Quotes About Ambiguity

If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.

In general, I think it's an advantage politically to keep people guessing.

I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

I find anonymous music frees me best. Chinese pop can be perfect. I can't decipher anything on the CD label; there is nothing I can hang on to.

I've always been drawn to ambiguity in pop music.

I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don't think they have any meaning.

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.

It's almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

It is very easy to play a sweet girl-next-door but difficult to portray a grey character.

I wasn't exactly sure where I wanted to take my music and how I wanted to be portrayed, and it was sort of, not done for me, but more directed.

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.

I always hate taking categorical positions.

Darkness is full of possibility.

I believe in possibility, but I'm not sure I believe in demons.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

I'll always keep you guessing. I'm living up to the name. It's powerful. That's just what I do.

All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

I am a living contradiction.