Leila Slimani

A nanny is a woman who lives in an apartment, but the apartment is not her own. She raises children, teaches them how to walk, how to speak; she gives them food - but these children are not her children. So she is in a very ambiguous place.

French Writer

May Sarton

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

American Poet

Stefon Harris

What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.

American Musician

Jean-Michel Jarre

The whole 'Electronica' project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side, we have the world in our pocket; on the other, we are spied on constantly.

French Musician

Vladimir Putin

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

Russian Statesman

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

Italian Director

Nancy Kress

The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

American Writer

Alexei Sayle

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

British Comedian

Keith Richards

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

English Musician

Bernardo Bertolucci

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

Italian Writer

Be aware that ambiguous phrases can be interpreted in different ways.

Multiple Meanings

When clarity is essential, avoid ambiguous language to prevent misunderstandings.

Avoid in Clarity

Identify the author's intent by looking at the broader context around ambiguous words.

Clues in Context

An ambiguous smile could hide feelings or convey multiple emotions.

Interpreting Smiles

Authors often use ambiguous terms to add depth or mystery to their work.

Ambiguity in Literature

Legal documents should avoid ambiguity to ensure the meaning is clear and enforceable.

Legal Precision

Seek clarification when you encounter ambiguous statements to avoid wrong assumptions.

Question Ambiguity

 tell people no it's not that these tricks are meant to highlight shortcomings in how you perceive reality but I think that one of the cool things is that in a way knowledge is power so upon realizing that you have these shortcomings it might make you pay a little bit more attention into your day-to-day reality you realize that the world is a little bit more ambiguous and

Mind Blown - Hangout to...

 feel compassion for others especially the weak and vulnerable gives us very strong feelings about those who cause harm this moral foundation underlies about 70 percent of the moral statements i've heard here at ted the second foundation is fairness reciprocity uh there's actually ambiguous evidence

The moral roots of...

 if you see a kind of unfair or an ambiguous shaming, is to speak up, because I think the worst thing that happened to Justine was that nobody supported her -- like, everyone was against her, and that is profoundly traumatizing, to be told by tens of thousands of people that you need to get out.

How one tweet can ruin...

 which is, in addition to us being this miserably violent species, we're also this extraordinarily altruistic, compassionate one. So how do you make sense of the biology of our best behaviors, our worst ones and all of those ambiguously in between? Now, for starters,

The biology of our best...

 But she said it again. She said no. Did he listen to her words? In the age of Me Too and Time's Up, people ask me, "How do I even know what my partner wants and likes? Is all consent to be verbal and contractual now?" There are times when consent is ambiguous

The truth about unwanted...

 is based on a cyclical world view. So, it's rapidly changing, highly diverse, chaotic, ambiguous, unpredictable. And people are okay with it. And then globalization is taking place. The demands of modern institutional thinking is coming in.

East vs west -- the...

 simple word or in this case the absence of it can contain a world of meaning I'm particularly interested in the way we use language to regard and refer to the passing time the word now for example is so specific and yet so ambiguous now

Using language and time...

 And of course, the ambiguous figures that seem to flip-flop back and forth. It turns out what you're thinking about a lot influences what you tend to see. And you see the lamp here, I know. Because the lights on here.

The pattern behind...

 these eggs and the little turkey stopped immediately in his little shaking wet head rotated and he looked me square in the eyes and there was something very unambiguous transpired in that moment

Wild Turkeys Imprinting...

 because, if we accept at face value that humans are fundamentally selfish, and then we look around the world at all of the unambiguous prosperity in it, then it follows logically,

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