Simplistic Quotes
86 quotes by 81 authors
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and…
— Bjork
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There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of…
— Jo Brand
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I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil. I believe this is a big world full of men, women,…
— Sean Penn
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Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.
— Clement Mok
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Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it.
— Oscar Arias
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These are the people we elected and if we are not satisfied we should get new candidates. It is in our hands. It is our…
— Robert Stanfield
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It is never easy to define what is moral, particularly in foreign policy. But at the risk of being simplistic, it appears to me that…
— Arthur Goldberg
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Don't get simple mixed up with simplistic.
— Gordon Willis
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If you take a sophisticated idea, reduce it to the simplest possible terms so that it’s accessible to everybody, and don’t get simple mixed up…
— Gordon Willis
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If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and…
— Armond White
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Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic and full of…
— Laurie Penny
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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art.…
— Edith Wharton
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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality…
— Stanley Kubrick
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F8 And Be There! For years, this was the cry of the photojournalist. It meant that 90% of a great photo was being in the…
— Dewitt Jones
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People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film. . . . I think that’s really…
— Todd Haynes
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Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship…
— Dmitri Volkogonov
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The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.
— Daniel D. Polsby
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One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce…
— Jesse Ball
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I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation…
— Edward Bond
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