Quotes About Duality

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.

There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.

'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

I feel like an '8 Mile' Eminem compared to 'My Name is.' Whenever my name is brought up, it's in a 'Slim Shady' way, and it's funny, and I'm lighthearted, but at the same time, every once in a while, I like to take it seriously.

I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if you piss me off, I can be one of the meanest, most sadistic people.

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

Jekyll is quite close to me, a little bit more shy. Whereas Hyde is a mish-mash of lots of things. I didn't realise I was borrowing it throughout the auditions - but Heath Ledger's Joker was an influence.

Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes.

I believe in the equal and opposite: If I exist, there is an equal and opposite version of me, and so however long I have to wait, and wherever he happens to be, we'll find it. Sometimes it's like, 'Jesus, where he at?'

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk down the road and whistle a song. But on the other hand on albums I think you can afford to show people what you can do.

In the beginning it was all black and white.

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

Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It's not black and white.

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.

I am black and white.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.