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Quotes About Conflicted

I'm more fascinated by anti-heroes, and Gambit is one of those.
~ Simon Kinberg
I play a nice crazy lady whose morals are right but who is really foundering.
~ Mary Crosby
I hate to see you leave but I kind of hate it when you're here, too.
~ Joey Comeau
I am so angry. And so happy to see him.
~ E. Lockhart
I think the U.S. is conflicted. When it comes to our own health care, we all want the best - access to the latest and most important technology. At the same time, health care is typically purchased in an institutional setting. So we purchase it in the aggregate, but we consume it as individuals.
~ Ron Williams
I can't say I love football anymore.
~ Ann McKee
I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.
~ Margaret Anderson
I suppose the textbook definition of an anti-hero is pretty straightforward - a protagonist who embodies not only heroic characteristics but also some characteristics typically deemed non-heroic, even villainous.
~ Paul S. Kemp
'Donnie Brasco' was 85 percent on the money. The only thing that they slanted was my feelings for Lefty and Sonny', and this idea that I didn't want to go through with seeing them in jail. I was never swayed. There was no conflict.
~ Joseph D. Pistone
If you asked me how I felt when they told me I would marry Wen Fu, I can say only this: It was like being told I had won a big prize. And it was also like being told my head was going to be chopped off. Something between those two feelings.
~ Amy Tan
I don't believe I can let this subject pass by leaving my own conflicted emotions unconfessed. When Carl Sagan won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1978, I dismissed it as a minor achievement for a scientist, scarcely worth listing. When I won the same prize the following year, it wondrously became a major literary award of which scientists should take special note.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Besides, I hated him but I loved him too. Yes. I know all about that sort of thing. Christ, I should, I'd heard nothing else my last two years in New York. 'They have this terrific love-hate thing going,' everybody said about everybody else. 'You watch, it's going to destroy them-.' But never about me . When I took to someone I took to them, and when I took against them ditto. Mostly I felt indifference.
~ Elaine Dundy
Many witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown made statements inconsistent with other statements they made and also conflicted with the physical evidence. Some were completely refuted by the physical evidence.
~ Robert P. McCulloch
How I hated Mael. How I feared him. Yet I had loved him once, loved him when we'd been mortals even, and I'd been his prisoner and he had been the Druid priest teaching me the hymns of the Faithful of the Forest, for what purpose, I didn't know.
~ Anne Rice
As far as I'm concerned, he's the biggest piece of shit I've ever met next to Ron. But at the same time, hearing him talk about his childhood is oddly compelling, like wanting to see a car wreck.
~ Shawn Goodman
And I laughed because half of me was happy and half of me wasn't sure what else to do.
~ Sherman Alexie
For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.
~ Danielle Steel
We might have been two opposite halves of one thing, complementary and conflicted.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I want to care, but I don't.
~ Elizabeth Scott
I think that the Greeks were extremely ambivalent about the stories of Amazons: they found them both thrilling and rather daunting at the same time.
~ Adrienne Mayor
Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.
~ Dean Norris
But there were too many factions, too many special interests that conflicted.
~ Mario Puzo
He hurt me so much, I can hardly bear to look at him. But if I needed someone to use a scalpel to save my life, he's the one I'd turn to. Like a shot.
~ Sophie Kinsella
It just seems helpful to admit that Christianity is as complicated and conflicted as any other religion, with groups of followers who can believe in the unity of their faith even as they refuse Communion to one another.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor