Complicated Quotes - Page 26

• The secrets I receive reflect the full spectrum of complicated issues that many of us struggle with every day: Intimacy, trust, meaning, humor, and desire.

  Frank Warren

  Struggle, Issues, Secret

  "Frank Warren: Secret keeper". TED Speaker profile, www.ted.com. April 2012.

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• I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Team, Government, Cities

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• Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary.

  Gregory Skovoroda

  Simple, Giving, Thanks

  "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, translated by P. Sekirin, 1997.

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• People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most underhanded forms of betrayal. It's a constant battle that rages within all of us, between the better angels of our nature and the temptations of our inner demons. And sometimes, the only way to ward off the darkness is to shine the light of compassion.

  Mary Alice

  Betrayal, Angel, Compassion

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• Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Civilization, Progress, Clarity

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• The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

  Misha Glenny

  Age, Desire, Pits

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• Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Opposites, Facts, Possession

  Blake Mycoskie (2012). “Start Something That Matters”, p.113, Random House

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• Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.

  Monica Dickens

  Joy, Riding, Never Quit

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• Nothing makes a person weaker than complicated thinking.

  Lee Jin-wook

  Thinking, Persons

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• How could anything so sublimely complicated not be the simple answer?

  John Diamond

  Simple, Answers

  John Diamond (2001). “Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations”, Random House

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• Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Sibling, Looks, Family Relationship

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• If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

  Steve Sabol

  Football, Falling In Love, Thinking

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

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• Is that what I wanted? To be in the middle of something complicated and dramatic? To be a cheerleader for someone else’s romance? Or to have a romance of my own?

  Kate Klise

  Romance, Cheerleader, Dramatic

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• Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.

  Adrian Tan

  Long, Trying, Life Is

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• There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  World, Way, Villain

  "Welcome to the N.H.K". Book by Tatsuhiko Takimoto, 2002.

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• History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story that could never be repeated.

  Edward Bloor

  Lonely, Unique, Earth

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• Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

  James W. Loewen

  Ideas, United States, Doe

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.83, The New Press

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• Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.

  Sivananda

  Hate, Simple, World

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• I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Believe, Simple, People

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• I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

  Bill Frisell

  Hate, People, Labels

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• Maybe young women don't wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of course you can have it all. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications. It will not be anything like what you think it will be like, but surprises are good for you. And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

  Nora Ephron

  Husband, Women, Thinking

  "Nora Ephron’s Famous TNora Ephron’s Famous Talk At Wellesley’s Graduation". www.mindingthecampus.org. 1996.

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• We always know, we always know, which is the right way to go, and which is the wrong way to go. Sometimes, the wrong way is easier to go, or more satisfying, and so we choose that way instead of the right one and we justify it with complicated wordplay and such; but we are only kidding ourselves.

  Milton William Cooper

  Way, Sometimes, Easier

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• Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.

  A. Lee Martinez

  Life Is, Life Is Complicated, Difficult

  A. Lee Martinez (2007). “A Nameless Witch”, p.239, Macmillan

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• Finding your look isn't complicated if you go in without being frightened. Notice what people are complimenting you on. Experiment with new things once in a while, but have your tried-and-true pieces that work.

  Lauren Hutton

  People, Looks, Pieces

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• The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Opportunity, Expression

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