“Nothing abstruse or ambivalent about it, not a speck of the metaphoric or the symbolic.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I find it ironic that someone so ambivalent about living fights so hard to survive.” — Denise Grover Swank Copy Share Image
“If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one. ” — Robert LeFevre Copy Share Image
I am ambivalent about London because I am so ambivalent about England in general. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
When asked at age 7 whether he had ambivalent feelings about girls. No, I hate 'em! — Colin Johnson Copy Share Image
“…it was but one of the things that made friendship with me an ambivalent enterprise.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do you know… — Robert Pozen Copy Share Image
I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it. — Don Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Siblings may be ambivalent about their relationships in life, but in death the power of their bond strangles the surviving heart. Death… — Barbara Ascher Copy Share Image
We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it… — Valeria Golino Copy Share Image
I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people... sort of like saying, once you… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“The ambivalent strategy involves clinging to the care-giver, often with excessive submissiveness, or adopting a role-reversal in which the care-giver is cared… — Jeremy Holmes Copy Share Image
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Sometimes compromise is important. Sometimes it's better to give in to someone else's wishes in order to have fun as a group… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could. — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.” — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
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