always thought of disease as exogenous, but research into cancer has turned that idea on its head - as long as we live, grow, age, there will be cancer.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Unlike other enduring characters such as 'Sherlock Holmes' or 'Tarzan,' being the 'Doctor' allows you a certain freedom that is both very demanding and very thrilling. It allows you to make the character using elements of yourself.
‐‐ David Tennant

Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.
‐‐ Ricky Jay

Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of the home or passes away.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.
‐‐ Christopher Dawson

Unlike other professions - doctor, lawyer, teacher, journalist, sales clerk, stock broker - when a cop makes a bad mistake, it could mean someone is dead. They take home mental baggage unlike anything carried in almost every other job.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle

Unlike other sports, which are largely determined by individual athletic ability or team strength, NASCAR requires its competitors to cooperate in order to win.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.
‐‐ Anand Gopal

Unlike other young actors I've worked with who will remain nameless, Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry would never go out partying after work, but would immediately hunker down to start working on the reams of labyrinthine dialogue they had to navigate for the next day's work.
‐‐ Mark Waters

Unlike painting, sculpture, or music, typefaces must be useful to someone. Fortunately for designers, the digital age has produced new problems to solve - developing typefaces that work on mobile phones, for one - and enabled better solutions to old problems.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
‐‐ Ursula Burns

Unlike people of my generation, my children and my grandchildren have grown up living with, knowing, people who were outwardly gay and lesbian. And they have learned that they're just like us... And when you see that they're just like us, the rationale for discrimination melts away.
‐‐ David Boies

Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.
‐‐ Adam Davidson

Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

Unlike President Obama, I would say that I support the long-standing bipartisan post-war belief that American global strength and leadership secures our national-security interests, and it also promotes order and stability in the world. And it gives us immense influence in the world and deters our adversaries and reassures our allies.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has been inside the bubble all his life. He has no idea what's going on here. He has no idea how destructive Bush's eight years were to this country.
‐‐ Stephen Stills

Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
‐‐ Les Brown

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.
‐‐ Zygmunt Bauman

Unlike regular digital or film cameras, which can only record a scene in two dimensions, light field cameras capture all of the light rays traveling in every direction through a scene. This means that some aspects of a picture can be manipulated after the fact.
‐‐ Ren Ng

Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma to bones and joints than running on hard pavement does.
‐‐ Dean Karnazes

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
‐‐ Bill Nye

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.
‐‐ Stanislav Grof

Unlike settled, patriarchal societies such as classical Greece and Rome, where women stayed home to weave and mind children, the lives of nomadic steppe tribes centered on horses and archery.
‐‐ Adrienne Mayor

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.
‐‐ Christian Marclay

Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence and great rapidity.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.
‐‐ Rian Johnson

Unlike some people who love to go out, I love to stay home.
‐‐ Laurie Colwin

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

Unlike some viruses, we don't know what the natural reservoir is for Ebola. A lot of people think it's bats, but it's still very controversial; it could have been circulating in insects, in an environment, or in individuals.
‐‐ Pardis Sabeti

Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.
‐‐ Lance Loud

Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Sometimes I want to stop acting, but then you get a good script!
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation.
‐‐ John Eisenhower

Unlike the Contract with America, which was created by Washington pollsters and insiders, Families First was developed from the grassroots up. Congressional Democrats from across the country spent months meeting with people back home, asking them what issues were important to them, and what Congress could do to make their lives a little easier.
‐‐ Dick Gephardt

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
‐‐ Georg Baselitz