Quotes About Contrast

I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them.

You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'

My childhood was very beautiful in some ways and very disturbing in others.

Living in Constanta under communism, we did not have the ethnic diversity that I then encountered in America.

The Sahara is Africa's great divide.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

All of the universe will be divided into two parts.

I don't like expensive things... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save.

I like to wear something expensive with something that's not.

I should have been born a crazy rich Asian because I do have expensive taste. I have champagne taste but I'm on a beer budget.

There were some days where I was like, you know what, I don't relate to everything that I'm hearing on the radio right now. Because I'm having a bad time, I'm having a rough day, I'm experiencing something that is making me feel alienated in this emotion because everything I'm hearing is about the opposite.

Kendrick Lamar is from Compton, but his Compton and how he expresses that is completely different than NWA and Eazy-E even though they were from the same environment.

At these big set-piece events like the leaders' debates, that exterior of calm and serenity is nothing compared to what's going on inside most of the time.

Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they're ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or characterization to another.

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

I live in the extremes.

I listen to anything country and anything classical. Two great extremes.

I'm interested in extremes, in many ways.

The difference between my sister and I is that she is an extreme extrovert. She is right up front and tells you what she feels. I'm the quiet nobody-knows-me type.

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.