Complexity Quotes - Page 24

• I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.

  Julian Jarrold

  Character, Bored, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm inordinately proud of Smash, on so many levels. The complexity of producing that show, every week, is just incredible. As a television producer and as a Broadway producer, which I once was, I am in awe of what we can do on that show, every week.

  Robert Greenblatt

  Television, Levels, Broadway

  Source: collider.com

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• It is incredibly daunting to take on a live-action story. I think that it adds a level of complexity to the responsibility that goes beyond what I've experienced on these two films (The Lorax and Horton Hears a Who).

  Christopher Meledandri

  Responsibility, Thinking, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• Mann's sexuality and his attitudes towards it are extremely complex - and the complexities are inherited in the figure of Aschenbach. Mann had lived through a series of (almost certainly unconsummated) relationships with young men.

  Philip Kitcher

  Attitude, Men, Sexuality

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Of course you have days that are long, you're tired, and things aren't working out, and you can get frustrated, but I would say any of the things that make it less glamorous or cause some complexity or turn you down the road you weren't expecting to go down is a part of the thrill.

  Ellen Page

  Tired, Long, Work Out

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Although I don't disagree that utterances express desires and try to make complexities precise, I actually don't think at all that any of our efforts to speak and mean things are ultimately why we speak.

  Paul Fry

  Mean, Thinking, Effort

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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• And this is also what he takes Christian doctrine, in all its complexity, to be centrally about, that is, teaching an attitude rather than a set of propositions. Call it joyous openness to life. What's not relevant about that?

  George Pattison

  Christian, Attitude, Teaching

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a disadvantage, because the reader has to concentrate much more than when they're looking at a canvas. It gives the author, on the other hand, the opportunity to feel like a creator: they can offer their readers a world in which there's room for everyone, as every reader has their own reading and vision.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Reading, Opportunity, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When people want to sound smart, they add syllables to words, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to books. They try to make up in quantity and complexity what they lack in quality. That's bullshit! They're just hiding their bullshit!

  Robert McKee

  Smart, Book, People

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• One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and create an atmosphere of complexity.

  Astra Taylor

  Philosophy, Technology, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

  Alex Lemon

  Needs, Alive, Grit

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I never meet a church that wishes they didn't do it. I never meet a leader that wishes they didn't do it. They will all say, to the person, it's hard. It's difficult. It comes with complexities and confusion as you're trying to go across cultures, and you don't understand, you didn't mean to offend somebody but you've offended somebody. But they will all say it just does something.

  Michael Emerson

  Mean, Confusion, Leader

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We're looking at complexity. We're looking at blond kids in Beverley Hills who can speak Spanish because they have been raised by Guatemalan nannies. We're looking at Evangelicals coming up from Latin America to convert the U.S. at the same time that L.A. movie stars are taking up Indian pantheism.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Stars, Latin, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that it doesn't really pay attention to the complexity and the nuance that is feminist thought.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, Feminist, Attention

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only as vulnerable beings in need of love and care but as a moral touchstone amidst the complexity and contentiousness of modern life.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Important, Needs

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• I think from age 13, 14, 15, I thought, yes, this rich studio produced music is the future, but it can't be the future to go run away into the recording studio. How can we take that kind of complexity and richness and make it possible for people to touch it and play it live. That's what hyperinstruments are.

  Tod Machover

  Running, Thinking, Play

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm not against paying at all. What I'm against is the complexity of paying. And you very often go to a website and you try to click on something and sometimes it will even say it's free, but you have to fill out this form.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Trying, Sometimes, Form

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 4, 2009.

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• The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Order, Civilization

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• The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean that the world is just extremely complicated - lots of different and competing stories and strands; the continuing reality of megaterrorism; and the dysfunctionality of our politics that has neglected the foundations of the U.S. role in the world; have altogether left us somewhat confused.

  Graham T. Allison

  Confused, War, Mean

  "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

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• When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any of the other possibilities I consider in X-Events, we will suffer a complexity overload.

  John L. Casti

  Euro Crisis, Suffering, Events

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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• From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an ever-increasing level of complexity. At some point, this complexity reached a point where even the creators of the derivatives themselves didn't understand them.

  John L. Casti

  Levels, Derivatives, Financial

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Giving, Credit

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• We're looking at such enormous complexity and variety that it makes a mockery of "celebrating diversity." In the L.A. of the future, no one will need to say, "Let's celebrate diversity." Diversity is going to be a fundamental part of our lives. That's what it's going to mean to be modern.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mean, Diversity, Needs

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Talking, Two, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.1071, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is extremely difficult.

  Bill Gates

  Different, Cases, Difficult

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