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Quotes tagged “Contradiction”

“That was just a one-time thing I did twice.”
— Tuca, Tuca & Bertie, Season 1: The Sugar Bowl
Tagged: One-time Thing, twice, Contradiction
“The biggest criticism of my interviews is that I cut people off. I think my biggest asset is that I cut people off. It sounds like a contradiction, but the fact is you can’t allow people to drone on. You are the orchestra leader. You are the one who is saying, 'My audience wants something new. I gotta keep it fresh.' I don’t want my guests to bomb.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern's Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph
Tagged: interviews, Interrupting, audience, Contradiction
“I got away with everything under the last boss and it wasn't good for me. So I want guidance. I want leadership. Lead me... when I'm in the mood to be led.”
— Ryan Howard, The Office, Season 7: Search Committee
Tagged: Contradiction, Leadership, Mood, humor
“Jane: Looks like I'll be teaching at a Catholic high school.

Xiomara: Maybe you don't tell them you're a pregnant virgin.

Jane: The nuns or the high schoolers?

Alba: Both.”
— Jane Villanueva, Jane the Virgin, Season 1: Chapter Six
Tagged: Catholic, Religion, virgin, pregnant, Contradiction, Nuns, high school, Sassy
“Simple don’t mean easy.”
— Leonard Snart / Captain Cold, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Season 1: Blood Ties
Tagged: Contradiction, Simple, Easy, difficult
“Fire gives us life, but also has the power to destroy everything in its path.”
— Amaya Jiwe, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Season 2: Outlaw Country
Tagged: Fire, Life, Power, Destroy, Flame, Powerful, Destruction, Contradiction
“We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for this room or this music. But because we are here, let us dance.”
— Sadie Dunhill, 11.22.63, Season 1: The Day in Question
Tagged: Music, Invited, Hardship, grateful, Pain, Joy, relative, Life, Death, dance, Contradiction, Wisdom, Sage
“Good and bad, don’t get distracted by that. It will just confuse you. Good men do bad things, like Fred Johnson. And bad men do things believing it’s for the good of all mankind.”
— Anderson Dawes, The Expanse, Season 2: The Seventh Man
Tagged: Good and Bad, Confusion, Human Nature, Distraction, Ironic, Contradiction
“I ain't guilty. But I ain't innocent either.”
— Luke Cage, Marvel's Luke Cage, Season 1: Code of the Streets
Tagged: guilty, innocent, Contradiction
“Elliot: Carla, when I became Chief Resident, I wrote a pledge to myself. And do you know what it said?

Carla: Mm-mm?

Elliot: It said 'Dance like nobody is watching.' Which I do, constantly... in my living room, with the shades closed just in case somebody is watching. But it also said not to hide problems away.”
— Elliot Reid, Scrubs, Scrubs Season 4: My Malpractical Decision
Tagged: Dancing, Hide Problems, Dance Like Nobody Is Watching, Pledge, Contradiction
“Be cautious and bold.”
— P.T. Barnum, P. T. Barnum- The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money
Tagged: cautious, bold, Contradiction
“Contradiction exists in everyone. There's really nothing wrong with the fact that the same people who sing ‘Whiskey River’ at the show tonight also sing ‘Amazing Grace.’ When I was back teaching Sunday school, I used to teach the same people on Sunday mornings that I sang to on Saturday nights. Nothing wrong with that, either.”
— Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson on Marriage, Drugs, and Freedom
Tagged: Contradiction, Whiskey River, Amazing Grace, Sunday School
“It is no paradox to say that although comparatively weak the new-born nation was intrinsically strong.”
— Franklin Pierce, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 7
Tagged: Paradox, Absurd, Contradiction, contradictory, nation, Strong, strength, Society
“A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.”
— Deng Xiaoping, Wikiquote.org: Deng Xiaoping
Tagged: Contradiction, Contradict, Socialism, market, Economy, Society, civilization, Finance, People
“Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.”
— Brigham Young
Tagged: Religion, Science, Contradiction, Facts
“She scares the hell out of me and calms my soul at the same time. Maybe that’s what love is—a total contradiction that somehow balances out.”
— Tammara Webber, Where You Are (Between the Lines Book 2)
Tagged: Fear, Love, Feelings, Contradiction, Irony, Paradox
“In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death.”
— Gore Vidal, Creation: A Novel
Tagged: Life, Contradiction, Death, Birth, Cause
“When two intelligent people with opposite personalities fall in love, you have got one hell of a contradiction.”
— Lynette Simeone
Tagged: Love, Contradiction
“I’m always afraid of opening up when my mind is louder than my heart; afraid of what the monsters will let slip. I want to get the story out, but I keep swallowing my words and they crumble before I can put them down on paper.”
— Joshua Greenaway, Tumblr
Tagged: Truth, Contradiction, Confusion
“I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”
— Patti Smith, Just Kids
Tagged: Contradiction, Truth, Understanding, Learning, Growing, Friendship, weird loving friendship

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