Simple Quotes - Page 23

• Life isn't that simple. Everybody has a dual potential to do good and bad and you're capable of doing both. But as to whether someone is beyond redemption, they're dangerous.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Redemption, Good And Bad, Dangerous

  "Inside Man". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2010.

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• I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Trying, Politician, Scientist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I actually don't like hip hop much; the music is too clichéd, the subculture, especially the macho strutting of gangsta rappers, isn't my thing. But, at the same time, rap is a simple, direct and strong musical language.

  Shahin Najafi

  Strong, Rap, Gangsta

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Eye, Sight, Brain

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• I like well-made clothes, and I don't mind spending a lot of money on something that looks super, super simple. I don't like knockoffs.

  Micah Lexier

  Clothes, Mind, Looks

  "A Believer Excerpt From Sheila Heti’s Interview With Artist Micah Lexier". Interview with Sheila Heti, www.mcsweeneys.net. October 11, 2013.

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• Stores are the same everywhere; small downtowns are done. Not just in America, but globally. You hear the same music on every station, all our building materials look the same, and all our clothes look the same. But I thought that it couldn't be that simple, because Arizona is not Minnesota. There is this other reality, which is a reality of landscape.

  Cynthia Daignault

  Reality, Clothes, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think I've ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I stopped and I lost a lot of weight because my appetite was less. I'm not skinny now - I'm spindly. I eat an extremely simple diet - mostly salmon, avocado, feta cheese, chicken, eggs, peanut butter, blueberries, and quinoa.

  Nick Antosca

  Thinking, Years, Eggs

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

  Antonio Damasio

  Brain, Add, Stories

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• Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.

  V. E. Schwab

  People, Alive, Stealing

  V. E. Schwab (2017). “The Shades of Magic Series: (A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, A Conjuring of Light)”, p.209, Tor Books

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• Getting a traditional pharmaceutical to the market can cost a billion dollars or more. Newer, more tailored and targeted drugs called biologics are even more complex and expensive. Simple economics dictates that companies and venture funds will invest more in products that can generate a sufficient return.

  David Mixner

  Drug, Dollars, Cost

  "Why We Can’t Forget about HIV/AIDS in Health-Care Reform" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2009.

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• Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Profound, Joy, Connectedness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.59, Penguin

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• As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Believe, Government

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• When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it, you have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!

  Vernon Howard

  Worry, World, Might

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• If we can allow some space within our awareness and rest there, we can respect our troubling thoughts and emotions, allow them to come, and let them go. Our lives may be complicated on the outside, but we remain simple, easy, and open on the inside.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Space, May, Emotion

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• Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.

  Bear Grylls

  Empowering, Answers, Alphas

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• If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Life Is Short, Thinking, Phones

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• Dalai Lama once said that 'My religion is simple. My religion is kindness.' This is a great thought! Humanity has never seen and will never see any religion better than this! Seek no religion other than the religion of kindness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kindness, Humanity, Said

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• Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Zoos, Animal, Hands

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• There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dwelling, Principles, Speech

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.399

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• With F1, it's really a combination of many things. You have to have good endurance, good strength in certain muscles, you need to be fast, have good reactions and good decisions. It's not as simple as one thing. You need to be a complete athlete.

  Valtteri Bottas

  Athlete, Decision, Endurance

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• Sometimes something as simple as going for a 20-minute jog on any given day is important. Keeps your body moving and legs from getting stiffened up from doing high-intensity workouts during the week.

  Jozy Altidore

  Workout, Moving, Important

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• Simple is the speech of truth.

  Aeschylus

  Speech

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• Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Fashion, Art, Mean

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• Being simple and complicated at the same is what makes Jay-Z so great.

  Rapsody

  Complicated

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• The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don't. It's just that simple.

  Charlie Munger

  Wise, Opportunity, Odds

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