Quotes About Complexity

John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

I always saw two sides of life. I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has.

There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.

'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.

I am interested in complex characters who are difficult and have numerous sides. But I would love to do a comedy role - something maybe 'Monty Python'-esque.

Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good.

I always feel safe with a woman photographer. I feel that no matter how they interpret something, they understand all sides of it because they are women, and women are complex creatures.

I think the most interesting characters are those in which you can see both sides.

The issue of immigration is one of the most complex and politically difficult issues because there is so much passion on all sides.

It's two sides to everybody. I'm a manager - I'm a promoter - and I'm a fighter, so it is two sides to me. That's a balance there.

I think I find a commonality between characters and the different sides of myself.

Men are both bad and awful. And women are both bad and awful. And they can both be good and wonderful on both sides.

A human being has a lot of sides, like a kind of diversity, so it's like a good side, a bad side, a crazy side, a normal side, like a man-ish side, a woman-ish side.

Lana is 100 percent an extension of me, but just one side of me. I feel that's what I get really excited about because on 'Total Divas,' you are going to see other sides of me.

There's many sides to a coin and one person can in fact do a lot of different things.

I think for me personally, I have a lot sides to me.

I really am one of those people who are mixed on many issues and can see many legitimate sides.

When we lose hope that there is a possibility of reaching the other side - I don't even like to say the 'other side' because there are so many sides, and breaking it down into us/them is oversimplifying - it allows us to treat people in a way that's incredibly destructive.

Maybe I was always more than one person, or even two. Maybe being on TV was just my job. People find it hard to get their heads around that. A couple of times I have shone a light on the other sides of my life, but I have learned to be cautious about that. Because people are only comfortable with the Noel Edmonds they see on television.

Throughout my journey, I just want to continue to showcase the different sides of me. Everything I do is easy if I have that logic.

Yeah, I've gotten to know the many sides of Richard Sherman as the years have passed. There's a lot going on with that guy.

I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don't always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.