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Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
John Hurt / Actor
Irony
Life Is
Paradox
Ironies
Paradoxes
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Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Edward Teller / Physicist
Paradoxes
Solution
Suggest
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He was self-sacrificing in many different ways, and my father was a man of paradoxes.
John Carter Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Different Ways
Paradoxes
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There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
Evan Parker / Saxophone Player
Concern
Contradiction
Paradox
Philosophical
Apparent
Contradictions
Paradoxes
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The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.
Ridley Scott / Film Director
Attraction
Absolute
Gangster
Paradoxes
Sphere
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I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.
Junot Diaz / Writer
Connections
Real
Thinking
Writing
Look People Real
Be Real
Paradoxes
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If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
Alan Watts / Philosopher
Paradox
Study
Writing
Always Will Find
Appear
Particularly
Will Always Find
Paradoxes
Writings
Zen
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
Wendell Willkie / Lawyer
Opportunity
Freedom
Society
Ignored
Nations
All Nations
Mocking
Paradoxes
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Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.
Andrew Hudgins /
Finality
Laughter
Logical
Paradoxes
Provoke
Terrors
Unsolvable
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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
Anatole Broyard / Writer
Love
American Literature
Forever
Hygiene
Literature
Looking Back
Nostalgia
Waiting
Writers
Wait
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I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.
Gretchen Rubin / Author
Aphorism
Maxims
Axiom
Collect
Complex
Distilled
Paradoxes
Proverbs
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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot / Novelist
Quality
Caustic
Fingers
Handle
Order
Play
Dead
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Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Philosopher
Men
Forgiving
Ordinary
Man Must May
Prefer
Being A Man
Man May Must
Forgive
Paradoxes
Readers
Reflects
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The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.
Amin Maalouf / Author
Christian
Holy
Identity
Islam
Language
Mother
Mother Tongue
Tongue
Arabic
Basic
Shaped
Paradoxes
Simultaneously
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I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.
Stevie Ray Vaughan / Guitarist
Confused
Focused
Real
Trying
Life Together My Life
Guess
Slowly
Paradoxes
Parts
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There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.
Paul Dirac / Physicist
Atoms
Confronting
Economic
Mysterious
Opinion
Similarity
World
Atom
In My Opinion
Present
Paradoxes
Provided
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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Marcel Proust / Novelist
Fashion
Fragile
Grace
Novelty
Prejudice
Tomorrow
Today Moment Tomorrow
Since
Deplorable
Lent
Moment
Paradoxes
Prejudices
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Ogden Nash / Poet
Morning
Bed
Every Night
Late
Night
Regret
Reluctance
Sleep
Bodies
Bundle
Early
Leave
Morning Night Late
Make Up
Minds
Paradoxes
Quit
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One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.
Simon Sinek / Author
Leadership
Best
Destination
Leader
Needs
Open Minded
Process
Stubborn
Vision
Both
Course
Stay
Must
Insist
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
Fernand Braudel / Historian
Inspirational
Motivational
Respect
History
Despite
Framework
Unity
General
Difficulties
Contradictions
Fundamental
Paradoxes
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My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.
Mike Mills / Composer
Dad
Ambiguity
Gay
Positive Influence
Weirdness
Writing
Downs
Paradoxes
Ups
Ups And Downs
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People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.
Neil Kinnock / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Agony
Better Off
Fishing
Real
Real World
Applied
Paradoxes
The Real World
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Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don't. In fact I'm not a supporter of the 'ancient alien' hypothesis at all. I think a lost human civilization is a much better explanation of the mysteries and paradoxes of ancient cultures.
Graham Hancock / Writer
Ancient
Built
Civilization
Explanation
Human Civilization
Hypothesis
Lost
Pyramids
Supporter
Alien
Believe I Believe Better
Cultures
Fact
In Fact
Mysteries
Paradoxes
People Say
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'Ida' doesn't set out to explain history. That's not what it's about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They're not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.
Pawel Pawlikowski / Filmmaker
Concrete
Ideology
Version
Explain
Illustrate
Paradoxes
Pawn
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My documentary 'Split Decision' examines Cuban-American relations, and the economic and cultural paradoxes that have shaped them since Castro's revolution, through the lens of elite Cuban boxers forced to choose between remaining in Cuba or defecting to America.
Brin-Jonathan Butler /
Boxers
Castro
Cuba
Decision
Economic
Revolution
Choose
Cultural
Documentary
Elite
Forced
Lens
Shaped
Paradoxes
Relations
Split
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The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.
Tim O'brien / Novelist
Experience
Being Human
Character
Fiction
Goal
Heart
Human Heart
Matter
Moral
Struggle
Person
Heart Your Feel
Feel
Writer
Any
Experience Heart Your
Hit
Fiction Writer
Neck
Through
Characters
Human
Suppose
Paradoxes
Struggles
Subject
Tear
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
Octavio Paz / Poet
Wit
Condemned
Contain
Discover
Dissipate
Inventions
Metaphors
Paradoxes
Reveals
Unite
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Disguising your own origins is a deeply American impulse, but that doesn't make it any less compromising. The way I live my life is to try to foreground the tensions and paradoxes of being a white person who's interested in racial justice and reconciliation, rather than disguise or obliterate them.
Jess Row / Short Story Writer
Disguise
Foreground
Impulse
Reconciliation
Compromising
Obliterate
Origins
Paradoxes
Racial
Tensions
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Trust me: you make a movie about time travel, and you know for a fact humans will never travel through time. The paradoxes that come up just from trying to tell a story with time travel really illuminates the fact that it's impossible. It will never happen. We can barely get through a movie that involves time travel.
Doug Liman / Film Director
Time Travel
Trust Me
Barely
Illuminates
Involves
Paradoxes
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I think people crave those meaningful situations, stuff about faith, identity, dilemmas of live paradoxes in our souls. It's going back to a time where lives were really defined by history, and also how you behave in the face of history. It's kind of interesting to go back to that simpler humanity, simpler but deeper.
Pawel Pawlikowski / Filmmaker
Behave
Crave
Deeper
Defined
Humanity
Identity
Interesting
Meaningful
Dilemmas
Paradoxes
Simpler
Souls
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Much of the conventional analysis of India's stature in the world relies on the all-too-familiar economic assumptions. But we are famously a land of paradoxes, and one of those paradoxes is that so many speak about India as a great power of the 21st century when we are not yet able to feed, educate and employ all our people.
Shashi Tharoor / Author
Analysis
Conventional
Educate
Great Power
Stature
Power Great World
Assumptions
Feed
Employ
Our People
Paradoxes
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