Quotes About Duality

Wherever something stands, something else will stand beside it.

Eastern mysticism embraced both the tangible and the intangible, through the yin and yang of duality. The god Shiva was both the creator and the destroyer of worlds; indeed, one aspect of the deity Nishkala Shiva was the Shiva "without parts"—the void. Through their ability to divorce numerals from physical reality, the Indians invented algebra.

To believe in an ideal, is to be willing to betray it. It is something no Sith or Jedi has ever truly learned. -- Kreia, KOTOR 2

a smart girl is nobody's pushover and nobody's foe. A smart girl is both sword and smile.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer," D. H. Lawrence wrote. "It has never yet melted.

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

When I'm acting well, it's the most exhilarating experience. When I'm bad, it's miserable.

It's a mistake to think that Dexter is nice.

Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

I'm a mixture of untidy and anal.

I felt very comfortable playing Don Draper, because I knew that Don Draper is a character - that Dick Whitman is playing Don Draper. I felt very comfortable in that manufactured-confidence mode. He himself is manufacturing it.

I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

You have to kind of embrace the duality of every moment.

In Arabic, 'Naseem' means a gentle breeze. But inside the guy's a monster.

I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.

For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.

Kids love the Hulk, but they're not really sure: 'Is he a monster or is he a hero?'

Becoming a monster sometimes isn't a choice that you have. We're all that; we're all 'the other' in one way or another.

I'm a real-life 'Hannah Montana.'

I just like to have one foot in Montana and one foot out.

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

I like to think I have good morals, but I still have a little bit of an edgy side.

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.