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I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!


Marko Stout

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KINGMAN BREWSTER, JR. I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.
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MARKO ŠELIć That's a huge advantage, because gaps in the data introduce ambiguity.
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KEVIN MCHALE All knowledge is ambiguous.
J. S. HABGOOD The bottom line for policy appears ambiguous.
BEN BERNANKE It is ambiguous somewhat intentionally.
JUDY BIFFLE Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
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EMILY BLUNT It's very ambiguous. It was specifically written to be ambiguous.
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HUGH PRATHER Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.
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LEO ROSTEN Even righteousness is an ambiguous thing.
NADIA HASHIMI Ambiguity supposes eventual resolution of itself whereas certitude implies further ambiguity.
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SIGMUND FREUD I shall leave you with an ambiguous answer.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Your ability to handle ambiguity in real life situations will give you the extra edge to win!
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ERIC WEINER Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.
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MOLLY O'KEEFE I don't know if there is any ambiguity to it. I don't take what he said lightly.
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GILDA RADNER The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
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PIER PAOLO PASOLINI The more I protested about this ambiguity, the more Joanna pointed out to me that it was both a terr...
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SUE GRAFTON Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
THEODOR WIESENGRUND ADORNO Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
THEODOR W. ADORNO Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
THEODOR ADORNO Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.
C.G. JUNG Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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KURT BUSCH Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!
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LAWRENCE LESSIG On most nights, if Crawford and Stout go 4-for-19, we're going to get beat by a lot.
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JON RONSON All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
KINGMAN BREWSTER The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
E. L. DOCTOROW It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.
JOHN UPDIKE Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
GEORGE BURNS Ambiguity is Vajpayee's strength, ... His roots are in poetry and literature, and I think that's a b...
MAHESH RANGARAJAN The beauty of the picture is that there is a little ambiguity in it ... To me it showed compassion b...
JAMES COLTON I look for energy, charisma -- I look for people who obviously have a level of business savvy and ac...
KARA UDELL It is going to be a good match. Pueblo has a pretty stout crew this year.
BOBBY DEBERRY If I take refuge in ambiguity, I can assure you that it's quite conscious.
FRANK BOYDEN Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
HORACE There's nothing ambiguous about the findings.
ELAINE OSTRANDER The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
SCOTT TUROW I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical s...
SUSAN COLLINS Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
TONY GILROY I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.
LAURA DERN All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ...
EDWARD NORTON Look at the present because that is where you will spend the rest of your life.
JIM GENOVESE Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women
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DIANA GABALDON Another reason Westerners are tempted to compromise is because we tend to view the world dualistical...
E. RANDOLPH RICHARDS If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
KINGMAN BREWSTER, JR. I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
ANONYMOUS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE F. BURNS That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.
AMIRI BARAKA He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing.
LIONEL SHRIVER The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and d...
DANIEL QUINN I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I.
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P.D. JAMES To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is sy...
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