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“I find it ironic that someone so ambivalent about living fights so hard to survive.”

— Denise Grover Swank

We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being.

— Samuel Florman

It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of…

— Barack Obama

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

— Erica Jong

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

— Elia Kazan

I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of…

— Helen Mirren

“The unconscious operation of the attachment system via internal working models probably plays an important part in the choice of marital partner and relationship…

— Jeremy Holmes

What does it mean then to live with one another? It can be unhappy, it can be wretched, it can be ambivalent, it can…

— Judith Butler

The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest.

— Ralph Regula

Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not…

— Andy Serkis

The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes…

— Sigmund Freud

When you 'make good,' you find out who your real friends are. You find out pretty quick. And it's a very ambivalent feeling, because…

— Greg Camp

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they…

— Vernon A. Walters

I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I…

— Valeria Golino