“It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].” ThinkingEasyAnswersComplicatedLandscapeSnowdenEasy Answers Author:Zachary Quinto
“Taking your first title is much more complicated and more difficult; it takes years of work - from go-kart to Formula One. The second comes more easily, because you've already got the experience.” YearsFirstsDifficultComplicatedTitlesFormulasFormula One Author:Niki Lauda
“If you have a weakness for furry slippers or something, you might end up with that kind of advertising. It's a very complicated algorithmic decision. There's no one dude who's deciding what ads are going with things, and it's very individualized also. And that's the idea of collecting information is that in theory, you're showing people things that they should want to see or for which they are a good target. So, no, there's no master person.” PeopleIfsWantShouldKindPersonsIdeasEndsMightDecisionInformationMastersTheoryWeaknessComplicatedAdvertisingTargetAdsCollectingSlippersFurryCollecting Information Author:Tim Wu
“You know, the only reason net neutrality is controversial is because it's complicated.” KnowsReasonComplicatedControversialNeutralityNet Neutrality Author:Tim Wu
“Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not a composer, if they don't have any kind of investment in the music, they'll just add a bit there and another bit there, and you think no! Don't do that. So you end up using a drum machine.” IfsThinkingKindEndsPlayBitsSimpleMachinesAddInvestmentComplicatedBoredComposerDrummer Author:Phil Collins
“I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike.” ThinkingGivingFeelsKindBookDifferentFashionBalanceComplicatedStrikesLazyPermissionGiving YourselfBeing Lazy Author:Emily Barton
“Sociopaths are more complicated psychopaths; the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath is a sociopath is incredibly charming. There are a lot of sociopaths that are CEOs. They don't necessarily kill people but they're able to walk into a big social function and make everybody think they're the kindest, coolest, smartest, most interesting person in the room.” PeopleThinkingPersonsBigsAbleSocialDifferencesWalksInterestingRoomsFunctionComplicatedCharmingCeoMost InterestingPsychopathSociopath Author:Patrick Heusinger
“I'm a trained actor and I can always tone it down, I can always simplify the work I've done. But if I'm asked to bring the nuanced and complicated work, I'll have it in my pocket, and all that information helps.” IfsI CanDoneHelpingActorsInformationComplicatedTonePocketsSimplify Author:Patrick Heusinger
“It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated.” IfsHappensToughLuckComplicatedThings Happen Author:Chrissie Hynde
“Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.” Life IsLiteratureComplicatedAcknowledgeLife Is Complicated Author:Sjon
“"I Get Along Without You Very Well" is not as well-known. It's complicated. First of all, it's range-y. It's not necessarily an easy sing. It's also deep. A lot of times people just don't want to go there.” PeopleWantFirstsWellsEasyKnownComplicatedRangeWell KnownWithout You Author:Kristin Chenoweth
“Everyone is ready to receive this new blueprint. It's simple, easy, flowing. Nothing too complicated, and everyone will feel at home being able to come in and just receive this energy.” FeelsHomeAbleEnergyEasySimpleReadyComplicatedBlueprints Author:Christine McCormick Day
“Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.” IfsThinkingEnoughHelpingSeemsKidsAbleJobsPoliticalTeachDemocracyTroubleFunctionComplicatedCriticalDiverseCritical ThinkingPolitical SystemsBetter JobsDiverse Society Author:Barack Obama
“I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.” ThinkingComputerComplicatedGadgets Author:Mordicai Gerstein
“That's a very complicated issue [with Donal Trump supporters]. There's things going on with people that we're not privy to, we don't understand. These aren't just a bunch of bad people. That isn't how it works.” PeopleIssuesTrumpComplicatedBunchSupporterBad People Author:Joss Whedon
“There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today has - namely the pleasure of creating something. You find quite a few skilled workers who still have that pleasure: maybe in a steel mill; maybe a worker who works with a complicated machine - he has a sense that he is creating something.” StillsCountryAgeTodayPleasureCreativeMiddleCreatingMachinesWorkersComplicatedInstanceMexicoSteelMiddle AgesMillsCreating SomethingArtisansSkilled Workers Author:Erich Fromm
“It's all about, you know, continuing to get to know ourselves in a very diverse and complicated country that is America. It is a wonderful place to live. But because it is so diverse, our challenges are complex.” KnowsCountryAmericaChallengesWonderfulComplexesComplicatedDiverseContinuingPlaces To LiveWonderful Places Author:Michelle Obama
“What goes on in a person's head, what impels them to a political choice, it's a pretty complicated question.” PersonsPoliticalChoicesGoes OnComplicated Author:George Packer
“My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.” KnowsWritingMotherFeltComplicatedComplicated Relationship Author:Wendy C. Ortiz
“President-elect Donald Trump is an unprecedented figure in many respects, in part because there has never been an American president who has such complicated global business interests.” PresidentInterestFiguresTrumpComplicatedUnprecedentedAmerican PresidentGlobal Business Author:Rachel Martin
“If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle populace to allow it to happen, whether through laziness, ignorance or ineptitude, but it also requires a very angry, dissatisfied section of the populace who want egregiously simple answers to very complicated problems.” IfsWantLooksTwoProblemHappensSimpleAnswersIgnoranceAngryComplicatedGentleTwo ThingsFascismLazinessSectionsDissatisfiedDemagogueryIneptitude Author:Moby
“It's the age old thing: If you want to get elected, blame immigrants. It worked in the 20th century and it works now, and it's heart-breaking to see people make the same mistakes. They're looking at a complicated world, but they just keep blaming immigrants, and it's really disturbing that people haven't got past that.” PeopleIfsWorldWantHeartAgePastMistakeCenturyHavensBlameComplicatedImmigrants20th CenturyDisturbingSame MistakesOld ThingsHeart BreakingComplicated World Author:Moby
“The problem is that people really just don't care and they have been "educated" not to care about the monetary system: that it's boring, it's difficult to understand, we need to have high minded people like "Greenscum" and Bernanke to do things like this (and don't forget Volker, there's the whole cast of them). The thing is that people have been educated or miseducated or brainwashed into believing that this is wayyyy too complicated for regular people to understand and that we need to let PhD economists guide us along in terms of what's right... and that's all bull.” PeopleNeedsBelieveHas BeensWholeProblemCareDifficultTermForgetCastsDon't CareBoringComplicatedGuidesEducatedEconomistBullsMonetaryBrainwashedMonetary SystemPhds Author:Bernard von NotHaus
“We've been in lots of places that I suppose, by Oxford standards, would be considered illiterate, but everyone's completely conversant with the idea that here is a number, and that number is above it, and that's too high. It's not a very complicated idea.” IdeasWould BeNumbersStandardsComplicatedOxfordIlliterate Author:Bill McKibben
“Asteroids have hit the Earth millions of times. We can see them as shooting stars every night. When they get bigger, things get complicated. It is only a matter of time until a big one hits us. And since we can do something about it, we should.” ShouldMatterBigsEarthNightStarsCan DoMillionsBiggerComplicatedShootingEvery NightCan Do SomethingAsteroidsMatter Of TimeShooting Star Author:Rusty Schweickart
“You're still being looked at as somebody who - it's a very complicated issue.” StillsIssuesComplicated Author:Ai Weiwei
“Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way, I understand.” WayWritingIdeasBigsDesignComplexesComplicatedAcademicAcademic Writing Author:Michael Bierut
“They [people from the Donald Trump cabinet] haven't had experience in the areas that they're being asked to manage in a very complicated world and a very complicated government.” PeopleWorldGovernmentHavensTrumpAreasComplicatedManageCabinetsComplicated World Author:Claire McCaskill
“I'm going to wait for the confirmation hearings. I'm familiar with General [John Francis ] Kelly because of my work on the Armed Services Committee. I think he is a fine general and I want to make sure that he has a handle on some of the complicated issues that are contained within Homeland Security.” ThinkingWantWaitingIssuesSecurityFineComplicatedHearingHandleFamiliarCommitteesHomelandConfirmationHomeland SecurityArmed Services Author:Claire McCaskill
“The sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house ; it's a very primitive gas. So, it's not something complicated.” DoneHouseComplicatedGasPrimitiveBackyards Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.” PeopleThinkingSometimesBlackMissingComplicatedBlack People Author:Viola Davis
“Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you get these monsters of improbability, like the human brain and the rain forest. It should warn us against ever again assuming that because something is complicated, God must have done it.” ShouldYearsHumansDoneBrainStepsMillionsRainAddAssumingComplicatedMonstersForestsHuman BrainCountenanceImprobableImprobability Author:Richard Dawkins
“The absence of a peace treaty [with Japan] is an anachronism we inherited from the past and it must be removed. However, how to do this is a complicated issue.” PastIssuesComplicatedAbsenceJapanTreatiesAnachronismPeace Treaties Author:Vladimir Putin
“We are ready to meet [with Donald Trump] at any time, this is no problem for us, but I believe we should be patient and wait for the complicated process of forming the new administration to be complete.” ShouldBelieveProblemI BelieveWaitingProcessReadyTrumpPatientComplicatedAdministrationNo ProblemBe Patient Author:Vladimir Putin
“Here in Europe some of the challenges have to do with structures that are so complicated. You've got Brussels, and you've got parliament, you've got councils and then you've got national governments. So people sometimes don't feel as if they know who's making decisions, and the more that we can bring people in and engage them, the better. Some of it is also cultural and social, people's sense of identity.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsSometimesGovernmentSocialChallengesDecisionIdentityEuropeStructureComplicatedParliamentCouncilMaking DecisionsBrussels Author:Barack Obama
“There is a little bit of that schoolyard attitude of, it's one thing for a guy your own size to mouth off to you, but if there's a little guy, you should just smack him around. And it's probably bad advice in the schoolyard. It's certainly not a good way to run a foreign policy because even when you are dealing with a non-peer, militarily, war is complicated.” IfsWayShouldLittlesWarRunningGuyBitsAttitudeOne ThingAdvicePolicyLittle BitMouthsSizeComplicatedForeign PolicyPeersGood WaySmackBad Advice Author:Barack Obama
“Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated.” KnowsHardDealsUnionsCongressComplicatedMultipleParliament Author:Barack Obama
“The same image that I have of all the countries where I am supposed to go: it's far, it's different, it will be necessarily complicated ... It's another part of the world for me coming [from] the United States.” WorldDifferentCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesComplicated Author:Young Thug
“It was stressful [to live as a child in a Sylvian Hills]. It's always been complicated, honestly... I do not really want to tell you, actually. It bothers me that you want me to tell this.” WantChildrenComplicatedHonestlyHillsBotherWant MeStressfulYou Want Me Author:Young Thug
“This film [Teknolust] in particular, showing the way in which having a sexual dialogue with someone can be something developing and changeable and maybe uncomfortable and complicated. Just complicated and human, no more and no less.” WayHumansFilmParticularComplicatedDialogueDevelopingUncomfortable Author:Tilda Swinton
“It's wonderful to actually have an opportunity to get real and show how complicated and fascinating sex is.” RealShowsOpportunitySexWonderfulComplicatedFascinatingGet Real Author:Tilda Swinton
“The repealing and replacing of Obamacare is very complicated. It is what a White House and congressional leadership, serious White House and serious congressional leadership, should meet on and work on and figure out a strategy of, and it may work and it may not. Obviously not every administration gets things through, even when they have much larger majorities in congress and a much larger popular vote than Donald Trump had.” ShouldMayHouseWhiteFiguresSeriousTrumpVoteMajorityStrategyCongressComplicatedAdministrationWhite HouseObamacarePopular VoteRepealing Author:William Kristol
“The bottom line is that it's hard to find a model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for those kinds of efforts. And what makes America complicated as well is the degree to which this is not just a black/white society, and it is becoming less so every year.” YearsWellsKindHardAmericaPoliticalBlackLinesWhiteEffortSupportBecomingDegreesModelsBottomComplicatedBottom LineBlack White Author:Barack Obama
“I just thought someone has to figure out how to break through that barrier and create a narrative for a black super hero story to unfold at the same scale as something like Star Wars. Rythm Mastr is about producing a narrative of a hero engaged in a struggle as complicated as those other stories. The catalyst for it was the beginning of the demolition of public housing in Chicago.” WarStoriesStarsBlackBreakStruggleFiguresHeroComplicatedScalesNarrativeEngagedBarriersChicagoHousingCatalystBreak ThroughSuper HeroDemolitionPublic Housing Author:Kerry James Marshall
“We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness.” WayWantCertainInterestCreaturesComplicatedContradictoryMessiness Author:Kiki Smith
“You can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of great athletes run the other way because they can't be successful initially.” WayRunningSuccessfulBasketballBallsAthleteComplicatedKicksTennisBeing SuccessfulGreat Athlete Author:Jim Courier
“Probably, the secret is to be less complicated. We of course love to make complications - look at the way we live. We have this tremendous amount of information, and probably it is really not so necessary. Maybe if you just drink water, you are kind to people and walk a little bit it's all done already. But we cannot resist this sophistication.” PeopleIfsWayLooksKindLittlesDoneCoursesBitsWaterWalksSecretInformationAmountDrinkLittle BitComplicatedComplicationSophisticationDrink Water Author:Laura Huxley