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I can be as contrary as I choose.
My father was a very contradictory man.
I like characters who are contradictory.
[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.
I can't stand characters with contradictory information.
There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
Contradictory strands create an essay that's richly ambivalent.
Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.
Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.
If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection
One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.
I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
We've got a great team sport, but we harp on about individuals. It's a bit contradictory.
To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain.
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.
Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
Evangelicals always assume that humor and faith are contradictory. It's OK to smile, to be nice, but not frivolous.
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
I am constantly evolving. If I believe in a particular philosophy today, I may have a contradictory opinion tomorrow.
I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.
I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.
Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow.
Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.
The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.
There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.
It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
My biggest flaw is probably my attention span or lack thereof. And while it might seem contradictory, my biggest strength is my work ethic.
If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain.