Quotes About Complexity

We are split people.

oh, he loves her; just as the English loved India and Africa and Ireland; it is the love that is the problem, people treat their lovers badly)

He is a black man. He is often thought of as a nothing, a cipher. But he has layers upon layers upon layers.

From where I stood it was a pose that collapsed many periods in her life into one: mother and lover, big sister, best friend, superstar and diplomat, billionaire and street kid, foolish girl and woman of substance.

Strange inversions proliferate.

Most of us have complicated backstories, messy histories, multiple narratives. It was a high-wire strategy, for Obama, this invocation of our collective human messiness. His enemies latched on to its imprecision, emphasizing the exotic, un-American nature of Dream City, this ill-defined place where you could be from Hawaii and Kenya, Kansas and Indonesia all at the same time, where you could jive talk like a street hustler and orate like a senator.

When I was a kid, I thought I'd rather be a brain in a jar than a "natural woman." I have turned out to be some odd combination of both, from moment to moment, and with no control over when and where or why those moments occur.

De fapt, în mintea mea, era în acelaÈ™i timp pe de-a-ntregul adev?rat È™i evident o minciun?, È™i poate numai copiii sunt în stare s? accepte asemenea adev?ruri cu dou? feÈ›e.

Millat was half sure that he was possibly maybe going to do something or not that would be correct and very silly and fine and un-good.

Even the simplest ideas I'd brought with me did not seem to work

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he is a saint or they are not telling the whole story.

Basing his work on F.R. Leavis's (1895–1978) ideas on literary criticism, Hoggart argued that a critical reading of art could reveal "the felt quality of life" of a society. Only art could recreate life in all its rich complexity and diversity.

It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.

Nothing is absolute in security.

Just because I try to read a lot of stuff doesn't mean I can fully conceptualize all of these intense, big, abstract ideas.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.

My adaptations are just as complicated as an original.

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.

Being an adult comes with a whole new set of issues.

I think a lot of people don't understand how deep AI already is in so many things.

There is something about the airline industry that really grabbed me.

I have back-and-forth feelings about everything a lot - it's not limited to my albums.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?