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Quotes About Complex

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.
~ Jason Schwartzman
I'm glad that cinema is catching up to what television has known for a while: That three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men.
~ Natalie Dormer
'Deity' will be a compelling and exciting thriller with complex and interesting characters. A neo-realistic style to story and images will take the audience deep into Calcutta's many different levels. A fascinating clash between American and Indian culture.
~ Niels Arden Oplev
Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence.
~ Noah Feldman
I would love to do the whole 'Anonymous General Manager' storyline again. The way it was supposed to turn out was that I was supposed to be this almost mob-boss style character with this Napoleon complex, throwing his power around while running Raw. Obviously things didn't work out that way.
~ Hornswoggle
The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic thrust behind it. It's hard to shut off because politicians rely upon the steady flow of jobs to their district that the prison system and its related industries promise.
~ Eugene Jarecki
I have seen a man charged with revolutionizing incredibly complex government information technology systems who did not know how to use a thumb drive.
~ Ben Domenech
Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.
~ Ivan Pavlov
In the late 1970s, an intriguing diagnosis of the species problem was given by the biologist Michael Ghiselin and the philosopher David Hull . They argued that the problem as traditionally formulated rested on a mistaken assumption, namely that a biological species is a kind, or type, of thing. Instead, they argued that a species is a complex individual; that is, a particular thing.
~ Samir Okasha
She was our friend and our enemy, Chancellor Xanon," Naelin said. "We will mourn our friend who was killed by our enemy. Surely you understand that a life is more complex than a label. We can love who she was while we hate what she's done.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.
~ Michel Gondry
People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.
~ Don McLean
Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.
~ Stone Gossard
See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.
~ John Green
I got feelings I don't know the names for. There probly ain't any names. Probly nobody else ever had 'em. I tell you what, I wouldn't wish 'em on a snake.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Para el escritor latinoamericano, Borges significó la ruptura de un cierto complejo de inferioridad que, de manera inconsciente, por supuesto, lo inhibía de abordar ciertos asuntos y lo encarcelaba dentro de un horizonte provinciano.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
It was the cause of many of Dad's outrages too, when people elected themselves his personal oracle of Delphi... They'd made the mistake of abridging Dad, putting Dad in a nutshell, telling Dad How It Was (and getting it all wrong). ... The act of being personally misconstrued, Dad said, informed to one's face one is no more complex than a few words haphazardly strung together like blotchy undershirts on a clothesline-- well, it can fall the most self-possessed of individuals.
~ Marisha Pessl
Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring the human brain. We are literally upgrading our minds by downloading the mind of Christ.
~ Mark Batterson
Souls are complicated things.
~ Mark Helprin
Marine ecology is complex and tightly interwoven.
~ Mark Kurlansky
for the rest of my life- to resemble this one: both complex and strangely comforting.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I was somewhat put out to find that recurrent projections in the mind of the images of either of them, Jean or Suzette, did not in the least exclude that of the other. That was when I began to suspect that being in love might be a complicated affair.
~ Anthony Powell
It is in their interests to have a stable, skilled labour force, a permanently well-adjusted complex, because the human complex (the collective worker) of an enterprise is also a machine which cannot, without considerable loss, be taken to pieces too often and renewed with single new parts.
~ Antonio Gramsci
There are four kinds of Tragedy, the Complex, depending entirely on Reversal of the Situation and Recognition; the Pathetic (where the motive is passion), — such as the tragedies on Ajax and Ixion; the Ethical (where the motives are ethical), — such as the Phthiotides and the Peleus.
~ Aristotle