Complicated Quotes - Page 25

• Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.

  John Dewey

  Past, History, Imagination

  John Dewey (1970). “Characters and events: popular essays in social and political philosophy”

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• It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.

  Viola Davis

  People, Colour

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• There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my parents. But now I couldn't be more grateful that I have a different look.

  Meaghan Rath

  Grateful, People, Parent

  "Meaghan Rath Is Not Your Typical Ghost on 'Being Human'". Interview with Frank Nestor, www.backstage.com. February 3, 2012.

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• It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

  Boris Pasternak

  Lyric Poetry, Immensity, Prose

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1976). “My sister, life and other poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Opportunity, Men, Law

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

  Heidi Klum

  Book, Clothes, Glue

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• The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when the building is finished, the completed structure leads by simple arguments to an unexpected conclusion. Every Besicovitch proof is a work of art, as carefully constructed as a Bach fugue.

  Freeman Dyson

  Beauty, Art, Simple

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• In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.

  Andre Weil

  Past, Discovery, Ideas

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• Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free and autonomous as well. Tragically, this never quite works out. At best, we can only be free one or two at a time-while the other dudes hold onto the wire. Which is not to say that no one has tried to dispense with wires. Many have, and sometimes it works-but it doesn't feel like jazz when it does. The music simply drifts away into the stratosphere of formal dialectic, beyond our social concerns.

  Dave Hickey

  Song, Nice, Two

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• I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying
  ordinance of the most extreme kind

  Milton Friedman

  Self, People, Maintenance

  Interview with Richard Heffner on "The Open Mind", December 7, 1975.

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• We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.

  Hod Lipson

  Simple, Thinking, Theory

  "Download your own robot scientist" by Brandon Keim, www.wired.com. December 3, 2009.

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• What I really learned was that life is a gift and our only purpose is to be who we are. We all make it so complicated, and try to find our purpose, I learned that all I have to do is be as me as I can be.

  Anita Moorjani

  Trying, Purpose, Who We Are

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from Feb 06, 2017

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• Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Home, Trying, Moments

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.

  Andy Weir

  Cutting, Air, Problem

  Andy Weir (2016). “The Martian: Young Readers Edition”, p.190, Random House

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• Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

  Alan Guth

  Average, Space, Realizing

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• Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable.

  Dorie Greenspan

  Real, People, Tricky

  Dorie Greenspan (2014). “Baking Chez Moi: Recipes from My Paris Home to Your Home Anywhere”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

  T. S. Eliot

  World, Patterns, Stranger

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.

  Sebastian Junger

  Ideas, Pakistan, Way

  "Journalist Sebastian Junger". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. June 10, 2011.

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• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Finals, Realization

  "Hawthorne — The Painter; An Appreciation". Essay by Hans Hofmann, 1952.

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• Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Creativity, Simple

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• I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Writing, Dark, People

  "From Pulitzers to Tonys, David Lindsay-Abaire Turns Blue Collar Roots Into Art". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2011.

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• My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.

  Alexandra Kerry

  Passion, Eye, Journey

  Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale

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• I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated.

  Dylan Moran

  Believe, Thinking, Obvious Things

  "Comedian Dylan Moran: 'What am I looking forward to? Incontinence and memory loss'". Interview with Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2009.

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• God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service.  They are the teachers whose names will never be in the newspaper, pastors who will never author a book, managers who will never be profiled in a magazine, artists whose work is buried in layers of collaboration, writers whose sphere of influence is a few dozen people who read their blogs.  But they are the army that makes things happen.  To them devotion is its own reward.  For them influence is a continual act of giving, nothing more complicated than that.

  Mel Lawrenz

  Teacher, Book, Army

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• The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Reality

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