Quotes About Complexity

Fox as Hedgehog

multifarious lifestyles among members of his circle.

I now believe there is a God...I now think it [the evidence] does point to a creative Intelligence almost entirely because of the DNA investigations. What I think the DNA material has done is that it has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements to work together.

There are many things in life that cannot be explained.

There are some relationships that succeed only because they are impossible, that actually need unhappiness to continue.

Modern life is a great tapestry, and if you wish to take control of it all, you must seize hold of every strand.

Man was a complicated animal capable of extraordinary good and great evil – but he was definitely on his own.

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The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The good news is that intersectionality provides us a way to see it.

History provides no precise guidelines.

I've always loved the idea that you think you know what you're looking at from a distance, yet when you come up close, it gets intricate and nutty and obscene and provocative.

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.

Being a good actor is sort of understanding the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us perfect.

I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.

I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas.

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.

I think the dark psychology of human beings is very interesting as an artist.

I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

Defining of the public interest is always very, very difficult.

Justice is not easy. It does not fit the mold of public opinion.

I feel like I've got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.

Putting out compilation records, buying the right to music is incredibly complicated. You have to find the writer of the song and the publisher of the song - not the singer - and make two separate deals.