And then there was of course this massive technological shift, the invention of writing, and you had people who were objecting to that; 2500 years ago Socrates was at the very least ambivalent and maybe even up in arms about this new invention called writing and he said, "Writing is gonna make people dumb.People are gonna start taking ideas out of their minds, putting them down on papyrus and thinking that they're still smart when in fact they're just gonna be like empty vessels.
I think you're right on Singapore. I'm ambivalent about Singapore. I think what Singapore is doing on their Smart Nation initiative is interesting.
Well, I've said a number of times, we need to make every day Martin Luther King Day. So I'm always ambivalent about celebrating months, but I do think it's great to call attention to the remarkable contributions of. Latinos I'm going to be hosting an event this week at the Department of Labor very similar to this
I carried this little cartoon around in my pocket for probably 25 years and then recently got up the courage-- I don't know why I felt ambivalent about it. But I tracked down and contacted the author-- he's a cartoon journalist, Andy Singer, in Minneapolis-- and received permission to use it.
We don't need to say much about that. What's more interesting is these ambivalent cases. So, the predator-- the person who is competent, but really doesn't have your interests at heart-- this is the person that we tend to resent.
that most lucrative of political emotions, fear, and they have done it extremely well so that by now, a year after 9/11, we've seen major attack on the Administration over the There's no question about that and one shouldn't be ambivalent about answering that.
necessarily a bad idea from the view of South Korea? I think South Korean response to this has been more muted and quite ambivalent . And it's a bit of a mixed message, right? Because on one hand, South Koreans are concerned that this is almost seen as, you know, Mr. Trump
They celebrate together, weddings, births, deaths. And so one of the amazing things is that authorities are often ambivalent towards moto drivers, as they associate them with crime and disorder.
Male Presenter: So, how did you guys approach "Dark Side of The Moon?" Were you consciously thinking "This is gonna be it? Actually, I'm far more ambivalent about tribute bands.
mirror of people looking into their own spirits and as more and more complex more dissonant constructs and sound were examined it enabled them to kind of look at the complex ambiguous and ambivalent nature of their own emotions and then we'll come back to we're in kind of now in this third age
And to be fair, it is all of those things. And I'll be honest, a lot of them were very ambivalent about talking about Asian issues, about speaking for the community, about engaging in these things.
And that's just 21 minutes a day, right? And those of us who do didn't are often confused about it, and ambivalent , and anxious, and feel shamed and nagged, and fed up with the whole talk. And so if you're one of those, you, probably the last thing you want to do is to see a book about exercise and somebody
And I think I just needed to be honest for me and for us. Yeah, it almost seems like it's a betrayal to have ambivalent feelings about your own immigration. Mm-hmm. And it's funny, right?
of the things that historians have almost all agreed on is that a kind of shared patriotism made American science what it was. But throughout most of the country, these people had ambivalent allegiances at least, and some of them were directly hostile to US rule, right? So Dunbar really became a master of manipulating imperial officials and sort of having this in-between status between these empires in order
So I think what the Estonians are doing is interesting. As you can tell from the Singapore chapter, I'm a little bit more ambivalent . But I think it's too easy for British or American people to write off the Singapore experiment.
They didn't know that. I go, oh, the ambivalent terrorist, that's interesting.
Find something that people are super into, rather than the kind of slightly ambivalent thing that occasionally I might dip in or out of.
And if we did our job right, for you to actually feel progressively more ambivalent about the villains, and go Jesus, they do have a story.
It was a vegetable in the way it reproduced, and it was sort of ambivalent with the question about blood.
Now I don't know about you, but I have a very ambivalent relationship to receiving feedback.
So I don't know. I it's one of those sort of ambivalent things is that meeting girls where they're at and encouraging them to do something that might not ordinarily do or
I found myself, curiously enough, in this ambivalent situation about faith, because one has to concede the fact that religion has been misused and abused and people have
This piece will be more persuasive, he wrote in another, if, ironically, it's more ambivalent and less political.
And I wanted to write, like, a kind of uber-masculine guy who does the things-- like, he doesn't-- he's ambivalent about wanting a relationship; he goes out on a couple of really good
That was me. I wouldn't say that I hated celebrity news, I just was kind of ambivalent about it or bored by it.
Male #4: In his book "The Comedians," set in the Papa Doc era Haiti of the '60s, Graham Greene's ambivalent hero describes the Trianon Hotel he's returning to.
And I didn't. And in fact, even once I'd made up my mind that I would reveal myself, I continued to be very ambivalent about that reveal to the person that I'd selected to reveal, to
Dan Sinker: I'm very much so. And so yes. I was very ambivalent about the reveal.
life might get a little crazy when this comes out. And as a result, I'm very ambivalent about it coming out. And I want it to come out the right way, if it does."
who's a literary critic, an eco-critic and who talks a lot about sound art and producing this literally ambivalent world in which there's things that are in foreground and in the background,