Simple Quotes - Page 18

• I think there's something in common with the OSS 117 movies. The big difference is there's no irony in this one. It's not parody. I tried to make it very simple. It's a simple story, but to be simple, it's very complex in the way it's done.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Thinking, Differences, Way

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• [Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and it's a simple fact of that universe that talent then migrates away from these forms, and then the amateurs get in, like lunatics in the ruins, sort of pretending to be artists. If you're ambitious enough to want to be a writer to begin with, you want to be a writer in some circumstances where there are rewards, where there's notice, where you don't have to be a teacher, and where you're frankly not nuts for wasting your time.

  William Monahan

  Teacher, Artist, Nuts

  Source: collider.com

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• We basically have only two real tried and true techniques that can help counter this. One of them is to make systems as simple as we can, and there are limits to that because we can only simplify things so much. The other is the use of encryption.

  Matt Blaze

  Real, Two, Technique

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two phones but that can be decrypted by the government under certain conditions and, by making the problem that complicated, that made it very easy for subtle flaws to slip by unnoticed. I think it demonstrated that this problem is not just a tough public policy problem, but it's also a tough technical problem.

  Matt Blaze

  Thinking, Phones, Government

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Way, Christianity, Presenting

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• I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.

  Albert Einstein

  Book, Mind, Information

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• Every great change is simple.

  Ezra Pound

  Great Change

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• I'm always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems.

  Martha Stewart

  Everyday Problems, Solutions, Simple Solutions

  "Discovering Everyday Good Things". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.

  C. S. Lewis

  Extinction, Achieve, Ends

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.

  William Barclay

  Giving, World, Facts

  William Barclay (1964). “The Gospel of John”

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• The way forward is simple - just follow Christ!

  Helen Keller

  Way Forward, Way, Christ

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• I often suggest that my students ask themselves the simple question: Do I know how to live? Do I know how to eat? How much to sleep? How to take care of my body? How to relate to other people? ... Life is the real teacher, and the curriculum is all set up. The question is: are there any students?

  Larry Rosenberg

  Teacher, Real, Sleep

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• Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West, a rare combination of mystic, poet, scholar, and activist. His luminous presence and the simple, compassionate clarity of his writings have touched countless lives.

  Joanna Macy

  Teacher, Buddhist, Writing

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• There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Ignorance, Dark, Light

  Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.252, Ballantine Books

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• The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations.

  Nicholas Lore

  Perseverance, Jobs, Commitment

  "The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success". Book by Nicholas Lore, 1998.

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• I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Musical, Hook

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• Either [Jesus] was what he said he was or he was the world's greatest liar. It is impossible for me to believe a liar or charlatan could have had the effect on mankind that he has had for 2000 years. We could ask, would even the greatest of liars carry his lie through the crucifixion, when a simple confession would have saved him? ... Did he allow us the choice... to believe in his teaching but reject his statements about his own identity?

  Ronald Reagan

  Jesus, Liars, Lying

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• Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they're just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up.

  Suzanne Vega

  Powerful, Kindness, Circumstances

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• A bike ride. Yes, that's it! A simple bike ride. It's what I love to do and most days I can't believe they pay me to do it. A day is not the same without it.

  Lance Armstrong

  Believe, Pay, Bike

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• You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.

  Carol Anshaw

  Mean, Thinking, Cities

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• I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated. Now I'm trying to let what's in there come out and acknowledge where I come from. I'm trying to make it more. ..true.

  Bill Frisell

  Trying, Complicated, Used

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• You are rich if you have enough money to satisfy all your desires. So there are two ways to be rich: you earn, inherit, borrow, beg, or steal enough money to meet all your desires; or you cultivate a simple lifestyle of few desires; that way you always have enough money.

  Dan Millman

  Two, Desire, Way

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Wen is one of my favorite products because it's one tub full of shampoo and conditioner, all in one. I really love that because it's so simple. Then I throw in some mousse and walk outside and let it air dry. That makes it really beachy and cool. I'm very low maintenance and that's what keeps your hair healthy - when you don't fuss with it as much.

  Nina Dobrev

  Hair, Healthy, Maintenance

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• Savasana is the easiest and most important yoga move because it's so simple. Lying there is meditative.

  Nina Dobrev

  Lying, Moving, Yoga

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• Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.

  Mick Jagger

  Explanation, Happens

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