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“You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you've got a writer who's clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.”

Ifs Giving Mind Humans Reason Enough Play Simple Clever Spots Human Mind Blank Clue

Author:Morgan Freeman

“My life has changed because somebody fed my family on Thanksgiving when I was eleven years old. It wasn't the food that changed me, it was the fact that a stranger cared. That's what changed my life. That made me the person I am today and have been for the last 37 years. All that came out of that, that simple act of getting a result.”

Years Persons Has Beens Made Facts Today Lasts Simple Results Changed My Family Stranger Feds Eleven Changed My Life Life Has Changed

Author:Tony Robbins

“When you hit send on a text or tweet, you lose ownership of it - but you don't lose responsibility. Every text you have sent may have been saved and could be out there waiting to be used in ways you didn't imagine. Even the most simple of posts can be used out of context, often unintentionally, and change your future.”

Way May Has Beens Used Waiting Loses Simple Responsibility Imagine Saved Posts Our Future Ownership Your Future Tweet Of Context

Author:Mark Cuban

“I like my politicians and my judges and my lawyers to be simple. I think if you worry about where your hemline is you're really not concentrating on the world crisis.”

Ifs Thinking World Simple Worry Judging Politician Crisis Lawyer Concentrating

Author:Joan Rivers

“The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that.”

Ifs America Simple Century Kings Democratic Legacy 21st Century Luther

Author:Cornel West

“From this simple phenomenon, this idea of saying something twice, more often, as often as possible, in order to make oneself understood - the most artful things developed... the principle of repetition!”

Ideas Order Simple Principles Understood Oneself Phenomenon Repetition

Book:The path to the new music

Source: The path to the new music

“To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.”

Knows Firsts Wanted Simple Answers Painting Finished Finishing

Author:James Elkins

“The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.”

Important Simple Secret Prove Importance Important Things Hiding

Book:Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole

Source: Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole

“It has been said that the question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is so profound that it would occur only to a metaphysician, yet so simple that it would occur only to a child.”

Children Has Beens Said Simple Profound

Book:Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer

Source: Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer

“How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.”

Poetry Simple Poet Declaring

Author:Billy Cannon

“My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. [Other] Japanese restaurants … mix in some other style of food and call it influence, right? I don't like that. … In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. 'This fish from there,' 'This very expensive.' Same thing, start singing. And a lot have that fish case in front of them, cannot see what chef do. I'm not going to hide anything, right?”

Thinking Want Kind Jobs House Simple Cases Too Much Influence Style Fronts Singing Structure Fishes Restaurants Expensive Ingredients Chef Make You Think Carpenter Sushi

Author:Masa Takayama

“The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.”

Humans Stills Simple Poor Technology Truth Is Substitutes Interaction Simple Truths

Author:Robert G. Thompson

“The idea behind The Hole in Our Gospel is quite simple. It's basically the belief that being a Christian, or a follower of Jesus Christ, requires much more than just having a personal and transforming relationship with God. It also entails a public and transforming relationship with the world.”

World Ideas Christian Jesus Belief Christ Simple Behinds Jesus Christ Holes Followers Transforming Relationship With God

Book:The Hole in Our Gospel Special Edition: What Does God Expect of Us? The Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World

Source: The Hole in Our Gospel Special Edition: What Does God Expect of Us? The Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World

“I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.”

Today Order Girl Father Simple Forever Brother Decided Village I Have Learned Father And Brother

Author:Nujood Ali

“I have seen how patients with arthritis, crippled for years, have left their crutches and beds and walked.at the biological clinics (Europe). After a few days or weeks of simple and harmless treatments, the pain from which they suffered for years disappeared and their joints became mobile and flexible again.”

Years Pain Left Simple Week Bed Europe Patient Treatment Flexible Joints Mobile Crippled Crutches Clinic Arthritis

Author:Paavo Airola

“Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so tight; it gets very claustrophobic. Carefree means being wide open from within, not constricted. Carefree doesn’t mean careless. It is not that you don’t care about others, not that you don’t have compassion or are unfriendly. Carefree is being really simple, from the inside. Dignity is not conceit but rather what shines forth from this carefree confidence.”

Ifs Mean Care Simple Compassion Fit Dignity Shining Don't Care Wide Being Real Careless Conceit Carefree Unfriendly

Author:Tsoknyi Rinpoche

“It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man?”

Men Simple

Author:Bert Sugar

“Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.”

Source: Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus

“Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.”

People Thinking Wells Simple Appearance Openness Prophecy Preparing Cunning Refutation

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.”

Mind Left Simple Answers Terrorist Lust Doctrine Confined Decree Left And Right

Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti

“The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.”

Children Simple Dignity Drinking Ancient Milk Bowls Fascination Rite

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Life is so simple when you're just doing your job.”

Jobs Life Is Work Simple

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so simple - you salt them well, put them aside and have patience. But with love, you have no sooner lighted on anything that bears even the remotest resemblance to it than you are perfectly certain it is not only a genuine specimen, but perhaps the only genuine mushroom ungathered.”

Ifs Wells Certain Simple Love You Bears Genuine Salt Mushrooms Resemblance Having Patience False Love Toadstools

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

“Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.”

People Law Simple Conditions Ought Benefits Manners Meant To Be

Book:Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First

Source: Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.”

War Reality Seems Age Poetry Found Lost Speak Memories Simple Daughter Tests Accounts Intuition Fantastic Revolt Unreal Actuality Artifice

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.”

Important Sound Simple Simplicity Redundant

Author:Blake Mycoskie

“There is no recipe for good layout, what must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast. A layout man should be simple with good photographs. He should perform acrobatics when the pictures are bad.”

Men Should Feelings Simple Photograph Contrast Recipes Layout Acrobatics

Author:Alexey Brodovitch

“Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.”

Poetry Simple Sensuous Impassioned

Book:Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings

Source: Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings

“If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.”

Ifs Needs Mean Facts Would Be Values Order Simple Teaching Highest Careful Statements Observation Accurate Indispensable Verification

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear.”

Light Age Simple Clear Involved Statements Prophet Doom Simple Truths

Book:Between Tears and Laughter

Source: Between Tears and Laughter

“The first principle, when you don't know anything about the subject of a thesis, is to let the candidate talk, nodding now and then with an ambiguous smile. He thinks you know, and are counting his mistakes, and it unnerves him... the second principle of conducting an oral, ... is to pretend ignorance, and ask for explanations of very simple points. Of course your ignorance is real, but the examinee thinks you are being subtle, and that he is making an ass of himself, and this rattles him.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Real Courses Asks Simple Mistake Principles Subjects Ignorance Ass Explanation Candidates Subtle Now And Then Counting Ambiguous Conducting Thesis Nodding

Author:Robertson Davies

“The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.”

Years Light Simple Consequence Foundation Observation Interpretation Conception Extensions Insufficiency

Book:Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays

Source: Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays

“For the last year and a half, I went from being a crazy workout girl to sort of saying, "My body wants a little bit a of break." So I kind of stay with more simple stuff and taking walks and not being neurotic about working out and eating right. I started to enjoy life a little bit more. The only downside to that is there's that couple extra pounds and about 4,000 pregnancy rumors, but you know, other than that, it feels great.”

“When I started making enough money to afford high-end, fancy skincare products with sexy bottles and impressive claims, I decided to give them a try. As a result my skin acted up and got irritated. I think sometimes women may be overcleansing their skin. Some products and masks can be too aggressive and irritating for certain skin types. I believe the more simple, natural, and easy the skin care regime, the better off your skin will be.”

“We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.”

People Facts Simple Pay Attention Happenings Slogans Electorate

Author:John F. Kerry

“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.”

People Trying Stories America Spirit Simple Impossible Generations Ready Creeds Odds Unlikely Not Ready Yes We Can Impossible Odds

Book:Change We Can Believe In

Source: Change We Can Believe In

“America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.”

“From the day I took office, I've been told that addressing our larger challenges is too ambitious; such an effort would be too contentious. I've been told that our political system is too gridlocked, and that we should just put things on hold for a while. For those who make these claims, I have one simple question: How long should we wait? How long should America put its future on hold?”

Should Long Would Be America Political Waiting Challenges Simple Effort Office Claims Ambitious Political Systems Contentious

Author:Barack Obama

“Before seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity a poetic comedy that's really funny.”

Trying Children Enough Film Turns Natural Simple Comedy Seeing Childhood Series Resilience Theme Poetic Good Enough Not Good Enough Rarity Small Changes

Book:When the lights go down

Source: When the lights go down

“It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.”

Ends Facts Use Simple Acting Achieve Technique

Author:Marlon Brando

“Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.”

Humans Earth Simple Growing Difficulty Triumph Human Life Providing Triumphant Clouded

Author:Barry Commoner

“Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to have trust in God, or know what it is to walk before Him without fear, in righteousness and true holiness.”

Knows Simple Walks Blood Holiness Righteousness Trust In God Reliance Saviour Mediation

Author:Thomas Chalmers

“I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!”

Lasts Night Asks Grows Simple Growing Up Moon Shore Last Night Maidens

Book:Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

“In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.”

Ifs World May Able Simple Delusion

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“I love simple food. I like to serve the entire animal, not only because it somehow provokes a customer to think about it, but also because to honor of the animal that has been killed for us to eat, you have to eat the whole thing. It would be silly to just eat the chops and throw everything else away.”

Thinking Has Beens Whole Would Be Simple Animal Food Honor Customers Silly Provoking Being Silly Simple Food

Author:Mario Batali

“The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply because it's so obvious.”

Ifs Should Looks Strong Simple Walks Design Evidence Argument Obvious Appearance Contrary Ducks Compelling Absent Overlooked Warrants Quacks Design In Nature

Author:Michael Behe

“Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us.”

Country Age Humanity Simple Share Poet Court Inheritance Being Thankful Excluded Great Poet

Book:The North American Review

Source: The North American Review

“Avoid all refined speculations; confine yourself to simple reflections, and recur to them frequently. Those who pass too rapidly from one truth to another feed their curiosity and restlessness; they even distract their intellect with too great a multiplicity of views. Give every truth time to send down deep root into the heart.”

Giving Heart Simple Views Meditation Reflection Roots Curiosity Intellect Speculation Refined Restlessness Multiplicity Deep Roots

Author:Francois Fenelon

“As to our friend , I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace . Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.”

Giving Suffering Simple Perfect Bears Praying Simplicity Gods Will Enjoyment I Pray Praying To God

Author:Francois Fenelon

“As the reflections of our pride upon our defects are bitter, disheartening, and vexatious, so the return of the soul towards God is peaceful and sustained by confidence. You will find by experience how much more your progress will be aided by this simple, peaceful turning towards God, than by all your chagrin and spite at .the faults that exist in you.”

Soul Spirituality Simple Progress Pride Return Reflection Faults Bitter Peaceful Spite Defects Chagrin Disheartening

Author:Francois Fenelon

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