Complicated Quotes - Page 2

• Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Language, Translations

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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• Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

  Paul Rand

  Art, Simple, Design

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• The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

  Jasmine Guy

  Friendship, Country, Family Love

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• I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat

  Holly Hunter

  Lying, Littles, Stuff

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

  Charles Mingus

  Creativity, Simple, Plain Language

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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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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• Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

  Yahoo Serious

  Movie, Art, Gambling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

  Steven Weinberg

  Nature, Ugly, Want

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• A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

  August Strindberg

  Character, Simple, Men

  August Strindberg (2014). “The Son of a Servant”, p.181, The Floating Press

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• Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Football, Atoms, Tactics

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• It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

  Stanislav Grof

  People, Psychedelic, Young

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• The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.

  Walther Bothe

  Radiation, Process, Cosmic

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• It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

  Daniel Okrent

  Issues, Facts, Opinion

  "It's curtains for Okrent" by Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.

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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, Accounts

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• Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

  Terry Pratchett

  Trust, Clouds, Cocktails

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• Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Religious, Kindness

  "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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• It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

  Neil Finn

  Stupid, Long, Anxious

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• An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Men, Issues

  Joseph Conrad (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Conrad (Illustrated)”, p.5242, Delphi Classics

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• Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

  Milan Kundera

  Spiritual, Angel, Warrior

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• You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Book, Writing

  Boston Globe interview, January 4, 1987.

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• The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years

  Ednita Nazario

  Intelligent, Men, Air

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• Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

  Harold H. Greene

  Irs, Guidelines, Code

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• I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

  Rachel McAdams

  Kids, Thinking, Fairytale

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• Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

  Nick Hornby

  Sad, Bleakness, Flats

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• A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

  Paul Valery

  Men, Thinking

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