Complex Quotes

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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent. — Ingrid Newkirk
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation. — Sandra Day O'Connor
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply. — Joyce Carol Oates
The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable. — Barack Obama
Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image. — David Ogilvy
The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up. — Yoko Ono
Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that.… — Donny Osmond
We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives. — Camille Paglia
Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence. — Henry Paulson
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. — Laurence J. Peter
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. — Steven Pinker
The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind. — Steven Pinker
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing… — Sylvia Plath
The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I… — Terry Pratchett
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound. — Dennis Prager
We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of… — Vladimir Putin
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical… — Paul Rand
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. — Ronald Reagan
In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. — Gary Ross
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. — Jerry Saltz

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