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• Life is just too short, too unpredictable and too complicated. Be happy no matter what, a smile sometimes is all you need

  Shahid Kapoor

  Needs, Matter, Sometimes

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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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• Then people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple, when, in actuality, women are complicated, women are multifaceted - not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Crazy, Simple, People

  "A teen just trying to figure it out". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March, 2012.

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• I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Thinking, Connections, Actresses

  "‘Suburgatory’ Star Ana Gasteyer Talks New Show And ‘SNL’ Past". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.

  Melissa Gilbert

  Mother, Daughter, Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Stuff, Ingredients, Cookbook

  "Trisha Yearwood on simple cookin' and Garth". www.today.com. November 5, 2009.

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• Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.

  Michael Denton

  Men, Cells, Atoms

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• Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself, or desire to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding.

  Andre Comte-Sponville

  Simple, Thinking, Rose

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• If your version of pub food is microwaving a pie and some baked beans, then yeah, it's really complicated cooking. But if it's just about getting the best out of simple ingredients, then it's not.

  Tom Kerridge

  Simple, Pie, Cooking

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• However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.

  Alexei Sayle

  Memories, Vivid, Facts

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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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• Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

  Philip Greenspun

  Half, Bugs, Common

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• Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

  A. N. Wilson

  Birthday, School, Exercise

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• Do not look for signs.
  Do not look for experiences.
  Do not be so complicated.
  Become like a child.
  See everything with awe.

  Robert Adams

  Children, Looks, Awe

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• Unlike wizards, who like nothing better than a complicated hierarchy, witches don't go in much for the structured approach to career progression. It's up to each individual witch to take on a girl to hand the area over to when she dies. Witches are not by nature gregarious, at least with other witches, and they certainly don't have leaders.
  Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have.

  Terry Pratchett

  Girl, Hands, Careers

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• If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stories, Maps, Ifs

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• The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were not concerned in the execution of it. Adding to these considerations the natural diversity of human opinions on all new and complicated subjects, it is impossible to consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

  James Madison

  Diversity, Miracle, Degrees

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.27, University of Virginia Press

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• Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

  Max Horkheimer

  Philosophy, Procedures

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• No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Moving, Heart

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.446, Best Books on

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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, Affair, Plenty

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Fall, Categories

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• I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

  James Patterson

  Life Is, Plans, Knows

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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• As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Urban Renewal, Years

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.13, Vintage

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• In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Pieces, Steam

  Andrew Carnegie (1992). “The Andrew Carnegie reader”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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• In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these questions in a non-polemic, fictional way: you get to feel out territory rather than take positions. Through writing this, I can understand the impulse to faith, how people make meaning, how people make community, without having to say, do this, don’t do that, or I believe, I don’t believe.

  Hari Kunzru

  Fashion, Believe, Writing

  "Starting into the void with Hari Kunzru" by Rollo Roming, www.newyorker.com. March 13, 2012.

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