#contradictions

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions. ↗

— Maxine Hong Kingston

#i #large #learned #make #mind

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#character #complex #compromised #contradictions #contradictory

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#belong #contradictions #each #european #european union

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster. ↗

— Gary Numan

#away #contradictions #difficult #disaster #going

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. ↗

— Evan Parker

#apparent #concern #contradictions #many #me

I'm full of contradictions. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#full #i

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#insanity #intelligence #intelligence

Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#contradictions #cure #drugs #life #problems

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#become #begins #continue #contradictions #find

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#contradictions #find #going #i #i write