Quotes About Uncertainty

I think part of what acting did for me is it kind of represents all my greatest fears. I'm sort of compelled to do it, but at the same time, it's so frightening. But I think that the things that frighten me the most in life are the things I should be doing.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

I wasn't very confident about clothes; I was always hunting through racks, never sure what looked right. It can be like that again when you're older.

I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

It's very difficult for the family members of ICE agents, and it's very difficult for ICE agents to know what's right and what's wrong and why should I get engaged and go out there and enforce the law when I don't know what it means any more to have consequences.

In ice dancing, you cannot decide your result. You just have to do your best, and you can't decide if you win or not.

And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don't have to think you're an idiot savant.

That idea of being so sure of what has happened, and what will happen, is the most idiotic human thing that anyone can do.

I've been in the 'Idol' bubble, and now it's popped, and I don't know what's going to happen.

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

We'll never know if I could have made it to the NFL. Do I think so? Yeah.

Life in L.A. has been amazing. It's been really hard, it's been eventful. It's a lot of what ifs and maybes and being hopeful.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.

Drag Race' was when I was kind of confused about how I wanted to live the rest of my life and I was just having fun, a little ignorant, a little young.

I believe that Brexit, whether it's a bad deal or no deal, is a big deal - too big for anyone to ignore - but it's not a done deal.

Ill give you a definite maybe.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

About seven years ago, I was anchoring a BBC news program and somebody else was brought in to do it. I had that moment of thinking, 'My God, Im a complete failure. Ill never work again.'