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I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

~Edward Norton

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There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit.

~Elliott Abrams

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Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence shines in its understanding of contradictions, keeping a comic distance from the emotional investment of teenagers that defined 'Ridgemont High' and later the adolescent angst movies of John Hughes.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Adolescent Angst Better Cohesion Comic Contradictions Defined Distance Emotional Girl High Hughes Intelligence Investment John Keeping Later Mean Movies Narrative Scene Shines Strength Teenagers Than Though Understanding Which Whole Works

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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

~Eric Hobsbawm

Topics: Against Contradictions Historians Justifies Makes Nation Nations One Nation Others Past People Produce Terms Who Without

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Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay, you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can. My characters are contradictory not only in their language but in their behavior as well.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Abandoned Am Because Behavior Characters Contradict Contradictions Contradictory Criticism Essay Full Inventing Language Only Perhaps Supposed Theater Various Well Write You Yourself I Am

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There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

~Evan Parker

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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

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To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory.

~Francois Truffaut

Topics: Almost Contradictions Contradictory Different Different Kinds Forced Kinds Many Must Surrounded Talents You

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Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.

~Gary Numan

Topics: Always Away Contradictions Difficult Disaster Going Life Live Lot Me Moody My Life Person Step Therapy Very

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Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Answers Capitalism Contains Contradictions Evolutionary Much Own Path Some Step Within

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