Complex Quotes
1613 quotes by 1299 authors
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I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now - that Napoleon…
— Wesley Snipes
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Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant…
— David Remnick
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Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be…
— Andrew Lo
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I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like a PowerPoint lecture…
— Elizabeth Price
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Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and interesting creatures with…
— Alexander McCall Smith
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Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on…
— David Mitchell
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You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
— Richard Holbrooke
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Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or false, but films…
— Errol Morris
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The Icesave matter is complex and it is understandable that the issue has been oversimplified by many. Unfortunately some of the basic facts of the…
— Johanna Siguroardottir
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My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.
— Donald Tusk
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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…
— David Mixner
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I love mysteries on television - the more psychologically complex, the better.
— Rebecca Eaton
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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.
— Daniel Tammet
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The lack of free, child-directed play time for our kids today will have dire consequences for these future leaders, making them less prepared to solve…
— Darell Hammond
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I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that…
— James Cromwell
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In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time…
— John Burdett
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The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
— Bill Viola
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The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable…
— Tariq Ramadan
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The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character,…
— Zadie Smith
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