Complicated Quotes - Page 28

• When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.

  David Baltimore

  Blood, Talking, Cells

  "Science Policy for the 21st Century". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com.

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• What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.

  James Belushi

  Media, Stories, Avalanches

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• When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Cake, Special, United States

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• Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

  Saskia de Brauw

  Guy, Nothing New, It Is What It Is

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• I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.

  Aidan Chambers

  Thinking, People, Important

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• As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.

  Charles Cumming

  Term, Concessions

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• It's not like I don't want to play the guy next door. But sometimes they're not the best written or the most complicated. But I am very, very particular about my bad boys. There are certain types of characters I will not play. I've said no so many times to so many parts that are just way too dark. You have to be careful.

  Kim Coates

  Character, Dark, Boys

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• Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning.

  Maria Cantwell

  Wall, Roulette, Want

  "Wall Street Has a Gambling Problem" by Sen. Maria Cantwell, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

  Nick Carter

  Funeral, My Family, My Sister

  "Nick Carter Blames Family's "Complicated Dynamic" for Missing Sister Leslie Carter's Funeral" by Gina Serpe, www.eonline.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.

  Peter Dinklage

  Fun, Character, Play

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

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• When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself.

  Alex Garland

  Sunshine, Proud, Able

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

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• I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.

  Dick Gephardt

  Running, Fighting, Government

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• People are complicated; you put two of them together and it's generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess.

  Johnny Galecki

  Beautiful, Two, People

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• It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

  Jessica Alba

  Character, Interesting, Want

  "The Changeling". Interview with Maggie Bullock, www.elle.com. February 04, 2009.

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• The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.

  Sherman Alexie

  Kids, Simple, Emotional

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• Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

  David Eagleman

  Cells, Cities, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.6, Canongate Books

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• C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

  Tom Christiansen

  Screw Ups, Excess, Computer

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• Somehow it all got too out of hand, too complicated for a simple man. Don't want to have to pick and choose, hey, look at all these things I'll never use.

  Darryl Worley

  Simple, Reality, Men

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• Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

  Rob Pike

  Simple, Modern, Easy

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• An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.

  Ray Dalio

  Moving, Economy, Moving Parts

  "CFR's CEO Speaker Series", www.cfr.org. September 12, 2012.

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• There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

  Edie Falco

  Littles, Good And Bad

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• It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

  Edie Falco

  Cutting, Issues, Fame

  Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. April 6, 2012.

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• The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

  Manny Farber

  Sleep, Curiosity, Detectives

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.564, Library of America

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• It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.

  Laura San Giacomo

  Fun, Intense, Get Real

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

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• It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Fall, Thinking, Rivers

  "Los Bros Hernandez". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2005.

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