Complicated Quotes - Page 18

• I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me.

  Helmut Newton

  White, Special, Cameras

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• In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Citizens, Fabric, States

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• We are all so much more complicated than we allow ourselves to appear.

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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• The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white. Good and evil? There is no such thing. There is a little good and a evil, a little black and a little white. Grey is not an attractive colour, but perhaps it is the one that describes the world most accurately.

  Akif Pirincci

  Black And White, Evil, Upset

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• The secrets I receive reflect the full spectrum of complicated issues that many of us struggle with every day: Intimacy, trust, meaning, humor, and desire.

  Frank Warren

  Struggle, Issues, Secret

  "Frank Warren: Secret keeper". TED Speaker profile, www.ted.com. April 2012.

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• I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Team, Government, Cities

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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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• People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most underhanded forms of betrayal. It's a constant battle that rages within all of us, between the better angels of our nature and the temptations of our inner demons. And sometimes, the only way to ward off the darkness is to shine the light of compassion.

  Mary Alice

  Betrayal, Angel, Compassion

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• Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Civilization, Progress, Clarity

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• The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

  Misha Glenny

  Age, Desire, Pits

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• Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Opposites, Facts, Possession

  Blake Mycoskie (2012). “Start Something That Matters”, p.113, Random House

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• Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.

  Monica Dickens

  Joy, Riding, Never Quit

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• Nothing makes a person weaker than complicated thinking.

  Lee Jin-wook

  Thinking, Persons

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• How could anything so sublimely complicated not be the simple answer?

  John Diamond

  Simple, Answers

  John Diamond (2001). “Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations”, Random House

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• Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Sibling, Looks, Family Relationship

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• If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

  Steve Sabol

  Football, Falling In Love, Thinking

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

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• Is that what I wanted? To be in the middle of something complicated and dramatic? To be a cheerleader for someone else’s romance? Or to have a romance of my own?

  Kate Klise

  Romance, Cheerleader, Dramatic

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• Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.

  Adrian Tan

  Long, Trying, Life Is

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• There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  World, Way, Villain

  "Welcome to the N.H.K". Book by Tatsuhiko Takimoto, 2002.

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• History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story that could never be repeated.

  Edward Bloor

  Lonely, Unique, Earth

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• Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

  James W. Loewen

  Ideas, United States, Doe

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.83, The New Press

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• Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.

  Sivananda

  Hate, Simple, World

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• I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Believe, Simple, People

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• I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

  Bill Frisell

  Hate, People, Labels

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• Maybe young women don't wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of course you can have it all. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications. It will not be anything like what you think it will be like, but surprises are good for you. And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

  Nora Ephron

  Husband, Women, Thinking

  "Nora Ephron’s Famous TNora Ephron’s Famous Talk At Wellesley’s Graduation". www.mindingthecampus.org. 1996.

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