Quotes About Duality

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

It's always interesting to see somebody struggling with two different sides of their personality.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. That's what you have to do: you have to be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience.

I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

We were like bishops of opposite color.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

I'm completely the opposite of what I play on 'Game of Thrones.'

There's more to light than the opposite of dark.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

My parents are opposites who balance each other out.

I always loved playing extreme opposites, whether it's internal or external.

I believe that we, every day, 24-7, all the days of our lives, we are, all of us, agents of construction and agents of destruction.

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

You can be outraged by what the Koch brothers do with their money in politics and you can appreciate what they contribute to hospitals and medical research, and you can do that at the same time and still retain an ability to function.

I always did my own thing. I'm not an outsider, but I have one foot in and one foot out.

I'm both an insider and an outsider.

It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that's how our little world works, but it just isn't so.

Despite what pretty poets say, the night is only half the day.

photographed dressed as an Arab sheikh, in robe and headdress. The photograph is preserved among his papers, pasted next to another picture in which he is in the same pose but dressed in a tailored suit and expensive tie. One is labeled "East" and the other "West.

takes a devil to make a decent angel.