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• The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.

  Neil Diamond

  Simple, Trying, Few Words

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• Are you crazy? I don't want to wear ideas. I don't want to have all these complicated thing.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Crazy, Ideas, Want

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• Complicated things for me tend not to be interesting. Simple things, like when it's really direct eye contact, or when you see a really beautiful shape, like when it's clean or well balanced in the frame.

  Russell James

  Beautiful, Eye, Simple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The only complicated things worth fighting for will change the world in some way and/or make you lots of money, and a complicated relationship will only keep you from doing either.

  Ingrid Weir

  Change, Fighting, World

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• I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated. It's all about saying what the weather is like, and you're secretly telling someone you love them. You know what the English are like; they're very repressed people. You don't get that in India. India is incredibly un-cynical about love. It's a not a complicated thing. It's me, you, love. Let's go.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Like Love, Weather, People

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• I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I entered my teens, I got more into horror and science fiction and wrote a lot of short stories. A literary education complicated things and for many years I wrote nothing but poetry. Then I got back to story-telling.

  Peter Robinson

  Writing, Years, Robins

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

  Seth Lloyd

  Simple, Starting Over, Able

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• There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

  Vannevar Bush

  People, Complicated, Affair

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's just the opposite. You have to be able to see what looks like the most complicated thing in the world and, in a flash, find the underlying simplicity. That's what you need: a talent for simplicity.

  Mitchell A. Wilson

  Opposites, Simplicity, Needs

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• You will notice that the work is simple obedience. It is not complicated things, it is not fancy things or getting great spiritual manifestations. This work is within the abilities of the most humble and the least educated.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Education, Spiritual, Humble

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• Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary.

  Gregory Skovoroda

  Simple, Giving, Thanks

  "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, translated by P. Sekirin, 1997.

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• Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Life, Christian, Men

  "The Pursuit of God". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1957.

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• I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

  John Barth

  Simple, Talent, Complicated

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• I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.

  David Levithan

  Simple, Night, Forgotten

  David Levithan (2015). “Marly's Ghost”, p.46, Egmont UK

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• The room went dark and, after a moment, Grace whispered that she loved me, sounding a little sad. I wrapped my arms tightly around her shoulders, sorry that loving me was such a complicated thing.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sorry, Dark, Grace

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.740, Scholastic Inc.

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• The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

  Randall Munroe

  Roles, Complicated, Mechanic

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• That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Simple, Things In Life, Pockets

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.329, Penguin

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• It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Atheist, Drama, Struggle

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.112, Princeton University Press

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• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  E. B. White

  Pessimistic, Limits, Complicated

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• ...that's not why we broke up. I love it, I miss it, I hate to give it back to you, this complicated thing, it's why we stayed together

  Daniel Handler

  Hate, Giving, Missing

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• Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Inspirational, Memories, Criminal Mind

  "Fictional character: Emily Prentiss". "Criminal Minds: Foundation" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

  Noomi Rapace

  Dream, Crazy, Hollywood

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• Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.

  Elena Anaya

  Play, Complicated, Dangerous

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

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• Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose

  Richard Dawkins

  Giving, Purpose, Study

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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