Quotes About Complexity

There are so many different kinds of relationships, so it's sort of difficult to define what is considered normal.

I know that I play a mother all the time, but different kinds of mother.

I think there's too many rules in golf. And I mean that's easy to say for a player, but putting together a rule book is a tough thing in this game because there are so many different parts of the game.

When I say there's a little bit of Erika Jayne in everybody, what I mean by that is: No one is one way all the time. No one is buttoned up all the time and no one is wild all the time. There are different parts to your personality, different layers - and that's really what Erika Jayne is, another layer to a human being.

We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

It's not a secret that I'm, like, 12 different people rolled into one. Like a lot of people are.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

I deal with more complex rhythmical patterns than a regular tap dancer. I even think in rhythms.

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

I hope readers will think that 'The Thing About Life' is beautifully patterned, a tapestry.

Every little pocket of Los Angeles County is almost like its own state. It has its own way of being and own way of feeling, and parts of it feel like the Midwest, and parts of it feel like the East Coast. It's a rich tapestry.

My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.

I'm calling the Cube, it's a piece of art. At the same time, it's an intellectual task as well.

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.

Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

I loved doing 'Bad Moms.' I loved doing 'We're the Millers.' But now that I've tasted complexity, it doesn't matter what the genre is - it would be really hard to go back.

Progressive metal is one of the hardest styles of music to pull off live, especially while providing a tasteful show.