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Quotes About Contradiction

Wen wu contradicts the very American notion of John Wayne being the ideal of manhood. In the wen wu way of thinking, it's much more important to restrain rather than exert yourself through brute power.
~ Alex Tizon
John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.
~ Tab Hunter
Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.
~ Paul Watson
Nothing ever goes as planned in China.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
When you stand and talk about player safety, and then, at the same time, you want to extend the season two more games, there's a contradiction in there.
~ Troy Aikman
I hate golf! I still can't believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
~ Lemmy
It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.
~ Nastassja Kinski
Please your eye and plague your heart.
~ William Cobbett
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?
~ Jason Schwartzman
Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.
~ Tim Minchin
It's funny: here I am, a guy who plays in one of the world's biggest classic-rock bands, and to tell you the truth, I listen to classic rock the least.
~ Rickey Medlocke
American history is not clean.
~ Ben Fountain
I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.
~ Rose Byrne
I'm kind of the antithesis of a comedian. People that don't like me will agree with that.
~ Frank Caliendo
As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.
~ Maria Bamford
Advice is always awesome because it never makes any sense when you compare it all together. It always contradicts other advice. I love advice.
~ Harper Reed
Incommensurables cannot be compared.
~ Garrett Hardin
Woman is also the element of conflict.
~ Marcello Mastroianni
Being stupid and compassionate are not conflicts. Being mean and being funny and having something to say are not a conflict.
~ El-P
I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.
~ Robert Wilson
While I ridicule books of self-help, I'm also quite susceptible to them. They help simplify things.
~ Amitava Kumar
People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.
~ Michelle Branch
They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in my sleeve and think, 'Oh, Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!'
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle