Quotes About Ambivalence

Like all parents she is dichotomous, what she really wants is a child genius who is perfectly normal.

They want you or they don't

Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it, this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What do do? where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

Pentru c? am în sânge contrazicerea,toate elanurile mele se anuleaz? reciproc.Chiar în momentul în care iau o hot?râre,o hot?râre contrar? o aboleÅŸte.Uneori,din fericire,o furie subit? vine s? tranÅŸeze disputa ÅŸi m? sileÅŸte s? trec la fapt?.F?r? aceast? izbucinire neprev?zut?,aÅŸ fi condamnat la o veÅŸnic? nemiÅŸcare.

Ceea ce am mai bun în mine se datoreaz? suferinÈ›ei. Nu o iubesc, dar nici nu o condamn.

On voudrait parfois être cannibale, moins pour le plaisir de dévorer tel ou tel que  pour celui de le vomir.

El paraíso no era un lugar soportable, de lo contrario, el primero hombre se habría adaptado a él; este mundo tampoco lo es, ya que en él se añora el paraíso o se da otro por seguro. ¿Qué hacer? ¿A dónde ir? No hagamos nada, no vayamos a ningún lado, así sin más.

Two enemies—the same man divided.

When I wake up in the morning," E. B. White once wrote, "I can't decide whether to enjoy the world or improve the world; that makes it difficult to plan the day.

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

Contradictory conditions are always present. Evidence

now it's like something's been born. Unintentionally, sure, but good, in its own way. But holding me back? Maybe? I don't know anymore. I don't know anything. I want to keep baking pizza. I want to go away. I want to figure out how Aneesa feels about me. I want to end it all. I want. I want. I want. I want too much and I don't know what I want at all. It used to be so easy, so clear.

I don't know." And I don't. But I don't care. I don't care about anything. I can't believe that I'm standing here, talking to her.

The most difficult thing is to renounce the truth and the possibility of verification, to remain as long as possible on the enigmatic, ambivalent, and reversible side of thought.

I am not really keen on doing reality shows. But you never know.

It's difficult to tell whether people are looking at you because they recognise you from your work or just because you're 6 ft. 3 in. and have the eyebrows of Satan. It's difficult to distinguish between the two.

Would I ever recommend anyone working with Kim Fowley? No. But I feel that The Runaways would never have happened without Kim's tough love, which also brought about the demise of the group.

People ask me all the time which I would prefer doing more, but I honestly can't say. When I'm filming, I'm like, 'No, this is my favorite,' and when I'm writing music and recording and performing, it's like, 'This is definitely it.'

There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.

I can't tell you what genre Maroon 5 is in. I don't know if they're rock or pop or alternative. I don't know what they are. I have a hard time separating that stuff. I just know what I like when I hear it.

Anybody who thinks that they should lead the country should go ahead and put their hat in the ring. I am not among them. And I want to be unequivocal about that. There are no circumstances. I don't want to be coy about this.

None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.