Neera Tanden Quotes

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

When it comes to politics, there's never a certain yes or no to any situation.

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

I think, in reality, opinions don't matter that much.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.

No one always or never does anything. People don't see themselves as one-dimensional, so you shouldn't attempt to define them as such.

I don't accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

History is a never ending argument.

History is complex.

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don't want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone.

Humans are the most complicated, nuanced things that exist. We can't be reduced to labels or summed up with five traits - even if they are the Big Five.

When I first went to Israel, I saw soldiers pushing Palestinians around and thought, 'I can't stand this'. Then I'd meet somebody in a bar saying what wonderful people the Palestinians are and what mamzers the Jews are, and I'd think, 'Hang on'. It should be hard to make up your mind on any serious subject.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

Things aren't black and white in the world.

He speaks truly who speaks the shade.

The same words come from each mouth differently.

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.

Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes.