Complicated Quotes

• Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• My life is very complicated. I have a lot of things going on. I am juggling a lot of responsibilities. There is so much going on that it is astounding, it really is.

  Michael Jackson

  Responsibility, Life Is, Juggling

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• This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Spiritual

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p.52), 1990.

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• The only way that you can keep moving forward, finding other ways of expressing things about this increasingly complicated world that we live in, is by listening and observing not only to life around you but to the other people who are in the room. It's not about a sort of, you know, a sense that you have to be democratic about these things, it's a question of creativity that the process of making theatre is a collaborative process, and it is not in, it is not a question of, you know, I have no interest in paying lip service to it, for me it's absolutely fundamental.

  Simon McBurney

  Moving, Creativity, Complicated World

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• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beauty, Art, Would Be

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.303, Univ of California Press

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• I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

  Frank Sinatra

  Cat, Secret, Goes On

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• You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

  Julia Child

  Positive, Food, Health

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Nov 26, 2015

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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 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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• Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Political, Politics, Serious

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• I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.

  Mel Gibson

  Way, Lethal Weapon

  "Fictional character: Martin Riggs". "Lethal Weapon", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Communication, Simple

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.23, HarperCollins Leadership

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• I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

  James D. Watson

  Science, Thinking, Years

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• In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet, Stories

  Life magazine, p. 98, June 11, 1965.

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• I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Simple, Way, Difficult

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• I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!

  Lisa Loeb

  Would Be, Want, Baking

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• I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Intelligent, Becoming, Composer

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• In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Government, Political, Firsts

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• You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

  Mark McGrath

  Simple, Labels, Want

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• It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Simple, Balance, Too Much

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• Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

  Frederick Lewis Allen

  People, Looks

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• I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

  Morton Feldman

  Memories, Recipes, Taste

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Simple, Ideas, Paper

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• The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Numbers, Issues, Today

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• The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

  Rebecca West

  Truth, Simple, Men

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Meaning of Treason”, p.426, Open Road Media

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