Complicated Things Quotes

• Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

  Jean Cocteau

  Fashion, Simple, Style

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.

  Lady Gaga

  Unique, Being Different, Complicated

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• I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Sex, Thinking, Keys

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• An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.

  Ray Dalio

  Moving, Complicated, Economy

  "CFR's CEO Speaker Series", www.cfr.org. September 12, 2012.

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• The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

  Shimon Peres

  Fear, Things In Life, Important

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• The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Retrospect, Sometimes, Complicated

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.52, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

  Bill Condon

  Together, Adults, Pieces

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• Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. ... In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Science, Views

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

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• I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying
  ordinance of the most extreme kind

  Milton Friedman

  Self, People, Maintenance

  Interview with Richard Heffner on "The Open Mind", December 7, 1975.

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• I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

  Heidi Klum

  Book, Clothes, Glue

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• In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

  Thomas Eakins

  Simple, Simplicity, Painting

  Thomas Eakins, Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art (1970). “Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York”

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• The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.

  Gerald Jay Sussman

  Keys, Knowing, Understanding

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• It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Enlightenment, Boots

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• But charity is a very complicated thing. Its important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.

  Roman Abramovich

  Squares, Important, Charity

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• I'd love to win trophies, be in movies, have a body of work I'm proud of and find a way to enjoy it along the way. Success is probably a more of a complicated thing than that.

  Demetri Martin

  Winning, Body, Proud

  "Demetri Martin on ‘Standup Comedian,’ Comedy Central, balance". Interview with Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. October 01, 2012.

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• [Do you know] how it feels to be a clownish character? It's always complicated to imagine conveying yourself outside of your body. Inside myself I feel like this rich, complicated thing, and then I see representations of myself, especially in the media - and I think this is why it's troubling for me, because I feel so caricatured and flattened.

  Kalan Sherrard

  Character, Thinking, Media

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• It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love, yet still holding love for him in my heart. No matter what he did, he was my father. He helped create the person I am.

  Hope Solo

  Pain, Father, Heart

  Hope Solo (2013). “Solo: A Memoir of Hope”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I think what we do is really, at times, a complicated thing. But at the end of the day it's so important that we make art for people that need to escape reality for a second. That's what music has always been for me. It's been a way to tap out of what's going on in my personal life.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Art, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have been dealing with those types of complicated things and my scholastic background, so I think that helps me - my nutrition and my understanding of the human body, and the processes for recovery and proper dietary restrictions.

  Chris Algieri

  Recovery, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Being vulnerable and strong is a complicated thing, but that's who we are.

  Jillian Hervey

  Strong, Who We Are, Complicated

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Feelings, Fluency

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

  Elena Ferrante

  Cutting, Self, Expression

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.301, Penguin

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• Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Simplicity, Needs, Complicated

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew...without even thinking about it.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Light, Smell

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