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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no need for temples,
no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples;
my philosophy is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Maybe life isn't really as complicated
as we make it out to be.
Perhaps a simple child-like attitude would create
a less stressful and happier life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Movies are a complicated collision of literature,
theatre, music and all the visual arts.
- Yahoo Serious
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated
things starting from simple programs.
- Seth Lloyd
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated.
But if it's like that, then I want out.
- Steven Weinberg
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To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try to understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy
Design is the method of putting form and content together.
Design, just as art, has multiple definitions;
there is no single definition.
Design can be art.
Design can be aesthetics.
Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
- Paul Rand
This is my simple religion.
There is no need for temples;
no need for complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;
the philosophy is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We were promised a simpler life, and technology has
only complicated our lives.
- Freeman Thomas
In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated.
I was the first deputy prime minister,
and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.
- Anatoly Chubais
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language.
It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts,
and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
- Larry Wall
The portrait of my parents is a complicated one,
but lovingly drawn.
- Joyce Maynard
The process is intense and the producers,
who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people
for a fresh look at a complicated project that has
been in the making for 10 years.
- Ednita Nazario
I'm not after a closed system, I mean I'm after a complicated system in structure,
but as far as watching it, I don't think that everything should be decided.
- Mark Morris
I find that everything I do is demanding,
like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot
of explaining in the show,
it takes a lot of energy and concentration.
- Victor Garber
I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able,
as a narrator, to get really complicated.
Because it was a big deal.
I'd never killed a character before.
- Rick Moody
There's no limit to how complicated things can get,
on account of one thing always leading to another.
- E. B. White
Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much
more complicated to get people to open their hearts
to you and to tell you information.
- John Pomfret
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing
process is the beginning.
- A. B. Yehoshua
I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things,
and movies don't reflect that.
- Ryan Gosling
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds
perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in,
and then immediately clouds.
- Terry Prachett
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction.
Most reforms, most problems are complicated.
But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
- Alice Paul
As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming.
I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension -
maybe we wouldn't get out.
Nothing complicated.
- Madeleine Stowe
It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious
about stupid things anymore -
or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.
- Neil Finn
The pole vault is a very complicated event,
there are many things involved.
- Sergei Bubka
There were certain questions about the foundations
of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
- Leon Kass
Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.
- Frederick Lewis Allen
Life is extremely complicated.
- Robert Ludlum
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many
philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
- Alain de Botton
Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task
for magical techniques and miracle cures.
- Ron Taffel
It became much more complicated politically to work
with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics,
particularly among young people.
- Stanislav Grof
Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated
as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.
- Jimmy Greaves
But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.
- Bob Cousy
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated.
You can only write books that are of interest to them.
- Maurice Sendak
I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer,
nor am I very interested in becoming so.
I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than
what I am not sure I could do.
- Giorgio Moroder
We can take this country back.
All we need is to nominate the right candidate.
It's no more complicated than that.
- Rush Limbaugh
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able,
life becomes more complicated.
- Robert Sheckley
I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way.
Why be simple when you can be complicated?
- Kristin Scott Thomas
Really, life is complicated enough without having a
bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the
privacy of our own homes.
- Barbara Boxer
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself.
And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
- Edward Steichen
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth,
but not its twin.
- Barbara Kingsolver
I think the reason people are dealing with science
less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
- James D. Watson
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated,
which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.
- Poul Anderson
You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business.
They don't want anything to be complicated.
They just want it simple, as simple as possible.
- Mark McGrath
At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept
in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered
the new idea too complicated to implement.
- Michael Bergdahl
The more complicated and powerful the job,
the more rudimentary the preparation for it.
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking
about the way you're drawing it.
- Sergio Aragones
The trouble about man is twofold.
He cannot learn truths which are too complicated;
he forgets truths which are too simple.
- Rebecca West
It must be a balance in everything we do,
not too much of everything, keep it simple,
not complicated.
- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top.
You know they can't play my stuff.
It's too complicated.
- James Brown
Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated
and detailed as the IRS code!
- Harold H. Greene
Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body...
but it's more complicated than that.
- Tony Parker
I was once married to a woman who could eat anything
and tell you what was in it:
the most complicated recipes.
Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!
- Morton Feldman
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I want to work on some more complicated baking...
and it would be interactive!
- Lisa Loeb
Two people could build an outhouse in four hours.
They're not complicated.
- Robert Maxwell
I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get,
which is a hindrance.
- Kim Weston
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
- Arnold Palmer
The dream factory of that time was much simpler.
As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated.
- Janet Leigh
All of my problems are rather complicated -
I need an entire novel to deal with them,
not a short story or a movie.
It's like a personal therapy.
- Manuel Puig
The circumstances of human society are too complicated
to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
- Marquis De Custine
The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed,
although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily
more complicated than we had assumed.
- Walther Bothe
Social Security is an extremely complicated program.
- John Thune
A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism,
or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of
ten know how the apple got into the dumpling.
- Edward A. Boyden
It is just because civilization is ever evolving,
changing, and becoming more complicated,
that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.
- Arthur Keith
It's very complicated because I cannot wear the same thing too often.
- Julie London
It's quite complicated and sounds circular,
but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
- Larry Page
Because of all the concurrent stories going in 24 and its fast pace,
it can be complicated in terms of the story,
so I thought sound could help with the storytelling.
- Stephen Hopkins
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