Simple Quotes - Page 20

• Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they're just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up.

  Suzanne Vega

  Powerful, Kindness, Circumstances

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• You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.

  Carol Anshaw

  Mean, Thinking, Cities

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• Technologically I live in the 17th century. I have a very simple cell phone. I say I live through the kindness of strangers, because if they see something on the Net they type it out and send it to me.

  Iris Apfel

  Kindness, Phones, Cells

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It's very simple... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun.

  David Douglas Duncan

  Fun, Typewriters, Cameras

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• You have to observe a few simple rules in dressing, which are really not rules; it's just being appropriate. If you're 70 and want to wear miniskirts, 70-year-old knees ain't pretty!

  Iris Apfel

  Years, Want, Knees

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• If he's choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn't respect your feelings and needs.

  Greg Behrendt

  Fighting, Effort, Feelings

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it is a simple statement of principle that in a democracy you should make your MPs work harder for your vote and try and get at least majority support in their local area, and that in a nutshell is what AV does.

  Nick Clegg

  Hard Work, Thinking, Mps

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• One of the principles that we operate on in this country is that leaders are held accountable. The simple truth is that we went into Iraq on the basis of some intuition, some fear, and some exaggerated rhetoric and some very, very scanty evidence.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, Iraq, Leader

  "Gen. Wesley Clark: Iraq war based on 'misjudgment'". Interview with Aaron Brown, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2003.

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• A friend of mine had his own theatre company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.

  David Alan Grier

  Reading, Thinking, Play

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• It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.

  William Hague

  Giving, Matter, Interviews

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• It's a very simple process. He [Danny Boyl] comes in the tube (subway) and then he sits with me for 3 hours every evening and then I work on something. Then later, if he likes something, I put it even more perfectly. I tweak stuff. So this happened for 3 or 4 weeks and the music was done.

  A. R. Rahman

  Done, Stuff, Likes

  Source: collider.com

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• Ice is remarkable in many ways. A simple experiment one can do at home is to add salt to an amount of water in different concentrations. For example, one can mimic the concentration of the ocean, or one can make it even saltier.

  Ira Flatow

  Ocean, Home, Ice

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and people are as tightly controlled within the walls of a corporation as they are in a totalitarian society.

  Richard Grossman

  Wall, People, Democracy

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that. It is 'that's what you do, that's what you are', and that's a little unfair, to me, because I don't just do that. So I like singer/songwriter because it allows me to move a little bit more freely.

  Frank Ocean

  Moving, Artist, Littles

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I saw the Ramones, early on at a country-rock palace in Denver. They were opening for some record-company band, so the local music establishment, and I emphasize the word "establishment," was there in force, and the handful of us who knew the Ramones were up in front. And half the fun was, you know, not only were the Ramones the most powerful band I had ever seen at that point, but they made it look so simple - that anyone could do it, hell, even I could do it. This is what I should be doing.

  Jello Biafra

  Country, Fun, Powerful

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• I became tired of submitting my art to a panel of corporate strategists who decide if it meets their standard of what gets into stores or not. It was quite simple for me: they act like judge and jury of my art, and that is unacceptable. I wanted to give it right to the public.

  Chuck D

  Art, Tired, Giving

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• I think boxers are the greatest athletes in all sports for the simple fact that they don't cry. That is mind-blowing. Have you ever been punched in the nose? Oh my gosh, it hurts so bad. They have to go back to corner, where some little man yells at them. 'Shut up, I just got punched in the face!'... If I was a boxer, do you know who I would hire as my corner man? My mom.

  Daniel Tosh

  Mom, Sports, Hurt

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• The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.

  Frank Yerby

  Men, Years, Paper

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• I never felt in competition with anybody in war photography. You're lucky to get your ass in and out again. It's as simple as that. It's the easiest photography in the world to shoot somebody who's been shot up. It doesn't take a genius. That's easy. The only thing you need to know is your photography. Get in and if you're lucky get out. And get as close as you can get.

  David Douglas Duncan

  Photography, War, Competition

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• I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Medicine, Subsidies, Incentives

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• Let's start anew. Life is goals - Purpose-Attempts - Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it's actually simple.

  Eugene Mirman

  Dream, Struggle, Goal

  Eugene Mirman (2009). “The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination. It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness.

  Irving Penn

  Lying, Fall, Light

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• Take away the robots and the special effects, and Star Wars is just the simple story of a group of friends planning a terrorist attack.

  Dana Gould

  Stars, War, Special

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jul 29, 2013

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• It's a simple and an effective way of getting everyone on the same page, prepared and paying attention to the gag. People just get into that frame of mind of you doing impressions. It can take a minute or two for an audience to catch on when you aren't doing one.

  Frank Caliendo

  Two, People, Mind

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• Do what makes you happy! It's that simple.

  Gia Allemand

  Make You Happy

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