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• There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

  Bill de Blasio

  Struggle, Thinking, Complicated World

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

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• Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated

  James W. Pennebaker

  Rockets, Rocket Science, Humans

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• Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.

  Michael Pollan

  Order, Confusing, Healthy

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.12, Penguin

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• I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.

  Tim Harford

  Motivation, Inspiration, Complicated World

  "Trial, error and the God complex". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• [Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

  Danny Hillis

  Motivation, Confused, Inspiration

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• [Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things together because it makes a difference.

  Bonnie Bassler

  Motivation, Inspiration, Differences

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• Questions [about our healthcare system] are not hard because the answers are complicated, they are hard because they require that we be honest with ourselves.

  Rebecca Onie

  Motivation, Inspiration, Answers

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• You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.

  Peggy Noonan

  Real, Thinking, America

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• There are two great systems in the body of man: the tree of life, which is the arterial with its roots in the heart; and, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, i.e. the nervous system, which has its roots in the brain. These two "trees" are physical manifestations of a complicated network of branching energy currents in the aura or superphysical bodies.

  Manly Hall

  Heart, Men, Two

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• Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Breathing, Long, Existence

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2006.

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• Sometimes, the word 'voluntary' is a little complicated.

  Cass Sunstein

  Littles, Sometimes

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• If you find it complicated to answer someone’s question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer

  Ibn Arabi

  Doe, Answers, Rooms

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• But charity is a very complicated thing. Its important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.

  Roman Abramovich

  Squares, Important, Charity

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• I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense,the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for-a return to the easygoing guy i was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind.

  Bill Withers

  Summer, Nice, Blow

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• The trouble with Adric was that from the beginning he was so damn complicated.

  Matthew Waterhouse

  Trouble, Damn

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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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• Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.

  Greg Cox

  Long, People, Work Out

  Greg Cox, Electric Entertainment (2013). “The Bestseller Job”, p.71, Penguin

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• Somethings get easier. You get more confident in your abilities and you learn what kind of stories sell and what don't. But your standards kept going up with your skills, the business aspect of writing grows more complicated, and it becomes really hard to maintain any semblance of a balanced life the longer you're at this. No matter what level you're at, writing is always difficult.

  Lori Wilde

  Writing, Skills, Stories

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• Managing perfect body weight is not a complicated rocket science. Our body is made up of food which we eat during our day to day life. If we are overweight or obese at the moment then one thing is certain that the food which we eat is unhealthy.

  Subodh Gupta

  Body Weight, Perfect, Rockets

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• I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I’ve glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I’ve sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.

  Susan Jane Gilman

  Ignorance, Complicated World, Velocity

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• Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

  Martin Parr

  Inspiring, Photography, World

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• In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.

  Bertrand Russell

  Years, Water, Elements

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.19, Psychology Press

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• I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.

  Noam Chomsky

  Respect, Work, Mean

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “On Anarchism”, p.109, New Press, The

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• Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store:
  You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Add, Needs, Sticks

  Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi (2006). “All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.

  Philip Pullman

  Sex, Book, Kids

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