Complicated Quotes - Page 40

• Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

  Haruki Murakami

  Things In Life, Language, Colorless

  "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage". Book by Haruki Murakami, April 12, 2013.

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• I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

  Twyla Tharp

  Thinking, Complicated Relationship

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• Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.

  Tony Stewart

  Race, Car, Shapes

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• Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point:
  Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days.

  Hank Nuwer

  Teacher, Drinking, Acceptance

  Hank Nuwer (2001). “Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking”, p.194, Indiana University Press

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• Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.

  Katherine Dunn

  Beautiful, Mistake, Luck

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• At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence to superhuman powers, to remember the courtesies and obligations of family, to pay homage to certain sacred plants, or to avoid particular places.

  Peter Farb

  Pay, Sacred, Groups

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg

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• A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.

  Peter Farb

  Simple, Society, Way

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State”

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• There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.

  Seth Gordon

  Simple, Media, Talking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not really a Facebook fan because I don't know how to use it! It's so complicated!

  Teyana

  Fans, Use, Know How

  "Buzzworthy Exclusive: Teyana Taylor for President!". Buzzworthy interview, www.mtv.com. February 28, 2008.

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• The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

  Victoria Clark

  Crazy, Character, Actors

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• High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Worship, Speed

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.120, A&C Black

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• Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Buddhism

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• Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise of Buddhism - that you're in a very distorted state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Buddhism, Mind

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• I always feel like the less I think of stage presence, the better, because then I have to face the fact that I have really complicated guitar parts, I'm singing almost all the time, and I have like six pedals I've got to keep on top of

  J. Robbins

  Thinking, Guitar, Singing

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• I personally have more faith than the average writer in people's willingness to be complicated, and so I'm thrilled by what's happened. I'm elated at audiences' willingness to handle complexity. In some sense, I feel like my belief in what people are capable of is being validated.

  Michael Loceff

  Average, People, Belief

  "he Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Attitude, People, Trying

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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• We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated, .. And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that.' .

  Ingmar Bergman

  Seven Months, Long, Amusement

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• In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

  Thomas Eakins

  Simple, Simplicity, Painting

  Thomas Eakins, Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art (1970). “Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York”

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• Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.

  Linus Torvalds

  Confusion, Confusing, Excuse

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• I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.

  Henry Clay

  Believe, New Orleans, Killing

  "Seventh president a mass of contradictions" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2008.

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• Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.

  Arnold Palmer

  Children, Golf, Simple

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• I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.

  Joel Osteen

  Real, People, Stuff

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Enlightenment, Boots

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• The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then we have something lower than hell. We have endless sub-realms that make hell look like Club Med and we have endless nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Christian, Buddhist, Heaven

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• Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, People, Choices

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