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• Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little.

  Richard Simmons

  Thinking, Parent, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.

  Dani Shapiro

  Mother, Religious, Father

  "Devotion: An interview with Dani Shapiro". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. April 4, 2010.

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• I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

  Jane Siberry

  Together, Pops, Blur

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• To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control.

  Michelle Huneven

  Love Is, Issues, Finding Love

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• It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea.

  Carver Mead

  Simple, Ideas, Easy

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• Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Simple, Sweaters, Clothes

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• Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Children, Autism, Improvement

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. August 16, 2005.

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• The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Beautiful, Believe, Chinese

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

  John Dos Passos

  Apathy, Intense, Characteristics

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• Comfort, simplicity, practicality - these are all American words. It is simplicity in fabric and way of cut. You cannot produce complicated clothes or spend ten days making a dress. Mine is all done by scaling measurements. I use the body as the land, as when building a house.

  Zoran

  Cutting, Land, Clothes

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• Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Simple, May

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• After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Logic, Should

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1991). “Cancer Ward: A Novel”, p.96, Macmillan

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• Man has risen so far above all other species that he competes in ways unique in nature. He fights by means of complicated weapons; he fights for ends remote in time.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Mean, Fighting, Unique

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they're very young.

  Diablo Cody

  Children, Writing, Two

  "Diablo Cody on the Challenge of Directing While Raising a Toddler, and Women in Film". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 30, 2013.

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• Running is a very natural activity. If you get too caught up, you find yourself constantly seeking to make running something that it isn't. You should let it be what it is - a very simple activity. Running has become too complicated for many people and they wind up turning sour on the sport, or losing the focus of their direction.

  Bill Rodgers

  Sports, Running, Simple

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• I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

  Edward Abbey

  Real, Blood, Sweat

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.39, Big Earth Publishing

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• For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.

  Craig Claiborne

  Drinking, Wine, Men

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• I like metal because it's complicated, technical, brutal and I like the challenge.

  Jake Pitts

  Challenges, Brutal, Metals

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• As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  Men, Ideas, Profound

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• Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

  Herman Wouk

  War, Toys, Strange

  Herman Wouk (1986). “Winds of War”, Pocket

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• The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

  Robert Benchley

  Technology, Pieces, Machinery

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• I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.

  Anne Stevenson

  Real, Mean, Simple

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• Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

  Robert Bolt

  Book, Gestures, Morality

  "A Man For All Seasons". Play by Robert Bolt, 1960.

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• Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.

  John Lahr

  Discovery, Games, Play

  "The Human Circus" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. March 1, 2010.

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• It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.

  Louis Simpson

  Conscience

  Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.191, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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