Quotes About Contradiction

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds.

I feel alone and safe in public.

I'm proper schizophrenic - really, really, really shy, but also a bit of a loon.

I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.

I am an oxymoron, shy and confident at the same time.

The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together.

My personal view of the anarch-capitalists is that it's an oxymoron.

I paint stupid things; that's what I do. I can't think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have to mess it up. There has to be something a little kinky to keep their attention.

To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.

A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.

Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.

It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.

I love paradox. I like to go where people don't expect me to go.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

The whole notion of an alternative truth is a paradox. How can you have an alternative to truth?

But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

Fighting in the name of god is the biggest paradox ever.

I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

I don't want a little Oliver/Olivia parasite running about eating my biscuits. My friends, on the other hand, are procreating like humanity depends on it, and it doesn't.

I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.

I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.