Quotes About Ambivalence

It's a love-and-hate relationship with New York. Much like Hong Kong, it's expensive, crowded, the weather is not so nice. But New York is home, and I love New York.

I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority.

I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying I could do things politically that were interesting to me and do some what I thought would be good. I'm not sure it all turned out like that, but at least that was some of the initial thinking.

Except for the pollution, I love everything about Delhi.

It's better to play negative lead roles than portray just any other character on the show.

I've always been one foot in, one foot out of this game because I'm not comfortable with being on the pedestal or the poster. That's just not who I am. I'm more like the grunt. I want to be the guy behind the guy.

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

I'm a walking contradiction.

I'm full of contradictions.

In general, I like contradictions and complex situations.

I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

I don't give a whole lot of thought or credence to questions about what comes on next, what goes on next.

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

When it came to religion, I felt I belonged to no one. It saddened me, it angered me, it confused me, and it made me religiously ambivalent. So I chose my calling: Cubs baseball.

To do a 'Bond' picture is a blessing but also a curse.

I am not comfortable at all with this tag of being dubbed 'the richest Indian' and all the attention that follows for the reason.

Claudia Rankine's book-length poem 'Citizen' was nominated for National Book Critics Circle awards in the categories of poetry and criticism. It is one of the most devastating takes on American culture I have read in a long time, laying bare the stakes of being black in a country long ambivalent about our presence here.

Traven walks away as a stream of havoc members come by to pat me on the back, punch my arm, and shake my hand. I smile and nod like it's the Oscars and I just won Best Supporting Asshole.

Until recently, most environmental organizations offered only token attention to children. Perhaps their lack of zeal stems from an unconscious ambivalence about children, who symbolize or represent overpopulation. So goes the unspoken mantra: We have met the enemy and it is our progeny.

We experience a powerful reluctance to narrow our options—so powerful that we often miss out on good opportunities in order to avoid losing the remote possibility of something better.

They want to stop but they can't stop. They don't know what they're doing.

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!

P.P.S. Just because I like you, it doesn't mean I still don't think you're an evil creature of the night. You are.