Contradictory Quotes - Page 7

• Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.

  Adam Rayner

  Motivation, Real, Sometimes

  "Adam Rayner Talks Tyrant, Joining the Show, Playing an Arab Character, Shocking Moments, Shooting the Pilot in Morocco, and His Character’s Motives". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 24, 2014.

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• [T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of the contradictory, the impossible, the irrational, and thus shake the concept of rationality in his victim.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.374, Hamilton Books

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• The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people-and this is true whether or not they are well-educated-is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations-in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.

  Michael Moore

  Stupid, Intelligent, Differences

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• I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then apply to it what intellectual & critical forces I possess—let it breed another, let that image contradict the first, make, of the third image bred out of the other two together, a fourth contradictory image, and let them all, within my imposed formal limits, conflict.

  Dylan Thomas

  Two, Intellectual, Together

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• Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

  Max Planck

  Science, Ideas, Scientist

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• Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Soul, Matter, Term

  Virchand Raghavji Gandhi (1993). “Religion and Philosophy of the Jainas”

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• I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do.

  Robert Fulghum

  Children, Breathing, Miracle

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.68, Ivy Books

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• I make my music to express everything I feel is necessary to communicate at a given time. Through music, I can express myself with statements that are more nuanced and more contradictory than factual details.

  Sophie

  Communicate, Factual

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Writing, Heart, Reality

  Interview with Kevin Murphy, www.oregonlive.com. July 2, 2009.

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• All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

  Edward Norton

  Fun, Character, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

  Doug Liman

  Independent, Attention, Directors

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• As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but bring your own thing to it." In a lot of ways they feel like opposites, but in a sense, my job is to cajole or encourage decisions that I approve of.

  Nico Muhly

  Jobs, Opposites, Play

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite.

  Laurence Sterne

  Thinking, Different, Shapes

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world.

  Otsuichi

  Gratitude, Children, Thinking

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• Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.

  Robin Wasserman

  Memories, Data, Imagination

  Robin Wasserman (2011). “Shattered”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.

  George Saunders

  Creative, Vision, Might

  "On 'Tenth of December': an interview with George Saunders". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2013.

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• We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.

  Karl-Johan Persson

  Jobs, Believe, Ambition

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• I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I am in fact looking for. Perhaps the best pictures are a seamless hybrid of discovery and construction.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Discovery, Sound

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• A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Two, Desire, Succeed

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• The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the contradictory idea is impossible; a proof of fact is where all the reasons lead to belief, without there being any pretext for doubt; a probability is where the reasons for belief are stronger than those for doubting.

  Andrew Michael Ramsay

  Ideas, Doubt, Stronger

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• There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.

  Sarah Fielding

  Marriage, Passion, Talking

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• We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'

  Albert Camus

  Real, Past, Life And Death

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.97, Vintage

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• Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.

  Tom Robbins

  Real, People, Rate

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.141, Bantam

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• When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?

  David Hume

  World, Stones, Coherence

  David Hume (1824). “The Philosophical Works of David Hume ... Containing Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Essays on the Immortality of the Soul, Suicide ... &c. A New Edition”, p.6

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• The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.

  Laurence Sterne

  Character, Men, Omission

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