Ambivalent Quotes

39 quotes by 38 authors

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
In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion… — Brad Carson
I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about. — Emily Browning
I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels… — Emily Browning
Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex. — Etgar Keret
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillantâ€™s brilliant non-fiction about humankindâ€™s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now… — John Burnham Schwartz
Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact,… — James McGreevey
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
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost. — Anna Freud
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard… — Henry Louis Gates
No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have… — Colin Hanks
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 them.… — Helen Mirren
I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like… — Jane Pauley
His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the… — Freya North
I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far… — Sara Sheridan
I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could… — Valeria Golino
He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

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