Ambiguous Quotes

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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is. — Bernardo Bertolucci
The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at… — Nicolas Cage
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Carl Sagan
Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle. — Griffith Edwards
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there… — G. H. Hardy
My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. — Odilon Redon
Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable… — J. Michael Bishop
The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert. — Gregg Easterbrook
In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them.… — Isabelle Huppert
The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what… — Emily Blunt
What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on… — Brian Eno
I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous. — Keith Richards
Eva is a story ofÂ repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly picks himself back… — Hideaki Anno
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down. — Stephen Rea
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who… — Mary Jo Bang
As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body.Â I… — Del LaGrace Volcano
Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. — Pier Paolo Pasolini
Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is… — Pier Paolo Pasolini
I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually. — Tennessee Williams

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