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• The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.

  Theresa May

  Two, Migrants, Principles

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

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• I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something behind. That idea connected us to the local community. It was a very simple idea, but it really resonated with me.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Play, Ideas, Community

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• My own skin-care ritual is quite simple and straightforward; I don't like a lot of fuss, surprisingly. My products are designed to make you look and feel better. I think there are a lot of men out there who want and need the same products.

  Tom Ford

  Feel Better, Men, Thinking

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• Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.

  George E. P. Box

  Signatures, Mediocrity, Scientist

  "Science and Statistics". Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 71, No. 356, (p. 792), December, 1976.

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• For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Imagination, Independence

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• Hope is at once both simple and profound. It is hope that binds Heaven and earth. Hope is the bridge between Heaven and earth.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Bridges, Profound, Heaven

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• Real Understanding manifests itself as spontaneous natural and simple action, free of the depressing process of choice, pure without indecisions of any type.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Depressing, Real, Choices

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• Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes. We must give to receive, realize we are blind to see, become simple to be wise, suffer for gain, and die to live. If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world

  Asahel Nettleton

  Christian, Wise, Mean

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• My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.

  Elvis Presley

  Philosophy, Waiting, Needs

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• If you respect or love animals you could never eat them. It's that simple

  Steven Morrissey

  Animal, Animal Love, Ifs

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• I find that I get a little depressed if I don't move my body each day, so sometimes it's just as simple as walking, and other times it's training for a marathon or some kind of personal goal that I'm trying to meet.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Moving, Goal, Training

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• In those days, I didn't know how guys like Clapton and Beck were getting that searing blues lead sound, so I developed my style to be rhythmic and chord-based, with simple lead lines that you could almost hum.

  John Fogerty

  Guy, Style, Sound

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• There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.

  Stephen Fry

  Heart, Optimism, Tea

  Stephen Fry, Vanda Vucicevic (2008). “Stephen Fry in America”, Harpercollins Pub Ltd

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• The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple - talk about class and hope no one notices.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Class, White, Addresses

  "Color-Blind Policy, Color-Conscious Morality" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theatlantic.com. May 13, 2015.

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• When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.

  Nate Berkus

  Design, Style, Needs

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• In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.

  Nate Berkus

  Space, Looks, Want

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• You can't believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple. They worry that if they're simple, people will think they're simpleminded. In reality, of course, it's just the reverse. Clear, tough-minded people are the most simple.

  Jack Welch

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• People are piling into England, there's lots of studio films happening there. When we budget our films we multiply it by 1.55 it's much easier than when we multiply it by 2 so the cost looks a lot less in dollars, because everybody talks in dollars in terms of finance. And then the shift that I think is coming, I hope is coming, is movies made in a..."simple" is the wrong word, you visit movie sets all the time I imagine, the whole process has just got so big.

  Eric Fellner

  Thinking, People, Dollars

  Source: collider.com

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• My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD, that's it, simple.

  Eric Fellner

  Dvds, Years, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not interested in doing a simple, straightforward action movie, unless they want to pay me lots of money.

  Julian Jarrold

  Want, Pay, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• Why did Ted Geisel end up writing and illustrating for young minds? He has specific imagery in the book, and we never would have moved beyond the discussion phase, if we couldn't have found an expression for The Lorax, dimensionally, that was true to the soul of what comes through in his simple line drawings, on the page.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Book, Writing, Expression

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think there's any clever way for the establishment to take Donald Trump down. It's very simple. Another candidate is going to have to find a way either to out-maneuver him, or to just frankly beat him in the argument.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Clever, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

  John Lennon

  Song, Interesting, Black

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There's a real simple analogy. You have to perceive it from the ground up. You have to lay a firm foundation, then every step becomes part of a logical process.

  Harrison Ford

  Real, Steps, Foundation

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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