Quotes About Duality

A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

I feel like I'm always trying to make a movie about the Two Faced Man in some way.

American democracy has two faces.

I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

I've got two families.

I'm on the sockless and un-sockless teams. I'm on both sides.

I think that it's possible to have someone who is an anti-hero, who does tear hearts out and break necks, and you can still relate to him on a certain level.

There's always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we'd probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our music reflected the lyrics all the time. I think that's almost the fun game with some songs, is this complete tearing of two feelings at once.

The challenge is to balance the technical elements and what is required of us with being artists and telling a story.

You get Don King's point of view in what is almost a Shakespearean, classical technique. He comes across almost like a lovable rogue, like Iago in 'Othello' or Richard III. He's doing all these bad things, but I kind of like him. It's like 'Pulp Fiction': Everybody's a bad guy, yet you like them.

In subjects that physicists think of as purely quantum, classical ideas and classical computational techniques can often be powerful.

Ted Cruz is the Schroedinger's cat of politicians. He is both eligible and not eligible to be president.

I think the most appealing characters for the audience are the ones that you never know whether to root for them or whether to hate them. That's what keeps people drawn to their television sets.

On the ice, I feel like I can become a different person, and the darker dramatics, the Black Swan, is confident: she's free to do whatever she wants, and that attitude helps in my skating. The White Swan is, I feel, more what I'm actually like off the ice: I'm a lot quieter, and if someone tells me to do something, I'll just do it.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.—Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Keep a spirited Christian horse and a useful ethical donkey. But don't try to breed a mule.

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

All this is true, and if it were all, how beautiful, how touching, how glorious it would be. But it is not all. There is another side.

I believe two different kinds of will can exist at the same time in one person. Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

He had an odd double impression of being exactly where he belonged, and where he'd never belonged, of intense familiarity and of separateness.

As F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.