Simple Quotes - Page 6

• I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Trying, Politician, Scientist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I actually don't like hip hop much; the music is too clichéd, the subculture, especially the macho strutting of gangsta rappers, isn't my thing. But, at the same time, rap is a simple, direct and strong musical language.

  Shahin Najafi

  Strong, Rap, Gangsta

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Eye, Sight, Brain

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• I like well-made clothes, and I don't mind spending a lot of money on something that looks super, super simple. I don't like knockoffs.

  Micah Lexier

  Clothes, Mind, Looks

  "A Believer Excerpt From Sheila Heti’s Interview With Artist Micah Lexier". Interview with Sheila Heti, www.mcsweeneys.net. October 11, 2013.

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• Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a green light, a further green light, after Citizens United, to the biggest money to have the bigger voice in our politics, and to sound out and drown out the voice of just ordinary citizens.

  Mark Shields

  Light, Voice, Sound

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Writing, Profound, Noses

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 2011.

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• Stores are the same everywhere; small downtowns are done. Not just in America, but globally. You hear the same music on every station, all our building materials look the same, and all our clothes look the same. But I thought that it couldn't be that simple, because Arizona is not Minnesota. There is this other reality, which is a reality of landscape.

  Cynthia Daignault

  Reality, Clothes, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think I've ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I stopped and I lost a lot of weight because my appetite was less. I'm not skinny now - I'm spindly. I eat an extremely simple diet - mostly salmon, avocado, feta cheese, chicken, eggs, peanut butter, blueberries, and quinoa.

  Nick Antosca

  Thinking, Years, Eggs

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have new things if you don't occasionally destroy the old. That's something you're really not allowed to say because things are often destroyed according to particular power relations so it means taking a stand in those cases, which I am not really interested in doing either. I think I am simply interested in looking.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Mean, Thinking, Sorrow

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

  Antonio Damasio

  Brain, Add, Stories

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• Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.

  V. E. Schwab

  People, Alive, Stealing

  V. E. Schwab (2017). “The Shades of Magic Series: (A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, A Conjuring of Light)”, p.209, Tor Books

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• Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Marketing, Never Forget, Truism

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• In The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, Carmine Gallo captures the true mindset of Jobs and Apple. This book is not just for the techie and marketing crowd, although they will gain valuable insight that can be applied to their worlds. It is also for anyone who loves technology and wants to understand how to create simple devices that are easy to use and can impact our lives.

  Tim Bajarin

  Jobs, Book, Technology

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• When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

  David Nevins

  Ambition, Swinging For The Fences, Risk

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• I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points.

  David Nevins

  Ambition, Thinking, Games

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• Getting a traditional pharmaceutical to the market can cost a billion dollars or more. Newer, more tailored and targeted drugs called biologics are even more complex and expensive. Simple economics dictates that companies and venture funds will invest more in products that can generate a sufficient return.

  David Mixner

  Drug, Dollars, Cost

  "Why We Can’t Forget about HIV/AIDS in Health-Care Reform" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2009.

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• Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Profound, Joy, Connectedness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.59, Penguin

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• The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Inspiration, Everyday, Doorways

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• As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Believe, Government

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• When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it, you have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!

  Vernon Howard

  Worry, World, Might

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• At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
  If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do.
  It is all very simple.

  Adyashanti

  Littles, Moments, Manifest

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• To keep it simple, why did God choose me? Because He felt like it!

  Shai Linne

  Choose Me, Felt, Keep It Simple

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• If we can allow some space within our awareness and rest there, we can respect our troubling thoughts and emotions, allow them to come, and let them go. Our lives may be complicated on the outside, but we remain simple, easy, and open on the inside.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Space, May, Emotion

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• Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.

  Bear Grylls

  Empowering, Answers, Alphas

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• No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you're staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It's very simple when you look at it.

  Kevin Hart

  Winning, People, Looks

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