Quotes About Complexity

It's a very complicated relationship that I have with America. I love it so much. And I also see the places where it's flawed.

Nobody can look back into our history and look at everyone who contributed into our development as a country and find someone who's flawless.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

People are made up of flaws.

Flaws are really interesting.

I love the flaws and foibles of people - I'm much more interested in that than perfections.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

Blackness has always been stigmatised, even amongst black people who flee from the density of that blackness. Some black people recoil from black people who are that dark because it has always been stigmatised.

Really complicated, interesting women at the centre of very, very well written dramas - and that's what floats my boat.

Playing deep-stack, no-limit hold'em is a very complex game where the most critical and difficult decisions come after the flop.

John Martin was a great, complex folk singer, and later on, his music became more and more melancholic as he went through a separation with his wife.

I like complicated dishes but also appreciate simple foods.

I always break it down I am three different people. I'm Troy Deeney the footballer, I'm daddy who the kids get to see and I'm Troy which a few of my mates get to see.

We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.

Be more conscious about what you say about foreign policy issues, because they are complicated.

Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.

Take a look at Mila Kunis. When you see her performance in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall,' you see a beauty there, and also a sadness.

It is difficult to click your fingers and say, 'Right, go and play that formation now.'

As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.

It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.

There are many different forms of bipolar and the way that it expresses itself.

But I found out that bones with flesh are more interesting than bones without.

America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.

I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.