What if [Saddam] fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear… — Tyler Burge Copy Share Image
In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly… — J. Michael Bishop Copy Share Image
In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous.… — Masashi Kishimoto Copy Share Image
Indira Gandhi had been this very powerful, dominating, ambiguous mother figure. Ambiguous because she was tyrannical, she had imposed...she had suspended Indian… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
The first principle, when you don't know anything about the subject of a thesis, is to let the candidate talk, nodding now… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
To be an actor is to be ambiguous in every form, which is a very hard way to live. You represent desire:… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
The American citizen lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. In… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form. — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people. — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“That´s the problem with the truth. Sometimes the truth is ambiguous, or really bad cliche.” — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
“Some things are just too unjust for words, and too ambiguous for either speech or ideas.” — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place. — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
TV is providing such amazing possibilities - you have such lively characters, fantastic stories and ambiguous messages, and viewers feel very satisfied. — Fedor Bondarchuk Copy Share Image
I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a… — David Cook Copy Share Image
What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz.… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
The Russian proposal is ambiguous. If they want to propose enrichment (only) in Russia we have said it is not acceptable. But… — Hamid-Reza Assefi Copy Share Image
The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that… — Charles Bartlett Johnson Copy Share Image
Skywhale is ambiguous. I think she is beautiful, but a lot of people think she is grotesque. You are drawn in and… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
When I first auditioned for Dexter... Well, I was sent the script, and I read it and loved it, and I knew… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
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