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• There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

  Tori Amos

  Looks, World, Jazz

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• The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Fighting, Racism

  Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1997.

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• I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Girl, Thinking, Interesting

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• A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Air, Rose

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• The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Numbers, Balance

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• The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.

  Joe Biden

  Issues, Giving, Three

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• There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

  Chaz Bono

  Birth Defects, People, Brain

  "The Reluctant Transgender Role Model". Interview with Cintra Wilson, www.nytimes.com. May 6, 2011.

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• I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Team, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.

  Jo Brand

  Believe, Alzheimer's, Brain

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• Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

  Jeff Bridges

  Children, Issues, Poverty

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• I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

  Steve Buscemi

  Character, Interesting, Elements

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• I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

  Barbara Bush

  Country, Mean, Afghanistan

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• Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

  Pablo Casals

  Courage, Peace, Kindness

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

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• Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting.

  Phil Collins

  Nice, Kids, Tired

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• There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated, but if the population doesn't save, the economy will not tend to export as much, and if it doesn't export as much, it won't manufacture enough.

  Evan Davis

  Strong, Degrees, Population

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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• My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.

  Beth Ditto

  Character, Bags, Tools

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• People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

  Michael Fassbender

  Opportunity, People, Strange

  Interview with Josh Brolin, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2012.

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• As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.

  Neil Gaiman

  Teenager, Simple, Stories

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• My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

  Melissa Gilbert

  Mother, Children, Divorce

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• Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

  Kirk Hammett

  Metallica, Fragile Things, Delicate

  "James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica Discuss Their 1997 Album, 'Re-Load'". The Guitar World Interview, www.guitarworld.com. December, 1997.

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• Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

  Tom Hanks

  Optimistic, Optimism, Tolerance

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• I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Way

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• You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that.

  Emmylou Harris

  Grieving, Color, People

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• Blomkvist had indeed had many brief relationships. He knew he was reasonably good-looking, but he had never considered himself exceptionally attractive. But he had often been told that he had something that made women interested in him . . .that he radiated self-confidence and security at the same time, that he had the ability to make women feel at ease. Going to bed with him was not threatening or complicated, but it might be erotically enjoyable. And that, according to Blomkvist, was as it should be.

  Steig Larsson

  Self Confidence, Bed, Ease

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• It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.

  Arundhati Roy

  Running, Complicated Relationship, Boring

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