“Yeah, you always have to be there and remind people of you. It's complicated when you do music, or when you do anything in general. You need time. I don't know if it's because of the weather or what, but [Canadians] seem to have a relationship to time that I like very much.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsSeemsYeahComplicatedWeatherTime Of Need Author:Lou Doillon
“I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to complicate it I hate it because I hate the idea of writing to impress.” WritingTryingIdeasHateWishI HateComplicatedImpress Author:Lou Doillon
“And what they believe in real life is complicated. Theodor Koch-Grunberg wrote in his diary that indigenous peoples in the Amazon see these outsiders following in each other's footsteps as the same person, a single soul traversing across several lives. They also see time as something that doesn't proceed inexorably into the future.” BelievePersonsRealSoulLife IsFollowingComplicatedReal LifeOutsidersDiariesIndigenousFootstepsAmazonIndigenous PeopleLife Is Complicated Author:Tom Cole
“Things don't always tie up in a nice bow. Even when you make strides with people and relationships, it's complicated.” PeopleNiceComplicatedTiesBowsStride Author:Aaron Tveit
“The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated.” LittlesCountryTodayBitsNumbersGoneMiddleRevolutionPeriodsLittle BitComplicatedEastRadicalMiddle East1960sMonarchyTurmoil Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“I used to suspect that in the brain, time is its own representation. I now think the problem is so much more complicated. Initially I was rather impressed by the experiments showing that on complex problems, subjects who are distracted do better in getting an answer than either those who answer immediately or those who spend time reflecting on the problem.” ThinkingProblemUsedAnswersBrainSubjectsComplexesComplicatedExperimentsSuspectsImpressedRepresentationEnd TimesSpend TimeDistractedReflectingComplex Problems Author:Patricia Churchland
“In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one felt uncanny and one's heart sank.” HumansHeartRealityFeltUnderstandingRelationComplicatedHuman RelationsUncanny Author:Stephen Karam
“I don't find it difficult anymore, because these days, Raf is only men and Dior is only women. I found it much more complicated when I was doing Jil Sander for men and women. It wasn't that it was the same, but I'm specific about where I want to go, and when you suddenly have to do two men's collections in the same moment, that was more difficult.” MenWantTwoMomentsFoundDifficultMen And WomenComplicatedThese DaysCollectionsDiorRaf Author:Raf Simons
“I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.” YearsMadeDifferentDoneLastsBitsFiveSixTrackStudiosComplicatedFive YearsLast Five Years Author:Aphex Twin
“I'm less interested in uniqueness than in goodness. I see so many concerts where the program notes are more interesting than the music. I remember talking to one composer who went through the most complicated mathematical algorithm to generate some material from scratch. It took weeks and weeks, and he came up with a C major chord. For me, honesty is more interesting than originality.” RememberInterestingTalkingWeekHonestyMaterialsGoodnessMajorsProgramNotesComplicatedMathematicalConcertsComposerOriginalityUniquenessScratchesChordsAlgorithms Author:Anna Meredith
“The most surprising and rewarding chapter to write was the Butthole Surfers chapter. I'd always thought of them as a bunch of drug-addled reprobates - which maybe they were - but it turned out to be more complicated than that.” WritingDrugComplicatedBunchSurprisingChaptersSurfer Author:Michael Azerrad
“I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.” TryingMeanCertainComplicated Author:Justin Vernon
“We're all human and life is complicated.” HumansLife IsComplicatedLife Is Complicated Author:Mark Kozelek
“And Complicated Grief is a text that announces, from the start, in its citation of influence, dense intertextuality and hybridity, a failure of some apparent or usual protections, and a need to re-examine "identity" in the light of an acknowledgement of our entanglements and interdependence.” NeedsLightGriefInfluenceIdentityComplicatedProtectionUsualDenseInterdependenceAcknowledgementEntanglementCitationsHybridityComplicated Grief Author:Laura Mullen
“With Complicated Grief I can say that there was a certain simplification in the process. Getting older means less wasted effort, things are clearer earlier. Being young meant flailing around a lot, especially as I was trying to invent new shapes without a ton of models.” TryingMeanI CanYoungCertainProcessEffortGriefShapesModelsComplicatedGetting OldGetting OlderSimplificationFlailingComplicated Grief Author:Laura Mullen
“Complicated Grief was written in larger and more coherent (if disparate) shapes. The question was how they fit together. The mind is coherent, trust that was the best writing advice I ever got (I got it from Carole Maso and I pass it on). It's true, and clearer and clearer as one grows and gains an improved sense of who one actually is (as versus who one was supposed to be).” IfsWritingMindTogetherGrowsGriefWrittenAdviceFitShapesGainsComplicatedSupposed To BeVersusWriting AdviceComplicated Grief Author:Laura Mullen
“The most important aspect of writing the pieces that make up this eighth book was yielding to my obsessive side, letting my own "complicated grief" in on the process. You can imagine how tempting it is to try to fight the part of you that loops and loops, caught up in tangled sorrow from which it seems there's no escape.” WritingTryingImportantBookSeemsFightingProcessSidesMy OwnGriefPiecesImagineSorrowAspectCaughtComplicatedCaught UpObsessiveTemptingLoopsTangledComplicated Grief Author:Laura Mullen
“Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal shame, something it seems she would want us to forget (but no one would forget). (Maybe an interesting "discussion question" for readers of Complicated Grief might be, "What do Terry Barton and Miss Havisham have in common?"?)” WantMomentsSeemsMightSocialForgetInterestingCommonGriefAwarenessMissingReaderShameComplicatedDisasterDiscussionSmoothPatriarchyWant UGlitchesHavishamMiss HavishamComplicated Grief Author:Laura Mullen
“And sometimes the clergy are blindsided by that. Other times they realize that ahead of time and say they're not going to use those terms. So it gets complicated for sure.” SometimesUseTermRealizingComplicatedClergyAhead Of Time Author:Michael Emerson
“I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.” LongImportantStatesSongBreakEssentialsComplicatedArrangements Author:Rokia Traore
“The acceleration and saturation leads to things becoming outmoded, or out of fashion before they've even happened. That's a pretty complicated situation. Hype becomes autonomous from its object and runs away with itself.” RunningSituationHappenedFashionObjectsBecomingComplicatedRunning AwayHypeAutonomousAccelerationSaturation Author:Kode9
“I have people that are affected by what I do, what I say, and that would be the one place where it gets complicated. But being honest and truthful - I just believe that's the best way to be.” PeopleWayBelieveWould BeHonestComplicatedBest WayBeing HonestAffectedTruthfulJust Believe Author:Gwen Stefani
“I don't deny people their fantasy life, but I do think that we desperately need to start realizing just how complicated our reality is in America. Sitcoms just don't show us that.” PeopleThinkingNeedsShowsRealityAmericaRealizingFantasyDenyComplicatedSitcomFantasy Life Author:Richard Rodriguez
“There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.” PurePressurePressesComplicatedInvolvementNo Pressure Author:J. K. Rowling
“The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean that the world is just extremely complicated - lots of different and competing stories and strands; the continuing reality of megaterrorism; and the dysfunctionality of our politics that has neglected the foundations of the U.S. role in the world; have altogether left us somewhat confused.” WorldMeanDifferentWarStoriesRealityLeftEnemyRolesColdDevelopmentFoundationComplicatedAbsenceComplexityConfusedContinuingCold WarCompetingNeglectedStrands Author:Graham T. Allison
“Jet lag depends on which direction you're going and it can be a little complicated, but there are a few different treatments. So one would be if you're going somewhere - sorry it's hard to think about it.” IfsThinkingLittlesDifferentHardWould BeDependsSorryComplicatedTreatmentJetLagJet Lag Author:Shelby Harris
“Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.” BigsLinesSpecialShapesConcernedCornersComplicatedScalesSmoothGeometrySingularityEuclid Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.” PeopleHas BeensUsedChoicesFoundDifficultAcceptingComplicatedComplicationAccepting Things Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.” LinesShapesComplicatedCirclesSmoothGeometryStraight LinesRoughness Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“Working in a family business, which obviously The Trump Organization is, is an incredible thing, but it's complicated. It's complex.” TrumpOrganizationComplexesIncrediblesComplicated Author:Ivanka Trump
“And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.” WritingWellsI CanFeelingsCan DoComplicatedWriting WellComplicated ThingsFluency Author:Edward Hirsch
“If we grew up with nothing, we're complicated with that. That's the thing I keep hearing from people.” PeopleIfsGrewGrew UpComplicatedHearing Author:Dani Shapiro
“I mean we know that some choice makes you better off than no choice. Now do we get better off if we go from a lot of choice versus a few choices? And there I think the answer is much, much, much more complicated.” IfsThinkingKnowsMeanChoicesAnswersComplicatedGet BetterVersusBetter Off Author:Sheena Iyengar
“The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and Piggy are riding bicycles in Battersea Park in London and that was a complex marionetting and cranes driving through the park, it was a complicated scene, and I did that with my dad.” FirstsBigsDadSceneComplexesMy DadComplicatedLondonDrivingParksRidingBig ThingsSequenceBicycleCranesRiding A BicycleMuppetPiggyCapers Author:Brian Henson
“Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.” ProblemComplicatedCurious Author:Carl Andre
“It's very important to understand that climate change is not just another issue in this complicated world of proliferating issues. Climate change is THE issue which, unchecked, will swamp all other issues.” WorldImportantIssuesEnvironmentClimateEnvironmentalClimate ChangeComplicatedGlobal WarmingSwampsComplicated World Author:Ross Gelbspan
“Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?” IfsThinkingLittlesHardFunDistanceComplicatedDramatic Author:Norah Jones
“I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.” PeopleSimpleComplicated Author:Sinead O'Connor
“When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're in a far more complicated world than that. I frankly think that this binary philosophy is actually a dangerous way to look at the world.” ThinkingWorldWayLooksPhilosophyBigsGuyEvilWinningDangerousComplicatedVersusGood GuyBig MovieBinaryComplicated World Author:Gavin Hood
“I have a few other films in my life where I'm not attached and for a long time it was too complicated. Now it's starting to change because other actresses actually want to work with me, which is great.” WantLongFilmLong TimeStartingComplicatedActresses Author:Julie Delpy
“I'm always talking to people. It's not that complicated. I just find somebody and say, "Do you have any ideas." If they do, we just start thinking things around.” PeopleIfsThinkingIdeasTalkingComplicated Author:Judd Apatow
“I felt differently about her [Gypsy Rose Lee] during every phase of the research and writing process. Often, I felt incredibly sorry for her; she had an extremely difficult childhood and a complicated 'to say the least' relationship with her family, her mother especially.” WritingMotherFeltProcessDifficultChildhoodResearchRoseSorryComplicatedPhasesWriting ProcessGypsyDifficult ChildhoodResearch And Writing Author:Karen Abbott
“When Alan Rickman, a dear friend of mine, played villains, he always made it complicated. He didn't redeem what they did, but he made you feel that it was hard for them to be so horrible.” FeelsMadeHardMinesDearComplicatedHorribleMade ItVillainDear Friend Author:Susan Sarandon
“There's such a kind of complicated line between politics and the law and we don't sit around and say, hey, you know, what would Oliver Wendell Holmes have had to say to this.” KnowsKindLawLinesComplicatedHeyHolmesHey You Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial independence. And it's always, I think, problematic when an unpopular decision triggers a recall election. Because it sends a disempowering message to judges. On the other hand, it's the only way that voters have to rein in someone whose views are really so out of the mainstream of public opinion that they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judicial process.” ThinkingWayWantWholeHandsProcessDecisionViewsOpinionJudgingMessagesElectionIndependenceComplicatedAccountabilityVotersMainstreamRecallsPublic OpinionTriggersJudicialReinsLegitimacyJeopardizeUnpopular Decisions Author:Deborah Rhode
“I'm not complicated at all. I say raps that your two-year-old son can learn.” YearsTwoSonComplicatedRapTwo YearsTwo Year Olds Author:Snoop Dogg
“Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.” StoriesFilmPowerfulAcceptingEasierComplicatedVersionsCompellingTrue StoryPopular Film Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things.” PoliticalOpportunityPolicyThreatComplicatedCampsReferendums Author:Martin Schulz
“Because there are so many factors when considering the potential impacts of GMOs on our health and environment, we wanted to make a film that could unpack complex subject matter, while taking the audience on an entertaining ride. It is a very powerful tool because it allows viewers to understand the nature of these very complicated issues in a digestible format, and then hopefully engage in a dialogue about them in their respective homes and communities.” MatterHomeWantedFilmCommunityPowerfulAudienceIssuesEnvironmentSubjectsToolsImpactComplexesComplicatedDialogueFactorsHopefullyEntertainingConsideringViewersVery PowerfulSubject MatterFormatGmos Author:Zoe Lister-Jones