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• I'm constantly telling young people that their voices and stories are important. Making a movie is such a large-scale, intense operation that imagining that you "deserve" to be making it is - well, complex.

  Josephine Decker

  Voice, People, Important

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.

  Nick Hanauer

  People, Threshold, Happens

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Book, Self, Confusing

  "Guy Kawasaki Interview on His Latest Book – APE". Interview with Helen Nesterenko, writtent.com. March 10, 2017.

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• I never thought of myself as explaining cats in general. I simply viewed the cats I have known as characters in my life, often as quirky and complex as the humans with whom I have spent time.

  Marge Piercy

  Character, Cat, Quirky

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most of all, since that's where they do their work: in the unspoken complexities, understood off the page.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Heart, Simple, Mind

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as an adult and whether you have complexes or whether you need to prove yourself or all that kind of stuff and yet the mother in a traditional family who has raised a child never makes it in the history books.

  Rita Dove

  Mother, Children, Book

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Hard Work, Technology, Skills

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• Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don't go calling it nasty names like 'bizarre' or 'incredible'. The universe was propagating complex amplitudes through configuration space for ten billion years before life ever emerged on Earth. Quantum physics is not 'weird'. You are weird.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Reality, Years, Names

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• Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

  Amitai Etzioni

  Simple, Agendas, Faces

  Amitai Etzioni (1993). “The spirit of community: rights, responsibilities, and the communitarian agenda”, Crown

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• Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Military, Debt, Emergencies

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.564, Penguin UK

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• Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Intellectual, Mediocrity, Answers

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• The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an expression of all the emotions of the spirit, from the lowest to the highest. It accompanies and stimulates all the processes of life, from hunting and farming to war and fertility, from love to death. It enables, in turn other arts to come into being: music, song, drama. Despite all their riches, the dance is no formless complex, but a simple unity.

  Gerard van der Leeuw

  Song, Art, Drama

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• In the same way, the world is not the sum of all the things that are in it. It is the infinitely complex network of connections among them. As in the meanings of words, things take on meaning only in relationship to each other.

  Paul Auster

  Connections, World, Way

  Paul Auster (1982). “The Invention of Solitude”

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• Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.

  Fred Brooks

  Humanity, Software

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• I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let's just get out of this mess.

  Hafez

  Mind, Hundred, Court

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• Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

  Nicole Krauss

  Profound, Deeper

  "Nicole Krauss’ Plot Thickens". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2010.

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• The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Dream, Memories, Mind

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• First, creating moving-image particles using MoCap technology requires a very complex and long production pipeline. Moreover, rendering these particles takes a lengthy amount of time.

  Martine Epoque

  Moving, Technology, Creating

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In nations that have become too complex, taxes and regulation cause at least a doubling of the amount employers must spend on labor. Many experts call this 'progress,' but the natural result is that many companies respond by sending their operations and jobs to less costly nations.

  Oliver DeMille

  Jobs, Progress, Experts

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• Jefferson, Madison and many others taught that complex laws and codes were sure signs of oppression. They agreed with Montesquieu, Lock and Hume and that laws must be simple....and indeed that the entire legal code must be simple enough that every citizen knows the entire law. If a person doesn't know the law....he shouldn't be held liable for breaking it or freedom is greatly reduced.

  Oliver DeMille

  Simple, Law, Locks

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• A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.

  Nikola Tesla

  Stars, Fall, Eye

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “On Light and Other High Frequency”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• If you can do one thing you thought was utterly impossible, it causes you to rethink your beliefs. Life is both subtler and more complex than some of us like to believe. So if you haven't done so already, review your beliefs and decide which ones you might change now and what you would change those beliefs to.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Might, Causes

  Tony Robbins (2008). “Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• We are Germans. We are Armenians. French, Italian, Russian, American, Asian, African... many other nationalities. We are Christians, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu. We are black, we are white. We are a community of some many differences, so complex and yet so simple. We do not need to have war!

  Michael Jackson

  Christian, War, Italian

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• In the past few months I've become religious, I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that I now believe in god and creationism and intelligent design is because of Professor Richard Dawkins. Because when I look at something as complex and intricate and beautiful as Professor Richard Dawkins, I don't think that just could've evolved by chance! Professor Richard Dawkins was put there by god to test us, like fossils. And facts.

  Stewart Lee

  Beautiful, Religious, Believe

  "Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle/ Religion". Comedy, April 2009.

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• Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike.

  William O. Douglas

  Military, Subsidies, Degrees

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