Complexes Quotes - Page 37

• In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Farewell, Responsibility

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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• The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational Life, Priorities, Firsts

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• I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

  Brian Eno

  Sound, Complicated, Rich

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• Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

  Brian Eno

  Messages, Rich, Certain

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• And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Feminist, Statistics

  Interview with J. Steven Svobod, www.warrenfarrell.org.

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• I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

  Jodie Foster

  Art, Creativity, Responsibility

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• Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

  Michel Foucault

  Strength, Power, Names

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.93, Vintage

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• If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.

  Michael J. Fox

  Running, Discipline, Would Be

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• Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

  Jamie Foxx

  Names, Eric, Bishops

  "Oprah Talks to Jamie Foxx". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2005.

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• We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

  J. William Fulbright

  Change, Thinking, World

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• What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

  Jerry Garcia

  America

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• Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

  Hamlin Garland

  Nature, Fall, Cities

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• The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Inspirational, Black History, Truth Is

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• The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Agents, World, Impossible

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.547, Basic Books

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• The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Leadership, Roles, Pieces

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• People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.

  Nadia Giosia

  Beautiful, Smart, Thinking

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• And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Goodbye, Done, Intense

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• It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

  Stone Gossard

  Personality, Balance, Jam

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• It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.

  Eva Green

  Taken, Character, Dark

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• My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.

  Grimes

  Block, Artist, People

  Interview With Durga Chew-bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Goal, Cynical, Terrorism

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas, p. 34, 2003.

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• Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

  Ernie Harwell

  Sports, Baseball, Simple

  "Ernie Harwell, in His Own Words" by Tyler Kepner, bats.blogs.nytimes.com. May 4, 2010.

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• We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

  Cullen Hightower

  Life, Imagination, Political

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• For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.

  Lauryn Hill

  Military, Past, Media

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

  David Icke

  Good And Bad, Situation, Term

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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