I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much for sportswear. I think it's over.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

Power is paradoxical.

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

The whole notion of an alternative truth is a paradox. How can you have an alternative to truth?

Mastering the paradox of star brands is very difficult and rare - fortunately.

The imputation to Brodsky of Russian nationalist views is, of course, paradoxical and worth considering.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

I wrote a film for Tom Hanks and I wrote two films for Paul Greengrass that didn't actually happen. The paradox is that the bigger the film you write, the less likely it is to happen.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring.