Quotes About Duality

I relate to Michael Keaton's character in 'Birdman' so much, how he has that voice being so mean and then another boosting his confidence.

I feel partly American, but I have an ambiguous relation with both America and India, the only two countries I really know. I never feel fully one way or the other.

What I have always liked about Italians is the way they are serious when they need to be but know how to relax and have a laugh, too.

Honestly, I've been very blessed. Yes, I am cursed with this gift.

It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or 'the good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.

A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in the country they came from.

I've seen my name on marquees and bowed to standing ovations. I've also been called a fraud, a mental case, a heretic. People all over the country wait in line to hug me or curse me.

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

Human beings are capable of great good, but also of the basest evil.

I'm actually a humanist, believe it or not, and I believe even when people are corrupted, even when they've gone to the dark side, they are still human beings.

Il buon senso è che in ogni cosa vi è un senso determinabile; il paradosso è due sensi nello stesso tempo

She is an incredibly intelligent idiot

We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way.

I was probably happier for those few years--pretending to be someone else--than I ever have been before or after. I can't decide what that means.

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints.

To ignite the wisdom fires of bliss and emptiness And burn off the wood of seeming duality; To cultivate the illusory body yoga locked in union With the vision Of Clear light and voidness

Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.

Spider-Man had Peter Parker.

them from both sides, it looked like escape. Dan

Like the rest of us, Constantius was many men in the body of one.

But then almost everyone nowadays had two lives, his own and his life at the movies.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

I find myself always torn between two beliefs: the belief that life should be better than it is and the belief that when it appears better it is really worse.