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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

  Ryan Gosling

  Thinking, Kind, Capable

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  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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• Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Simple, Intellect

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

  Manuel Puig

  Movie, Needs, Stories

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• Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

  Paul Rand

  Death, Art, Simple

  "Learning PHP Design Patterns". Book by William Sanders (p. 105), 2013.

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• Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

  Adrienne Rich

  Fake People, Memories, Real

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

  Alain de Botton

  Philosophy, Book, Sound

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• I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

  James Brown

  Play, African American, Joining

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• I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

  David Duchovny

  Dog, Live In The Moment, Care

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• Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

  Bob Woodward

  Character, Scandal, Novel

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Acting, Vessel

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• We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

  Freeman Thomas

  Technology, Our Lives

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• If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you’re drawing it.

  Sergio Aragones

  Thinking, Drawing, Way

  "Ask Sergio". sergioaragones.com.

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• Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.

  Robert Maxwell

  Two, People, Four

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  Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Letting Go, Fear

  Bill Russell, Taylor Branch (1980). “Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man”

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• The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

  Joyce Maynard

  Parent, Portraits

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• It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

  Arthur Keith

  Civilization, Becoming, Experts

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

  Roger Spottiswoode

  Thinking, Engineering, Ethics And Morals

  "Interview With The 6th Day Director Roger Spottiswoode". Interview with Scott Brake, www.ign.com. November 17, 2000.

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• No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.

  Rick Riordan

  Love, Relationship, Hate

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• Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.

  Bradley Cooper

  Life, People, Reason

  "High Infidelity". Interview with Holly Millea, www.elle.com. December 11, 2008.

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• What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

  Klaus Nomi

  Simple, Innocence, Hard

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• I couldn't understand her [my mother's] wiring, all the time. I couldn't understand how she denied herself pleasure and enjoyment in life. As my career got successful and I wanted to do things for her, she wasn't able to allow them because she just didn't work that way. It was always that. It wasn't necessarily ugly, just complicated.

  Dan Fogelman

  Mother, Successful, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

  Arundhati Roy

  Life, Sad, Romantic

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.24, Penguin Books India

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• Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

  Jean Cocteau

  Fashion, Simple, Style

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