Mixed Feelings Quotes

• Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

  George Carman

  Confusion, Soul, Feelings

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• A lot of people enjoyed the film 'Haywire' and a lot of people have mixed feelings on it but regardless, a lot of people have said really wonderful things about it being my first experience, that the fighting they absolutely enjoyed. So I think I've gotten a lot more fans, actually.

  Gina Carano

  Fighting, Thinking, People

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• You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings.

  Sarah Kane

  Feelings, Messages

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.165, A&C Black

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• Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

  Matthew Specktor

  Hate, People, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with fluctuation - is a widened embrace. It's about the coexistence of things, and in that light, we have no choice in the matter.

  Charles D'Ambrosio

  Choices, Feelings, Contradiction

  "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.

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• Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

  W. H. Auden

  Expression, Feelings, Might

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• I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

  Taylor Swift

  Growing Up, Feelings, Heard

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• There's always mixed feelings about the work that I do. When you're playing a real person, that's another kind of responsibility. I have to say that every time that I have played a real person, even though I gave it everything I could, I feel like I misinterpreted trying to represent them. All the time I feel like I screwed it up! But I don't know if that's because I can't separate myself from it enough.

  Caleb Landry Jones

  Real, Responsibility, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up with such mixed feelings about LA, but I do love it. I grew up lectured by Woody Allen, for example, that LA was absurd, worthy of ridicule and contempt. Most people seem to describe Los Angeles as elementally despicable, or as someplace that requires an apology.

  Matthew Specktor

  Apology, People, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sounded like girls. Mixed feelings on that score. He didn't despise them with the same passion he used to. In fact, Benny suspected that there would come a time in the not-too-distant future when he might develop a mysterious interest in them.

  Eoin Colfer

  Girl, Passion, Feelings

  Eoin Colfer (2012). “Benny and Omar”, p.23, The O'Brien Press

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• I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.

  Craig Ferguson

  Thinking, Should Have, Poetic License

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• Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more and more artists are emerging with content that some would describe as less than meaningful.

  Eric Thomas

  Meaningful, Rap, Artist

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• I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

  Jello Biafra

  Rights, Issues, Feelings

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. April 9, 1997.

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• Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

  Honore de Balzac

  Compassion, Feelings, Curiosity

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• I know that when I look at today’s Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents seeking a better life in America. On the other side, however, open immigration can’t coexist with a strong social safety net; if you’re going to assure health care and a decent income to everyone, you can’t make that offer global. So Democrats have mixed feelings about immigration; in fact, it’s an agonizing issue.

  Paul Krugman

  Strong, America, Issues

  "The Curious Politics of Immigration" by Paul Krugman, krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. April 26, 2010.

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• We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.

  R. C. Sproul

  Running, Feelings, Want

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.35, Hendrickson Publishers

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• As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Hands, Feelings, Architect

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• Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing.

  Matthew Sweet

  Home, Thinking, Feelings

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• Being pregnant changes you as a human being and it gives you a whole lot of mixed feelings.

  Jason Reitman

  Giving, Feelings, Pregnant

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect. No sports writer would say, "Well the Yankees had a great season this year." No food critic would get a bad meal and say, "Oh, it was so lovely." It always strikes me as odd when people say, "Why do you write negatively about any art?" I think that everybody has mixed feelings about everything - even Goya. I mean, I look at Rembrandt sometimes and I hear a voice in my head go, "It's pretty brown."

  Jerry Saltz

  Sports, Art, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Poetry does so many different things, it's difficult to say anything definitive about its role, which of course varies from culture to culture. It can range from being stories of the tribe to the private lyric, to being as W.H. Auden said "the clear expression of mixed feelings" to nonsense verse.

  Stephen Dunn

  Feelings, Say Anything, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.

  Vivek Shraya

  Art, Responsibility, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've always had mixed feelings. I don't know if it's any better or worse. I do think there's a really boring side of what's going on now - the over-repetitive, oversexualized thing. There's a lot of women that know better, that are really beautiful and sexy, but it's like: We know you can shake your ass in a G-string and wave it around, it's not that risque. It's not dangerous. It's very obvious and boring.

  Neneh Cherry

  Beautiful, Sexy, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which sounds quite cowardly, perhaps, but it was the first manifestation of what is currently a really big issue: how political correctness defines the limits of what you can do. In that sense, it was super-exciting and maybe the most magical project we did, but at the same time fraught with mixed feelings.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Book, Issues, People

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

  John Henrik Clarke

  School, Decision, African American

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