Quotes About Complexity

I think that's an important thing, being able to see women as multifaceted beings that have many layers to them.

The strength of the American higher education system is that it is a multifaceted, multi-layered system, and that is what makes us very strong.

Multimedia scares me off.

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks.

I've always been interested in projects that work at multiple levels.

The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory.

I think it's exciting to have a role with multiple layers.

In any relationship, there's multiple moving pieces. Not just one.

There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the virgin birth is mistranslated, for instance, it doesn't mean you have to throw out the whole thing.

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.

Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.

I think that dating other musicians can be complicated at times. Especially when they think highly of themselves.

I want musicians to be looked at as people that are not just doing one thing.

I've realized that it's important to stop trying to think I'm any one thing. People are confused as to their identity and try to cling to one aspect of that identity to describe what they are: American, Republican, Muslim. These are really incomplete.

I don't want to protect my characters. I don't do it with Muslims, either. My job is not to make us look perfect. My job is to make us look messy.

To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.

I'm inconsistent, even to myself.