Quotes About Nuanced

I'm bi-lots of things but lingual isn't one of them. Wait, did I mean to say that?

Comedy is rarely funny.

I'm a fan of half-hour shows that can be both funny and dramatic.

You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.

Nature is subtle and complex.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

Cooking is so infinitely nuanced that to write completely about how to cook any dish would require a manuscript longer than a David Foster Wallace novel and include twice as many footnotes within twice as many endnotes. And then no one would be able to follow it, let alone cook from it.

But the idea that Stoics don't have emotional skin in the game is a misreading of ancient Stoicism. The Stoics were the most nuanced of early emotion theorists, detailing the layered complexity of emotional life. They describe "proto-emotions" that we feel and can't control, and even a sage isn't impugned for experiencing these starts and startles.