Complicated Quotes - Page 33

• People are complicated. People have secrets. It doesnt make them good people or bad people.

  David Zayas

  People, Secret, Good People

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• We're Vatican assassins. How complicated can it be?

  Charlie Sheen

  Assassins, Warlocks

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• To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.

  Ian McDiarmid

  Character, Years, Play

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• Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

  Lena Olin

  Character, Interesting, Trying

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• Human beings are complicated and flawed and unique, but we all have a story to tell. Gone are the days where our lead characters can only look like somebody else. Heroes look like all of us. We see ourselves in each others' stories. We see who we are. We see who we want to be. Sometimes we see who we don't want to be. And through that we have a greater understanding of ourselves and acceptance of each other.

  Kerry Washington

  Hero, Character, Acceptance

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• I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.

  Aaron Stanford

  Book, Men, Ideas

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• As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

  Erin Merryn

  Abuse, Done, Stranger

  Erin Merryn (2009). “Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness”, p.22, Health Communications, Inc.

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• On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.

  Noam Chomsky

  Talking, Issues, Abortion

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• The ones that make it complicated never get congratulated

  Kid Cudi

  Song: Man on the Moon

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• Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the body’s circadian rhythm, its inner clock. In normal people, ambient conditions, especially the sun, dictate their humors and determine when they are tuckered out for the day. They’re on a twenty-four-hour cycle. Bipolar people run on cycles independent of the sun. And run and run.

  Sam Kean

  Running, Independent, People

  Sam Kean (2011). “The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table”, p.252, Random House

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• If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

  Eleanor Clift

  Cutting, Thinking, Finding The One

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• The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

  Joan Sutherland

  Touching, World, Born

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• It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Simple, Player, Trying

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . .

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Art, Drawing, Estimating

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• Life is sometimes very complicated, but we can purposely learn to enjoy the simple yet powerful and beautiful things God has created!

  Joyce Meyer

  Beautiful, God, Christian

  Joyce Meyer (2009). “The Everyday Life Bible: The Power of God's Word for Everyday Living”, p.1269, Hachette UK

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• [The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is on a mission to lose her virginity. That's a mission easily accomplished, if that's the only mission. The story had to be more complicated than that. Because there is so little happening dramatically, there had to be something to keep you curious.

  Susan Minot

  Girl, Ideas, Directors

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• Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.

  John Dewey

  Past, History, Imagination

  John Dewey (1970). “Characters and events: popular essays in social and political philosophy”

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• It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.

  Viola Davis

  People, Colour

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• There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my parents. But now I couldn't be more grateful that I have a different look.

  Meaghan Rath

  Grateful, People, Parent

  "Meaghan Rath Is Not Your Typical Ghost on 'Being Human'". Interview with Frank Nestor, www.backstage.com. February 3, 2012.

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• It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

  Boris Pasternak

  Lyric Poetry, Immensity, Prose

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1976). “My sister, life and other poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Opportunity, Men, Law

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

  Heidi Klum

  Book, Clothes, Glue

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• The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when the building is finished, the completed structure leads by simple arguments to an unexpected conclusion. Every Besicovitch proof is a work of art, as carefully constructed as a Bach fugue.

  Freeman Dyson

  Beauty, Art, Simple

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• In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.

  Andre Weil

  Past, Discovery, Ideas

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• Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free and autonomous as well. Tragically, this never quite works out. At best, we can only be free one or two at a time-while the other dudes hold onto the wire. Which is not to say that no one has tried to dispense with wires. Many have, and sometimes it works-but it doesn't feel like jazz when it does. The music simply drifts away into the stratosphere of formal dialectic, beyond our social concerns.

  Dave Hickey

  Song, Nice, Two

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