“If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what makes history so complicated. Something doesn't just occur. It's not like a scientific event. It's a human event. So the dimensions of it will be seen differently by different people.” PeopleIfsKnowsHumansDifferentViewsFiveEventsComplicatedPoint Of ViewInterviewsDimensionsDifferent PeoplesIncidentsDifferent Points Of View Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more truth loose in the world, but you can't always be sure it does. You do it because there's a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.” PeopleWorldTryingFirstsLittlesDoeI CanMatterStoriesJobsDifficultPolicyTruth IsImpactComplicatedJournalismTelling The TruthInvestigative Journalism Author:Bill Moyers
“I've become this voice for a millennial generation of feminism, which is awesome, but at the same time it's complicated. We all know I'm a girl, I'm a woman, but it's difficult to figure out how to talk about it and express how important it is without beating it with a hammer and having it be, "So you're a girl in music! So you're a girl in music!" Yes, I'm a girl in music - can we just talk about something else?” KnowsImportantGirlDifficultVoiceGenerationsFeminismFiguresComplicatedHammersMillennials Author:Bethany Cosentino
“I think what we do is really, at times, a complicated thing. But at the end of the day it's so important that we make art for people that need to escape reality for a second. That's what music has always been for me. It's been a way to tap out of what's going on in my personal life.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsArtImportantEndsRealityComplicatedThe End Of The DayPersonal LifeComplicated ThingsEscape Reality Author:Bethany Cosentino
“I think a lot of women who are celebrities and who are very beautiful have terrible problems with their men being very controlling. Women allow themselves to be dominated and controlled by men in all sorts of other ways that are very complicated, you know? I don't really see a lot of women engaging in discussions about the struggles and power relations with men and their lives, like their bosses, boyfriends, husbands, coworkers. I don't see that happening very often, whereas I see a lot of misogyny on the internet. I see a lot of hatred towards women and a lot of fear of women.” ThinkingKnowsMenWayProblemBeautifulStruggleInternetTerribleHusbandHappeningsHatredRelationComplicatedDiscussionBossControlledMisogynyEngagingVery BeautifulCoworkerControlling Women Author:Anna Biller
“Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.” HardAnimalRightsComplicatedMotiveOppositionAnimal Rights Author:Bette Ford
“One is told that you're either a hot writer, or you're finished and you're over. But of course, the more you hang around and the more you become aware not only of what "reputation" is for other writers, but also what your own reputation is, you become aware that it's much more complicated than the conventional media would have you believe.” BelieveCoursesMediaHotComplicatedFinishedReputationConventional Author:Tony Kushner
“I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even though he seems completely the most inhuman and infallible in costume. Psychologically he's one of the most complicated in both his strengths and his weaknesses. For me, one of his great strengths and weaknesses is that confidence. His emotional self-protection is one of the things that makes him heroic and sacrificing; he doesn't have a personal life. He sacrifices those to be the best hero he can be.” ThinkingHumansSelfCharacterSeemsInterestingSacrificeEmotionalHeroWeaknessComplicatedProtectionBeing The BestHeroicPersonal LifeCostumesFlawedInfallibleInhumanStrength And WeaknessSelf ProtectionBest Hero Author:Scott Snyder
“There's an amazing line in Marcus Aurelius: "The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye." Maybe green is your favorite color - but if you saw everything as green, that wouldn't be a blessing, it would be an eye disease. By the same token, if there was no heartbreak, and everything happened exactly as you want - it would be a less beautiful and meaningful story than the actual story, where you're a part of a huge complicated mysterious whole.” EyeBeautifulWishHealthyBlessingComplicatedMeaningfulMysteriousYour Favorite Author:Elif Batuman
“I think journalist is a great profession. It's complicated now. People talk about the demise of investigative reporting.Newspapers play an amazing role in our society, and I still think they are important. I'm sorry newspaper circulation is down. Ultimately, the importance of newspapers can't be replaced.” PeopleThinkingImportantImportanceSorryComplicatedProfessionJournalistReplaced Author:Seymour Hersh
“I judge nothing; I just don't do that. Life is too complicated.” JudgingComplicated Author:Terry McDonell
“That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems. The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated. It's financial of course, but it's also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be. So while I loved not being hungry and having new gear, etc. I missed the sounds of my neighbors and the kind of generosity people who are struggling together often show.” PeopleWritingKindTogetherChoicesStruggleFinancialComplicatedNeighborLifestyleHungryGenerosityContrast Author:Adrian Matejka
“People want to psychoanalyze me, but the fact is, I'm not that complicated. I'm pretty straightforward. And I'm not all that self-reflective, because I tend to be a doer.” PeopleComplicatedStraightforward Author:Condoleezza Rice
“People think of a parasite as simply taking money, taking blood out of a host or taking money out of the economy. But in nature it's much more complicated. The parasite can't simply come in and take something. First of all, it needs to numb the host. It has an enzyme so that the host doesn't realize the parasite's there. And then the parasites have another enzyme that takes over the host's brain. It makes the host imagine that the parasite is part of its own body, actually part of itself and hence to be protected. That’s basically what Wall Street has done.” PeopleThinkingDoneRealizingBrainEconomyImagineWallComplicatedHostImagine ThatNumb Author:Michael Hudson
“Any kind of sequence when you have to express physical space and time can be difficult to story-tell because, if you're sitting there watching it like it's a play or something, your mind can track what's going on, or if you're watching an actual fight you can kind of track what's going on, but as soon as you have to start telling the story and tracking for the audience, it becomes much more complicated.” MindKindFightingDifficultAudienceTrackComplicatedTime And Space Author:Patrick Fugit
“Boys are very basic. If we get food, alcohol, and maybe cigarettes and occasionally some sex, we're pretty cool. We're pretty chilled. What you see is what you get. It's not so many layers. Women are a little bit more complicated, which is why we keep falling in love with you all again and again and again and again.” FallBoysLove YouFalling In LoveComplicatedAlcoholCigaretteFalling In Love With You Author:Johan Philip Asbaek
“Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big Question, of wrestling meaning from the chaos of life. Consequently, when I choose to write overtly or even secretly about my real life, it's always something difficult and complicated that I'm longing to make sense of.” WritingTryingRealDifficultLongingChaosComplicatedReal LifeMy WayMake SenseWrestlingExploring Author:Leslie Pietrzyk
“I'm not really a Facebook fan because I don't know how to use it! It's so complicated! You gotta accept your friends one by one! It's just like too much going on. I tried it though.” AcceptingComplicated Author:Teyana
“A more detailed world is a more complicated and complex one, and therefore a more empathetic one. I feel Gord's Downie lyrics are exceptionally empathetic, or that's what they accomplish. The fact that they can cross all those cultural cliques and boundaries really amplifies that, to me.” WorldComplicatedAccomplishBoundariesEmpatheticClique Author:John K. Samson
“India's notoriously difficult. It's visa routine is notoriously difficult to get a residency permit and all that stuff, so that threw up all kinds of complicated barriers for us. I remember once having to go meet with the foreign ministry official and say 'You know look I have a real problem here. Is this person really important to you?' And I just thought 'My God.' You know my wife and I have been together since college. You know it's 20 years.” KindImportantRealProblemTogetherRememberDifficultWifeCollegeComplicatedMy WifeAll KindsBarriersVisa Author:Lydia Polgreen
“The idea of family is really one of the only things we can all say we have and we can't run away from. Whether you like your family or not. Whether it's complicated or not, there's something - call it spiritual, call it existential, whatever - that's in you.” RunningSpiritualLike YouComplicatedOur FamilyRunning AwayExistential Author:John Krasinski
“I think when it comes to the issues, I'd advise him to stick to the script. But, I mean, Donald Trump is going to have some very tough conversations and he's going to be talking about some very tough and complicated issues in all of the places that he visits.I think anytime a president does things that are humanizing, I think it's - it's good.” ThinkingMeanPresidentToughComplicatedAdvise Author:Robert M. Gates
“The U.S. has the most complicated and difficult tax system in the world; we've made it hard to file and pay taxes.” WorldDifficultTaxesComplicated Author:T.R. Reid
“It was the first time, in the West Wing, I had ever read anyone write a Southerner properly. Because Southern women, in my opinion, are complicated and are equally feminine and driven. That's kind of an unusual combination and people usually tend to get it wrong.” PeopleWritingKindOpinionFirst TimeComplicatedDrivenFeminineSouthernUnusualSouthernerSouthern Women Author:Emily Procter
“The hero of the beloved Star Wars trilogy is Luke. The principle dynamic is the complicated relationship between Luke and his father. Not coincidentally, George Lucas' last name sounds a lot like Luke. That's the one he identified with. George Lucas had a tumultuous relationship with his own father, and people who know him say that you can't understand the backstory of the movies without knowing that his dad was occasionally difficult but also very loving. They had a big break between them. In those movies, he's very focused on sons and fathers.” PeopleWarFatherDifficultBreakSonHeroDadComplicatedFocusedBelovedFather And Son Author:Cass Sunstein
“Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a joy.” JoyComplicatedImpression Author:David Remnick
“Health care is very complicated, and the government's had its tentacles woven deeply into this whole charade for over 50 years. But I don't understand why it's this hard that you can't do anything? It's the same thing as, "Well, Rush, you know, once an entitlement's been put into law, Rush, you can't take it away." Yes, you can! It's just you can't have elected people do it thinking they'll get reelected if they do it. But you can do it.” PeopleThinkingCareComplicatedHealth CareYou Can Do ItOver 50 Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Both sameness and difference are issues for us. A sign of cultural homogenization is that languages are disappearing at an alarming rate. I am heartened by signs that some peoples are fighting back, e.g., the revitalization of the language of the Wampanoag tribe in Massachusetts. But if we reject essentialism about culture, we will be cautious about overgeneralizing about what homogenization is and to what degree it exists. If we think of cultures as dynamic, internally diverse and contested, we will be aware that what looks like homogenization may be deeper down this more complicated thing.” ThinkingCultureFightingLanguageRateComplicatedDisappearDiverseCautiousSamenessBe Cautious Author:David Wong
“I think with Donald Trump we're seeing the sort of utterly vanished line at long last of enter - between entertainment and politics. I mean there's always been an enormous dose of entertainment in politics. Trump has completely erased that line but the Trump phenomenon when it comes to where the media's culpability is how much we should be beating ourselves up, that's a complicated question because one of the distinctive features of our era is we know exactly what consumers are doing almost in real time.” ThinkingMeanLongRealComplicatedPhenomenon Author:Frank Bruni
“We've given people both in print and even more so on TV these enormous doses of Donald Trump because people are consuming enormous doses of Donald Trump. If we had gotten a signal that John Kasich got as big an audience, believe me, you would have seen a lot more of John Kasich so it's complicated who's to blame, the media or the people consuming the media.” PeopleBelieveAudienceBlameComplicatedPrintBelieve In Me Author:Frank Bruni
“Most people, no matter what they do, they don't think they're a bad person. The place where their actions are coming from is a complicated place and a whole personal history. I definitely think that it helped me to look at the world a little less judgmentally.” PeopleThinkingWorldActionComplicated Author:Ari Graynor
“We have a system in the hands of bureaucracy. Everything is difficult. Everything is complicated. And my idea is simply give simplicity to Italy.” GivingDifficultSimplicityComplicatedBureaucracy Author:Matteo Renzi
“At the beginning of the Syrian conflict, I was optimistic. But now, I'm pessimistic, because it's so complicated. It's much worse than before. The whole world is fighting inside of Syria. It will take years and years to resolve.” WorldFightingConflictComplicatedOptimisticResolveSyriaPessimistic Author:Osama Alomar
“I guess the wildcard here is Terrence Malick. He supervised me while I was writing the script for Beautiful Country, and he is a genius, although not always easy to follow. What I learned from him is that the narrative can be tracked through all kinds of scenes, that the strong narrative thread is not always the one that is most obvious. Creating narrative with Malick was a bit like chasing a butterfly through a jungle. This approach to narrative is fun and complicated, something that makes the process of writing constantly interesting to this writer.” WritingKindCountryBeautifulStrongFunEasyInterestingGeniusSceneObviousComplicatedAll KindsButterflyJungle Author:Sabina Murray
“Being a good private equity investor is more complicated than it seems. I would say that there are a few characteristics that are important. If you look at the skill set that you need to ultimately be a successful private equity investor, at least at the senior level, you have to be, in this business, a good investor. You have to be able to help companies perform and you have to have judgment around exiting investments. If you look at the skill sets there, they include some things you can teach and some that you can't.” ImportantHelpingTeachSuccessfulJudgmentInvestmentComplicatedInvestorsSeniorEquity Author:David Bonderman
“It is history that has distorted our lives and complicated issues. The good thing is; whether we like it or not, a lot of us are still fighting. If there was no Nkrumah, there probably won't have been a Fela Anikulapo Kuti. I appreciate the fact that he stood and risked his life. I am proud of his courage, but if you asked if he was a conventional father who did homework with me and taught me music, he did nothing of this.” FightingFatherProudAppreciateGood ThingsComplicatedHomework Author:Femi Kuti
“That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.” PeopleWorldBelieveWarComplicatedWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War I Author:Freeman Dyson
“I'm a civilized person who obeys the law and is pretty easy to get along with, but I'm more complicated than that. I use my work as a way to get all that other stuff out and experiment with feelings and ideas, and the forbidden. That's just part of my process, I think, to identify something forbidden. That's what lures me into wanting to do the work, write the story down.” ThinkingWritingFeelingsEasyComplicatedCivilizedForbidden Author:Liz W. Garcia
“I'm never trying to make a statement about morality ever. If there's a statement to be made, it's "People are complicated. They do things that may hurt other people, or exploit other people, but they may do them for the right reasons, or out of desperation." I don't judge that sort of "bad" behavior. I'm only interested in a world where people break outside of the norm, and I believe people do whatever they have to do to relieve themselves of pain. I just want to watch and see how that plays out.” PeopleWorldTryingBelieveReasonPainI BelieveHurtBreakJudgingMoralityBehaviorComplicatedDesperationNorm Author:Liz W. Garcia
“Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.” MeanMurderComplicatedGenerousAccused Author:Ezra Edelman
“You have to have a good script. You have to have compelling and complicated characters that you want to hang out with. Also, since you're going to be living with your crew and cast, I think it's really critical to create a great working environment, because we're spending so many days, so many hours together.” ThinkingCharacterTogetherHoursEnvironmentComplicatedHanging OutGreat Work Author:Lesli Linka Glatter
“Any country is hard to govern, even a very small country. It's not a question of whether the country is large or small. It's a question of how you relate to the work, to what extent you feel responsible for it. Russia is also hard to govern. Russia is at the development stage of both its political system and the creation of a market-based economy. It's a complicated process, but very interesting. Russia, actually, is not just a large country, it's a great country. I mean its traditions, and its cultural particularities.” MeanCountryPoliticalInterestingEconomyCreationTraditionResponsibleComplicatedVery InterestingGreat Country Author:Vladimir Putin
“Hate is a strong word. I don't really try to hate anything. Yeah, you could say I have a complicated, domestic relationship with America for sure.” TryingHateStrongComplicated Author:Joey Badass
“Changing things is not easy, and I say this without any irony. It is not that someone does not want to, but because it is a hard thing to do. Take Obama, a forward-thinking man, a liberal, a democrat. Did he not pledge to shut down Guantanamo before his election? But did he do it? No, he did not. And may I ask why not? Did he not want to do it? He wanted to, I am sure he did, but it did not work out. He sincerely wanted to do it, but did not succeed, since it turned out to be very complicated.” MenEasySucceedElectionDemocratWork OutComplicatedIronySincerelyPledgeHard Things Author:Vladimir Putin
“I think people will be surprised at some of the things about the shootings by policemen of unarmed African-American men. But I also think it's a balanced view. Balance has become almost a dirty word these days. It seems we're supposed to pick one side or the other. But these issues are extremely complicated. I think people will be surprised at some of that.” PeopleThinkingMenBalanceComplicatedDirty Author:Don Winslow
“What will solve our problems is a specific set of ideas built on bedrock principles that made America the greatest nation to begin with and applying those principles to the unique challenges of this new century. And those principles are not complicated. It begins with a notion that this nation was founded on a powerful spiritual principle, that our rights do not come from government. Our rights do not come from our laws. Our rights do not come from our leaders. Our rights come from God.” ProblemSpiritualChallengesPowerfulLeaderUniqueComplicated Author:Marco Rubio
“My music is not really complicated. It's not really complicated and it's not - I wouldn't say simple - but it's not too, like, looking forward. So actually, like, the sound I have now, maybe it's a little bit better than the one I had, or whatever, but I don't feel uncomfortable yet with my music, you know?” SimpleMusic IsComplicatedUncomfortableLooking Forward Author:John Talabot
“Most of us are flawed, complicated people, and we're all trying very hard to disguise that or hide it from the public. Ultimately, we respond to someone who's capable of doing heroic things but has issues or problems in their life that they can't seem to resolve. I believe audiences identify with that. All of us have those secrets and those things that we wish we could improve about ourselves. And when you have someone who's heroic and flawed, I think it makes us feel better about ourselves.” PeopleThinkingTryingBelieveProblemI BelieveWishSecretAudienceCapableComplicatedResolveHeroicFeel BetterDisguiseFlawed Author:Treat Williams
“Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require in-depth analysis.” GivingMoralAssumingComplicatedCompassAdmirableMoral Compass Author:Joseph Badaracco