Complexes Quotes - Page 23

• Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick a metaphor it will guide your thinking.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Thinking, Metaphor, Guides

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• I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and I'm dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide.

  Eva Green

  Dream, Character, Giving

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• We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.

  Henry Rollins

  Distance, Safe, Failing

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• The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

  Henry Rollins

  Military, Kids, Criminals

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• With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

  Henry Rollins

  Risk, Age, Levels

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• Today's customer journey is an iterative, complex, pinball of touchpoints.

  David Louis Edelman

  Journey, Today, Pinball

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• America cannot afford a rally to restore sanity in the middle of a recession. Did you even consider how many panic-related jobs that might cost us in the fear-industrial complex?

  Stephen Colbert

  Jobs, America, Cost

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• Everyone wants answers and wants to know what the timeline is. Unfortunately, it's a complex situation, and we don't have the final answers yet.

  Dennis Miller

  Finals, Answers, Want

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• Does anyone know... does the Christian persecution complex have an expiration date? Because... uh... you've all been in charge pretty much since... uh... what was that guys name... Constantine. He converted in, what was it, 312 A.D. I'm just saying, enjoy your success.

  Jon Stewart

  Christian, Names, Guy

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• I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.

  Shelley Berman

  Men, Talking, Cost

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• The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the whole, that is, a creature on a star among stars.

  Paul Klee

  Stars, Artist, Cameras

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.154, Parkstone International

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• When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Nuance, Details, Snapshots

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.44, Univ of California Press

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• Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea?

  Greg Giraldo

  Korea, Napoleon Complex, Know How

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• I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.

  Jeb Bush

  Simple, Problem, Solutions

  "Is the Age of Bush Over? Jeb Needs to Step Up His Game If He Is Going to Take Back the GOP" By David Paul, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.

  John F. Kerry

  Simple, Emotional, Needs

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• The way a film is made tells you about its message. The processes are the same as the products. We made the film starting from processes that allowed us to find these complex ideas.

  Alex Abreu

  Ideas, Way, Messages

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• That's really why I wanted to do it. I wanted to be a part of this generation's telling of Camelot, and also get the chance to play a fantastic, complex, interesting, emotionally passionate, young lead role.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Play, Interesting, This Generation

  Source: collider.com

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• Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex. And it puts what you do in perspective, and people don't like to see themselves or their activities in perspective. They don't feel quite comfortable with that. Nobody wants to acknowledge the insignificance of his life, and that is very often the net result of reading a poem.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Reading, Perspective, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I just wanted to show the migrants as complex humans with flaws and weakness, with good and bad things, and show that they're parents and family men. I wanted to show them with everything, as they are.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Men, Parent, Weakness

  Source: collider.com

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• I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Thinking, Trying, Want

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

  Rick Moody

  Fall, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.

  Rick Moody

  Thinking, Narrators, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad photography. By good is meant that photography which accepts all the limitations inherent in photographic technique and takes advantage of the possibilities and characteristics the medium offers. By bad photography is mean that which is done, one may say, with a kind of inferiority complex, with no appreciation of what photography itself offers: but on the contrary, recurring to all sorts of imitations.

  Tina Modotti

  Photography, Appreciation, Art

  Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1982). “Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti”

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• My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect for grammar. The form then Denver 39 is second hand to nothing. The work then has a chance to electric service become its own cliché. Luggage. This is the inevitable fate fair ground of any inanimate object freightways by this I mean anything that does not have inconsistency as a possibility built in.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Mean, Fate, Hands

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• It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Clouds, Black, Invisibility

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