Complicated Quotes

• Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Spiritual

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p.52), 1990.

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

  Jean Cocteau

  Fashion, Simple, Style

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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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• I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.

  Eugene Jarvis

  Way

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• Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

  Ralph Marston

  Powerful, Opportunity, Welcome

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• The course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Summer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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• Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

  Barbara Boxer

  Home, Privacy, Life Is

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• The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Jobs, Powerful, Preparation

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• I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

  Brian Eno

  Sound, Rich, Boxes

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  I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

  Alice Paul

  Women, Equality, Rights

  "Deeds Not Words" by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.

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• It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

  John Ruskin

  Sacrifice, Simple, Skills

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• I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

  Poul Anderson

  Motivational, Witty, Truth

  Quoted in New Scientist, 25 Sept. 1969

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• But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Wanted, Coaches

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• The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Earth

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• It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

  Eleanor Clift

  Voting, Opinion

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• I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.

  Channing Tatum

  Fun, People, Wish

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• It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

  Prince Andrew

  Ideas, People, States

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

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• I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

  Bill Joy

  Tired, Editors, People

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• I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

  Irwin Shaw

  Character, Would Be, Literature

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• To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

  Alice Paul

  Equality, Ordinary, Equal Rights

  "Deeds Not Words" by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.

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• Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

  Larry Wall

  Keys, Littles, Shortcuts

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• No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

  Dr. An Wang

  Simple, Idaho, Matter

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• The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Writing, Process, Difficult

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