Quotes About Complexity

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

I don't buy into the glory days thing. I think every time has its great things to it. The '60s were such a glorious time but it's easy to forget that there was all sorts of bullshit too.

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.

I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.

How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.

We live in a complex world and at a challenging time.

This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.

Loving you is a full-time job. It's a great job, don't get me wrong. It's the best job in the universe. But it's not easy.

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.

This is a complicated time to govern in the world today because of so much going on and it's coming at us at such an unprecedented rate.

It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.

Cancer can take a long time to develop and necessarily has multiple causes.

I'm pretty sure whoever said, people are wonderful spent very little time with people.

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.