Simple Quotes - Page 25

• I really like world music. I used to think it was simple but it's far from that.

  Jake Holmes

  Thinking, World, Used

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• While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business, it has no simple way to uncover how its product encoded data. The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible. Knowledge has been destroyed.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Data, Creative, Way

  "May the Source Be With You" by Lawrence Lessig, www.wired.com. December 1, 2001.

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• My biggest thing is to stay with my approach and take quality ABs to the plate. I'm just trying to keep it simple.

  Jacoby Ellsbury

  Trying, Quality, Plates

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• If protesting against having a nuclear bomb implanted in my brain is anti-Hindu and anti-national, then I secede. I hereby declare myself an independent, mobile republic. I am a citizen of the earth. I own no territory. I have no flag. My policies are simple. I'm willing to sign any nuclear non-proliferation treaty or nuclear test ban treaty that's going. Immigrants are welcome. You can help me design our flag.

  Arundhati Roy

  Independent, Proliferation Treaty, Design

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• Anytime I mess up, even if it's a simple turnover, that affects me.

  Seimone Augustus

  Turnover, Mess, Ifs

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• I grew up in a very simple home, a very simple background, and to be able to do what I'm able to do today, I'm very honored. I don't think I'll ever lose that perspective, and I don't want to.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Home, Thinking, Perspective

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• Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Doe, Finals

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.146, Princeton University Press

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• I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. And I was taught that character...is simply doing what's right when nobody's looking.

  J. C. Watts

  Kings, Children, Character

  J. C. Watts' Republican Response to The President's State of The Union Message, www.cnn.com. February 4, 1997.

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• I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living.

  Edgerrin James

  Real, Want, Way

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• Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light.

  Meister Eckhart

  Light, Spy, Here And There

  Meister Eckhart (1987). “Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises”, Element Books Limited

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• To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, People, Generations

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• Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  People, Want, Majority

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• Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

  Phil Crosby

  Quality, Management, Needed

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• Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.

  Chai Lu

  Simplicity, Study, Painting

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• We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

  Mardy Grothe

  Character, Flaws, Defects

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• The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

  Laozi

  Thinking, Dwelling, People

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• My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and the I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I'm after.

  Donald Trump

  Style, Pushing, Aim

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• My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Fun, Giving, Definitions

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• [Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and it's a simple fact of that universe that talent then migrates away from these forms, and then the amateurs get in, like lunatics in the ruins, sort of pretending to be artists. If you're ambitious enough to want to be a writer to begin with, you want to be a writer in some circumstances where there are rewards, where there's notice, where you don't have to be a teacher, and where you're frankly not nuts for wasting your time.

  William Monahan

  Teacher, Artist, Nuts

  Source: collider.com

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• A living faith is always on trial; we call it faith for that reason. When I read in some alarmist book that the Christian faith is now on trial, or "at the crossroads," my impulse is to answer, Why Not? Does anybody know a time when the Christian faith was not on trial, or when the Christian life was a simple walkover, with neither principalities nor powers to dispute its advance?

  John Edgar Park

  Christian, Book, Doe

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• For all its peculiarities and unevenness, the Bible has a simple story. God made man. Man rejected God. God won't give up until he wins him back. God will whisper. He will shout. He will touch and tug. He will take away our burdens; he'll even take away our blessings. If there are a thousand steps between us and him, he will take all but one. But he will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours. Please understand. His goal is not to make you happy. His goal is to make you His. His goal is not to get you what you want; it is to get you what you need.

  Max Lucado

  Giving Up, Winning, Men

  Max Lucado (2013). “God's Inspirational Promises”, p.166, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels. We know their names. They number a thousand for each one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all. A healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin, and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident, common sense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all...

  Tom Hanks

  Healing, Eye, Angel

  Tom Hanks' Academy Award Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 21, 1994.

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• Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.

  Richard Lloyd

  Teenage, Guitar, Support

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• Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.

  Nikola Tesla

  Song, Land, Play

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly.

  Andy Garcia

  Son, Recipes, Masters

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