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Even a lot of people who identify as being pro-choice, it's almost a reluctant, ambivalent pro-choice. There are some that celebrate it, but there are a lot in that choice community see it as the lesser of two evils in their own decision-making path. – Timothy Head	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Nightmares are really a common symptom of PTSD, people are terrified by their nightmares and always very ambivalent about whether to fall asleep or not because they know that they may meet their demons. – Yuval Neria	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It's a myth to say there was widespread public pressure on the administration to leave, the general public was ambivalent. This was a retreat of choice, not a retreat of necessity. – Peter Feaver	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There are a lot of people ambivalent about impeachment but nonetheless are disapproving of his conduct, which I expect is what will really matter electorally. – Geoff Garin	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
All our thoughts go to the families of the soldiers and to the soldiers who lost their lives to free us from this hell, we wanted to present our condolences right away to those families because we feel ambivalent about everything that happened to us. – Laurent Lassimouillas	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It was not an easy decision on their part and they had to think long and hard about it, and I think some of them still feel ambivalent about participating… One of the results of… ‘In Cold Blood' is that we have a lot of sympathy for the killers, because of how Truman Capote told that story… not excusing them for what they did, but seeing them as three-dimensional human beings. ..[and] all of these films kind of celebrate the killers in a perverse way…. the family felt very violated by the experience. They felt violated by ‘In Cold Blood.’. – Joe Berlinger	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We had no idea the film was going to garner so much recognition and so many viewers, at first I think Ra enjoyed the recognition, especially locally in northern New Mexico, though even then he was ambivalent about it. Later he grew weary of the attention and felt it was a distraction from the work. – Jeffrey Karoff	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Some clients have deep attachment issues, they don't know how to fit with a group or how to really bond with another human being. Or maybe they do bond but it's in an ambivalent way. – Carol Caddes	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession. – Primo Levi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral. – Vernon A. Walters	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Even a lot of people who identify as being pro-choice, it's almost a reluctant, ambivalent pro-choice. There are some that celebrate it, but there are a lot in that choice community see it as the lesser of two evils in their own decision-making path.

– Timothy Head

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Nightmares are really a common symptom of PTSD, people are terrified by their nightmares and always very ambivalent about whether to fall asleep or not because they know that they may meet their demons.

– Yuval Neria

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's a myth to say there was widespread public pressure on the administration to leave, the general public was ambivalent. This was a retreat of choice, not a retreat of necessity.

– Peter Feaver

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There are a lot of people ambivalent about impeachment but nonetheless are disapproving of his conduct, which I expect is what will really matter electorally.

– Geoff Garin

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

All our thoughts go to the families of the soldiers and to the soldiers who lost their lives to free us from this hell, we wanted to present our condolences right away to those families because we feel ambivalent about everything that happened to us.

– Laurent Lassimouillas

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It was not an easy decision on their part and they had to think long and hard about it, and I think some of them still feel ambivalent about participating… One of the results of… ‘In Cold Blood' is that we have a lot of sympathy for the killers, because of how Truman Capote told that story… not excusing them for what they did, but seeing them as three-dimensional human beings. ..[and] all of these films kind of celebrate the killers in a perverse way…. the family felt very violated by the experience. They felt violated by ‘In Cold Blood.’.

– Joe Berlinger

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We had no idea the film was going to garner so much recognition and so many viewers, at first I think Ra enjoyed the recognition, especially locally in northern New Mexico, though even then he was ambivalent about it. Later he grew weary of the attention and felt it was a distraction from the work.

– Jeffrey Karoff

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Some clients have deep attachment issues, they don't know how to fit with a group or how to really bond with another human being. Or maybe they do bond but it's in an ambivalent way.

– Carol Caddes

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.

– Primo Levi

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

– Vernon A. Walters

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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