Quotes About Ambiguity

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

People laugh at me because I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow.

I can't even plan tomorrow.

It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.

Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives.

Nothing about Tony Soprano's life was glamorous. He was never somebody I wanted to be. His life was terrible.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.

Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

I always expect people to be torn when they see one of my films and divided in some way.

As far as I can tell, the only unambiguous consequence of the claimed invasion of Earth by beings from another star system has been a nonstop torrent of TV specials. So if you're one of the many who believe the aliens are here, you really do have to admit this: They're the best houseguests ever.

That's the Elektra I tried to portray: one that's always in the grey. She is a tortured soul.

We're gonna totally sell out and try to dominate the world.

It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar.

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

Putin is a totally inscrutable guy. He gives nothing away. People interpreted what they wanted to see in him.

Life is short, and certainty never happens.

What in the world is going on with that?

There are no good guys in this game. There's only bad guys, and less bad guys.

One thing about Fleetwood Mac's remarkable history is not ambiguous: this soap opera has the greatest soundtrack of them all. —SEAN EGAN

Obama warned in October 2019. "The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws."31