I don't believe you can make an honest film about another person in all their complexities from a place of distance. You… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Stereotypes are the mind's shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped… — Robert E Lane Copy Share Image
It is simply not for us to judge each other. The Lord has reserved that right for Himself, because only He knows… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
“...that language may be a compound code, and that the discovery of an enormous complexity beneath a simple surface may well be… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist.… — Alison Jolly Copy Share Image
What differentiates human from lower-animal consciousness is time. You can't explain the concept of "tomorrow" to your dog. Our consciousness is dominated… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
We only have to look around us to see how complexity ... and psychic "temperature" are still rising: and rising no longer… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity,… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I tend to be much more in the present and my emotions are simpler. I can be happy, I can be sad,… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this complexity possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
I think it's very, very important that in foreign policy and national security decision making, as in any other realm, that there… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, gay characters, or characters that deal with sexuality issues, who are black, in 'black films'... are typically not dealt… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such… — John Updike Copy Share Image
If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
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