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“My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.”

Life Death Complexes Insanity Life And Death Psychiatrist Messiah

“Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.”

Men Doe Has Beens Boys Son Complexes Never Quit Boyhood

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago have been made ... We have failed not for lack of hypotheses which equate man with the rest of the universe, but for lack of a hypothesis (short of animism) which provides for the peculiar divergence of man ... Let me now state my belief that the peculiar factor in man which forbids our explaining his actions upon the ordinary plane of biology is a highly specialized and unstable biological complex, and that this factor is none other than language.”

“Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.”

Together Suffering Evil Sin Common Horror Complexes Linked Submerged

Book:Simone Weil

Source: Simone Weil

“My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.”

Together Style Complexes Songwriting Rock N Roll Songwriters Borrowed Writing Songs

Author:Boz Scaggs

“Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make a very simple melody really different. You can also have a complex melody. The more complex it is, the harder it is to sing, and then sometimes it can sound contrived. You could write a melody that would be fine on a saxophone but if you give it to a singer, it can sound raunchy.”

Ifs Giving Writing Different Sometimes Would Be Sound Simple Interesting Behinds Fine Harder Harmony Complexes Be Good Singers Melody Songwriting Saxophone

Author:Donald Fagen

“The tie is stronger than that between father and son and father and daughter. The bond is also more complex than the one between mother and daughter. For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.”

Knows Mother Father Chance Existence Son Offers Daughter Stronger Complexes Males Mysterious Ties Father Son Mother And Daughter Father And Son

Author:Carol Klein

“Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling or event, making words rhyme and saying exactly what we want them to say in a short amount of time. ...the primary reason for keeping it short and to the point is to be certain that you're not boring your audience.”

Want Writing Hard Reason Feelings Faces Certain Song Difficult Audience Events Amount Complexes Boring Primaries Songwriting Rhyme

Author:Ann Reed

“Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also simple enough to be memorable. Jimmy Van Heusen was a master at this kind of song. His music was complex, with deeply rich chord changes any jazzman can embrace, but also possessed catchy, crystalline melodies of exceeding sing-ability. His songs were meant to be sung, not just listened to, and they were sung by the best, with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby at the top of that list.”

“Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.”

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Author:Carrie Newcomer

“The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people's expense, whether whites know/like it or not. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn't care if you are a white person who likes Black people; it's still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don't look like you.”

“A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go. It is, for instance, a continuous struggle for food and air. If food or air fails, we die. Life is not a simple and smoothly flowing thing, but it is a compound effect. This complex struggle between something inside and the external world is what we call life. So it is clear that when this struggle ceases, there will be an end of life.”

Source: Karma Yoga

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.”

Art Shows Artist Opinion Diversity Art Is Mirrors Complexes Critics Surface Symbols Works Of Art Disagree Spectators Peril Accord Beneath The Surface

Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

“It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.”

Feelings Direct Unity Complexes Visible Magnificent

Author:Albert Einstein

“God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.”

Mind Problem Given Difficult Situation Sticks Complexes Intuitive Stubbornness Mules Hypothetical Difficult Problems

Author:Albert Einstein

“In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches of France and the fields of England. Her richly complex characters walk right off the page and into our imaginations, as we fight with them, farm with them, cook with them. I devoured this dazzling novel.”

“What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible?”

Children Able Purpose Asks Complexes Lovely Knees Interpretation Theoretical

Author:Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

“Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.”

Mind Has Beens Problem Powerful Complexes Illness Defense Mental Illness Most Powerful Healthcare Complex Problems

Author:Elyn Saks

“Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel that complex flow that is organism, evolution, and environment united. The time has come for biology to enter the nonlinear world.”

World Feels Past United Environment Evolution Flow Tasks Complexes Biology Organisms Nonlinear

Author:Carl Woese

“I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.”

Thinking Next Pieces Complexes Versions Software

Author:Walter Bender

“The media industry grows more complex every day as technology fuels changes in how audiences consume entertainment. World Screen magazine is an essential resource, consistently providing keen insight into the players and latest developments in both established and emerging media markets around the globe.”

World Grows Technology Audience Player Media Development Industry Essentials Resources Complexes Entertainment Insight Screens Magazines Fuel Providing Consistently Globes Emerging

Author:Philippe Dauman

“In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, with its roots in Western fantasies about barbaric others, has been to focus primarily on 'cultural' rather than 'individual' realities. The irony is that anthropology has always been rooted in an 'I' - understood as having a complex psychology and history - observing a 'we' that, until recently, was viewed as plural, ahistorical, and nonindividuated.”

Source: The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart

“In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.”

Way Fields Complexes Dramatic Ambiguous

Author:Isabelle Huppert

“We are a complex species to observe”

Species Complexes

Author:Jasmine Guy

“I find I am more interested in the villain-type roles because they can be so much more complex than just the villain. I don't think anybody sees them as evil per se. They show how close we are to one another. It's an untapped area of art. And I think, physically, I'm not going to play the hero.”

Thinking Art Play Shows Evil Roles Type Hero Areas Complexes Villain

Author:Shuler Hensley

“It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter”

Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically.”

Wells Persons Character Would Be Interesting Fine Doctors Treats Complexes Satan God Complex

Author:Eriq La Salle

“Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.”

Play Character Guy Actors Fun Sides Interesting Complexes Broads Bad Guys

Author:Michael Vartan

“I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.”

Knows Waiting Design Complexes Come Up Explanation Selfish Gene

Book:The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

“I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.”

Thinking Kind Different Play Character Hands Interesting Complexes Fascinating Different Kinds

Author:Anton Yelchin

“Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.”

Feels I Can Country Sometimes Complexes Russia

Author:Anton Yelchin

“I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I want there to be a lot of stuff in it. You're looking for every shot in the movie to have resonance and want it to be something you can see a second time, and then I'd like it to be something you can see 10 years later, and it becomes a different movie, because you're a different person. So that means I want it to be deep, not in a pretentious way, but I guess I can say I am pretentious in that I pretend. I have aspirations that the movie should trigger off a lot of complex responses.”

Way Want Should Years Mean Persons I Can Different Stuff Shots Response Complexes Aspiration Triggers Pretentious Resonance

Author:David Cronenberg

“We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.”

Want Persons Reason Stories Complexes

Author:Annette Bening

“People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.”

People Thinking Way Years Heart Might Young Deals Broken And Love Complexes Life And Love Love And Broken Heart

Author:Rihanna

“Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?”

Mind Forever Mystery Example Lifetime Complexes Extraordinary Active Active Minds

Book:Up Till Now: The Autobiography

Source: Up Till Now: The Autobiography

“You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something — I am God.”

Ifs Asks Let Me Complexes Ask Me Malice God Complex

Author:Alec Baldwin

“One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones.”

Ifs Firsts Use Goal Simple Achieve Movement Complexes Complicated Technique Introducing Achieving Your Goals

Author:Bruce Lee

“I searched so hard for a part that was so complex”

Hard Complexes

Author:Anne Heche

“I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.”

Thinking Persons Play Difficult Interesting Normal Harder Complexes

Author:Christina Ricci

“I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.”

Complexes Inferiority Inferiority Complex Egomaniacs

Author:Eric Clapton

“I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.”

People Writing Would Be Past Stuff Deals Complexes Strive Proxy

Author:Eric Bogosian

“I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.”

I Can Feelings Bears Sight Complexes

Author:Nat King Cole

“The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.”

Ifs Way Should Has Beens Silent Complexes Simplicity Logical Refined Talkies

Author:Mary Pickford

“The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.”

Three Brain Objects Complexes Pounds Solar System

Author:Michio Kaku

“The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole”

Way Writing Wells Whole Problem Faces Fall Simple Pieces Complexes Connected Locals Defined Complexity Software Fixing Interfaces

Author:Eric S. Raymond

“There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.”

People Way Looks Opportunity Structure Complexes

Author:Andrew Fastow

“I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew.”

Complexes Moody

Author:Ryan O'Neal

“What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?”

Knows Needs Political White Crime Percent Complexes Refuse Racist Establishment Asian

Author:Ron Paul

“Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had a incurable case of the military-industrial complex, and said Medicare was socialism that would destroy our freedom. Both sides really should stop pretending he was something other than the man most responsible for our decline.”

“Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There aren't very many humorous fantasy murder mysteries out there, especially not as intricately constructed as this one. Michael G. Munz takes a 'What if,' and runs with it like a toddler with Mom's smart phone. The guffaw-worthy throwaway bits will remind you of Douglas Adams. A very enjoyable read.”

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