Quotes About Complexity

When people meet me or hear me in person, they quickly learn that I am much more than a tweet and a profile picture.

It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.

Trying to explain the First Step Act in prison reform in a tweet or Facebook post is not easy.

Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the whole place. The most impactful movies were 'Godfather II' and 'Scarface'. I loved the human complexity, and those movies are so well shot. Cinematic greatness. I really stopped going in my early twenties.

I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fanny than because of her. Like Fanny's rich, sophisticated cousins, I didn't really get her.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

I think that the larger and more complex the business gets, I have to listen twice as much as I speak.

Woody [Allen] is a fascinating character to be around. You don't really know what he's going to want. You're on your toes, but you're on your heels too, if you know what I mean.

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.

Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.

Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.

Health care's complicated, can be misrepresented, it's personal, it can spark fear, it's expensive, and the people who have got the money want to keep it.

I couldn't only do one thing--I don't want the personal hell of oneness.

Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.

There are very complicated issues here [about NATO], and I don't want to give them short shrift.

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

I like the opportunity to play characters who have these dark sides but make the audience empathize with them. You want them to think there is some kind of sweeter, softer side to it.