Quotes About Contradiction

I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.

There is something really mysterious about lions. They could rip you apart if they wanted to, but at the same time they look so cuddly. Can you imagine what humans look like to animals? They must think we're so weird.

I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff.

It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening.

Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.

I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.

Pragmatism and romance are sort of opposites.

My praise is perhaps an unforgivable poison.

Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow.

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time.

There's no law that says you have to be consistent in your preferences.

I guess the all-American presentation of what a player is supposed to stand for is not what I am.

No one is better at deprecating President Trump than President Trump - just ask him.

I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed back into the creativity. I'm saying that I'm about contradiction, that you can't put me into a box.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

The South is just a dark place, man.

I've come to find out everybody loves ol' David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.

All the earrings are mostly crosses. It's kind of a contradiction to wear it since I'm known as the Demon Chef. They're all custom-made. Some are Tiffany's. Some are Stephen Webster from England.

Life is so beautiful, but there are all these scary things you can't deny.