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Quotes About Ambivalence

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.
~ Don Johnson
People say to me, 'Are you still excited when you go on tour?' Should I be excited about leaving my family? No, and no one should. It's as simple as that. If you put aside the fantasy of it, it is what it is and has to be done. And that's fine, and I pour my entire energy and enthusiasm into it, but of course, I'm of two minds about the whole idea.
~ Neil Peart
The Tour has changed, and I can't make up my mind if it's changed for the better or worse.
~ Bradley Wiggins
Montserrat is a very pleasant place to do nothing. The islanders know this, and they know this is why tourists go there, but they are not totally comfortable with the notion.
~ Mark Kurlansky
It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.
~ Vijay Singh
I didn't care about the Pride championship or the Pride tournament.
~ Frank Shamrock
I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.
~ Al Alvarez
There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
~ Jon Krakauer
I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.
~ Stephen Bayley
I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.
~ Woody Allen
There's a lot of nice things about Denver. I just don't for the life of me know what they are.
~ Judy Hampton
But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear.
~ Robert Frost
I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Paul said, 'You always had some contempt for me.' 'Yes.' 'And love too.' 'Yes.' A flicker over her stare was the facial equivalent of a shrug. 'Now you have a wife to give you both.
~ Shirley Hazzard
That's what I thought at the time. On second thought, perhaps I didn't really think at all.
~ Sholem Aleichem
I was afraid of it, because I liked it. It excited me.
~ Siri Hustvedt
His sense of duty, honor, rectitude. What made me want to scream one day could make me proud the next.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Politicians neither love nor hate.
~ John Dryden
I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.
~ Anacreon
People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.
~ Anne Roiphe
I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.
~ Thomas Keneally
'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.
~ Matt Groening
Obviously like many of us, I love music, and I hate music sometimes.
~ Erol Alkan