Complex Quotes
1613 quotes by 1299 authors
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Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them…
— Jerry Saltz
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Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption.…
— Marjane Satrapi
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Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done…
— Adam Savage
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in…
— E F Schumacher
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Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos…
— Nate Silver
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Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational,…
— Peter Singer
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
— Iain Duncan Smith
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I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.
— Julia Stiles
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I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
— Barbra Streisand
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Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to…
— James Surowiecki
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By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall…
— Matt Taibbi
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I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided…
— Daniel Tammet
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Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we…
— Daniel Tammet
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We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.
— Gabrielle Union
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I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always…
— Mark Viduka
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My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world…
— Lech Walesa
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As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if…
— Hugo Weaving
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Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed,…
— Andrew Weil
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The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can…
— Andrew Weil
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Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in…
— Cornel West
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