Quotes About Complexity

You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.

I can be a different person at different moments. I may sound chatty and friendly but that could really be a reserved person trying hard not to appear to be an introvert.

Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.

When you take a subject and reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.

Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what's easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is 'romance.'

My life is not a sound bite.

Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.

Mothers and daughters find in each other the source of great comfort but also of great pain. We talk to each other in better and worse ways than we talk to anyone else.

Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.

Big problems usually come from big sources.

All the Southerners think we're Yanks, and all the Yanks think we're Southerners, and all the Midwesterners think we're East. Everybody's always wrong about Louisville. That's kind of why I love it so much.

The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space.

The more I read, to me the more incredible everything is. Based on what I've read, there are all these other dimensional planes and spaces, mathematically proven.

I think that football has changed, it has become more complex. For example, it's faster, you have less free space, and you have to play from such small spaces.

I'm undereducated in politics, and I don't like to involve myself in them because they have dark spaces that I do not want to touch.

Sound is complex; there are many countervailing influences. It can be a bit like a bowl of spaghetti: sometimes you just have to eat it and see what happens.

...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...

Nothing in my life has ever felt so good yet it hurt so achingly bad.

Lying here with him, I realize love is so much more than silly words or actions. It is all encompassing and unfathomable until experienced. It is darkness intertwined with light, good with evil.

Thoughts can be easily expressed by words but feelings are very hard to express by words.

Sometimes the ugliest parts of ourselves are what others love the most.

I wish you couldn't figure me out, but you'd always want to know what I was about