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Quotes tagged ‘Contradiction’
The biggest criticism of my interviews is that I cut people off. I think my biggest asset is that I cut people off. It sounds like a contradiction, but the fact is you can’t allow people to drone on. You are the orchestra leader. You are the one who is saying, 'My audience wants something new. I got…
I got away with everything under the last boss and it wasn't good for me. So I want guidance. I want leadership. Lead me... when I'm in the mood to be led.
Jane: Looks like I'll be teaching at a Catholic high school. Xiomara: Maybe you don't tell them you're a pregnant virgin. Jane: The nuns or the high schoolers? Alba: Both.
— Paul Sciarrotta, Jane Villanueva, Gina Rodriguez, imdb.com
Simple don’t mean easy.
— Chris Fedak, Marc Guggenheim, Leonard Snart / Captain Cold, Wentworth Miller, imdb.com
Fire gives us life, but also has the power to destroy everything in its path.
— Chris Fedak, Amaya Jiwe, Maisie Richardson Sellers, imdb.com
We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for th…
Good and bad, don’t get distracted by that. It will just confuse you. Good men do bad things, like Fred Johnson. And bad men do things believing it’s for the good of all mankind.
I ain't guilty. But I ain't innocent either.
Elliot: Carla, when I became Chief Resident, I wrote a pledge to myself. And do you know what it said? Carla: Mm-mm? Elliot: It said 'Dance like nobody is watching.' Which I do, constantly... in my living room, with the shades closed just in case somebody is watching. But it also said not to hide pr…
Be cautious and bold.
Contradiction exists in everyone. There's really nothing wrong with the fact that the same people who sing ‘Whiskey River’ at the show tonight also sing ‘Amazing Grace.’ When I was back teaching Sunday school, I used to teach the same people on Sunday mornings that I sang to on Saturday nights. Noth…
It is no paradox to say that although comparatively weak the new-born nation was intrinsically strong.
A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.
Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.
She scares the hell out of me and calms my soul at the same time. Maybe that’s what love is—a total contradiction that somehow balances out.
In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death.
When two intelligent people with opposite personalities fall in love, you have got one hell of a contradiction.
I’m always afraid of opening up when my mind is louder than my heart; afraid of what the monsters will let slip. I want to get the story out, but I keep swallowing my words and they crumble before I can put them down on paper.
I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth