Quotes About Ambivalence

I acquired quite a lot of technical skill and got quite a long way with my painting, but I never felt I was doing what New Zealand was about with my paint.

The man who sees both sides of an issue is very likely on the fence or up a tree.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.

You cannot have it both ways.

You can and you can't, You will and you won't; You'll be damn'd if you do, You'll be damn'd if you don't.

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.

I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got.

Isn't it just heart-stopping and mind-numbing when you stop and realize that the Republican Party doesn't want to win?

"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?

If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.

After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.

Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want

My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.

I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.

There are always going to be people who want to be president, and some days I'd like to give it to them.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to L.A. And I thought, "I want to sell out!"

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

The question is not whether you would like to be president or not. The question is: Do you think you can win and do you want to run? And none of those are clear to me.

Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.

He didn't know what he wanted. He only knew what he didn't want.

What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don't know yet.