Gene Luen Yang

Dichotomies are an inherent part of comics, aren't they? Comics are both pictures and words. They blend time and space. Many feature characters with dual identities like Bruce Wayne/Batman. Cartoonists also tend to live dichotomous lives because many of us have day jobs.

Chinese Writer

Porter Stansberry

There's been a dichotomy in the world financial markets over the last 30 years between the developed markets and the developing markets. Brazil, for example, always had to pay a lot more in interest to borrow money than governments in developed nations.

American Publisher

John Travolta

I'm realizing that for so much of my life I had an older viewpoint; I saw things as an older person. That's common among change-of-life babies. So I have this dichotomy where I'm either, like, super young or feel like I'm coming to the end of my years.

American Actor

Pablo Picasso

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Spanish Painter

Kathryn Stockett

What a dichotomy. What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.

American Novelist

Shura

On one level, I am a massive joker and can't take anything seriously, but on the other hand, I'm incredibly serious and a deep thinker, so I have that dichotomy within me.

English Musician

Joan D. Vinge

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.

American Author

Julian Barratt

For me, there's no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it's more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world.

English Comedian

Jeffrey Toobin

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.

American Lawyer

Eva Mendes

I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy.

American Actress

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In astronomy contexts, 'dichotomy' refers to a celestial body half-illuminated, like the first or last quarter moon.

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In botany, 'dichotomy' refers to a branch splitting into two, a pattern of plant growth.

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 and honesty and rawness. These are four very different ways of looking at the world. I even gave them the classicist, the animist, the formalist and iconoclast. Interestingly, they seem to correspond more or less to Jung's four subdivisions of human thought. And they reflect a dichotomy of art and delight on left and the right;

Scott McCloud:...

 So what I hope is that, not only can the money keep flowing forth through Kiva -- that's a very positive and meaningful thing -- but I hope Kiva can blur those lines, like I said, between the traditional rich and poor categories that we're taught to see in the world, this false dichotomy of us and them, have and have not.

Jessica Jackley:...

 However, our stories are much more than this rigid dichotomy of strength and resilience. We are expanding the human complexity on these margins, and we are creating freedom on these margins. And we don't have any blueprints. We're creating a world that we have literally never seen before;

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 could not attract her attention but something a thing did now most of us make a big dichotomy between the world of things and the world of people now for this girl that division line is not so clear and the world of people is not attracting her as much as we

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 And when these concepts underlie our teaching and what we think about the world, then we have a problem, because we stymie support for everything. By accepting this dichotomy, whether it's tongue-in-cheek, when we attempt to accommodate it in our world,

Mae Jemison on teaching...

 materials being low value at their end of life and so they're not recovered because there's not as much plastic there so it's sort of this dichotomy and tension there because it maybe saves on one end but it actually in terms of a

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 whose training has really been about saving lives, not about gently guiding the patient to the end of life. The dad of a sweet baby for whom we cared at the end of her life certainly captured this dichotomy when he reflected

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 He went on. He said we need to look after our own backyard first. This is, I believe, outdated, even dangerous thinking. Or as my late grandfather would say, complete BS. Parochialism offers this false dichotomy

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 only because we're not familiar with it, or we haven't taken enough time to try and understand. In most cultures around the world, gender is this man-woman dichotomy.

The gender-fluid history...

 So I could not attract her attention, but something -- a thing -- did. Now, most of us make a big dichotomy between the world of things and the world of people.

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