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“I think the big thing for Simple Plan is that we were able to keep the band members, the same five guys, the same lineup from the start. That's not easy. We grew up together. We're friends. We come from the same world. We've always had the same dreams and goals. I think we realized, as the years go by, how precious it is to have that, to build that, to see so many bands break up... it makes us realize how different we are to all that. We're really proud of that.”

Thinking World Years Different Dream Bigs Able Together Guy Easy Goal Realizing Simple Break Five Plans Grew Proud Band Members Grew Up Big Things Dreams And Goals Band Members Simple Plan

Author:Chuck Comeau

“Sometimes you just have to sit down a lot and make sure everyone's cool. If someone has an issue, you make sure they don't keep it inside. That's been the model of the Simple Plan.”

Ifs Sometimes Simple Issues Plans Models Simple Plan

Author:Chuck Comeau

“Simple Plan`s trademark is pretty easy. By the time the song ends, you can sing it. It doesn't take 20 listens. It's hard to write those songs but we try our best.”

Writing Trying Ends Hard Song Easy Simple Plans Trademarks Simple Plan

Author:Chuck Comeau

“The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure.”

Simple Pleasure Adventure Mouths Garden Abundance Sensations Horns Tomatoes

Author:Muriel Barbery

“It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth”

Men Littles Simple Interesting Taken Worthy Manners

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“How to manage a project: Limit it in scope. Make it simple. Get success. Then iterate.”

Simple Limits Projects Manage Scope

Author:Auren Hoffman

“We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.”

Matter Simple Musician

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.”

Simple Genius Appreciate Rate Simplicity Programmers Unix

Author:Dennis Ritchie

“My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two worlds. And by those criteria, 'The Color Purple' is actually exactly the kind of story that makes for a great musical. Yes, it's got hard stuff in it, but so does 'Les Miserables' and 'Phantom of the Opera.'”

World Kind Doe Two Hard Stories Stuff Simple Views Color Scene Conflict Finals Musical Love Story Opera Purple Criteria Phantoms Great Music Two Worlds

Author:Marsha Norman

“Angry Birds is a very simple idea but its one of those games that I immediately appreciated when I first started playing, before wishing that I had been the one to come up with the idea first.”

Firsts Ideas Games Wish Simple Bird Angry Come Up Appreciated Simple Ideas Angry Birds

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem?”

People Trying Problem Simple Nice Very Nice Surnames Zuma

Author:Jacob Zuma

“To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just looked at from Exodus and Deuteronomy clicks. What we see is God meeting people at the click they're at, and then drawing them forward.When they're at F, God calls them to G.When we're at L, God calls us to M.And if we're way back there at A, God meets us way back there at A and does what God always does: invites us forward to B.”

People Ifs Way Doe Simple Clear Movement Meetings Drawing Passages Invites Clicks Exodus

Author:Rob Bell

“The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.”

Grows Prayer Simple Rich Praying Our Prayers Psalms

Book:Life Together

Source: Life Together

“Back in the 40s and early 50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.”

People Knows Simple Building Projects Tables Kitchen Hobbies Tubes Kitchen Table

Author:Robert Moog

“I live a fairly simple life, and that didnt change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didnt buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large.”

House Simple One Thing Car Boat Fancy Simple Life New Car

Author:Michael Arrington

“You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.”

Want Next Asks Simple Honest Breaths Being Honest Ask Me

Author:Margaret Mahy

“While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.”

Thinking Jobs Simple Growing Up Growing Depends Pages Turner

Author:Ashwin Sanghi

“A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.”

Mean Stories Found Lost Simple Truth Is Candle Coins

Author:Anthony de Mello

“People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts. ... There's a simple way to keep money out of politics: Keep politics out of our money.”

People Way Facts Government Faces Simple Logic Investment Torture Medieval Simple Ways

Author:Sheldon Richman

“A simple democracy is the devil's own government.”

Government Simple Democracy Devil

Author:Benjamin Rush

“The character of Jesus has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive in its practice, and has exerted so deep an influence, that it may be truly said that the simple record of three years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.”

Years May Said Done Character Three Jesus Simple Practice Virtue Records Influence Mankind Highest Patterns Philosopher Active Strongest Three Years Incentives Moralist Active Life

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.”

Left Simple Pleasure Tea Simple Pleasures

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

“For good is simple, evil manifold.”

Evil Simple Manifold

Book:On Man in the Universe

Source: On Man in the Universe

“The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.”

People Ifs Giving Has Beens Simple Prove Behavior Smart Tools Affirmation Exhibits Prove It

Author:Biz Stone

“Wearing a breathable fabric is the most important thing for me. I also love to keep it simple and keep the number of garments Im wearing ideally at one (a sundress for example), and then add some great jewelry.”

Important Simple Numbers Example Important Things Add Fabric Jewelry Garments Keep It Simple

Author:Hilary Rhoda

“It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.”

Reason Simple Truth Is Obvious Overlooked

Author:Ramesh S Balsekar

“Prayer has been hedged about with too many man-made rules. I am convinced that God has intended prayer to be as simple and natural, and as constant a part of our spiritual life, as the intercourse between child and parent in the home. And as a large part of that intercourse between child and parent is simply asking and receiving, just so is it with us and our Heavenly Parent.”

Men Children Has Beens Made Home Spiritual Parent Natural Prayer Simple Asking Constant Convinced Heavenly Spiritual Life Receiving Intercourse Children And Parents

Book:How I Know God Answers Prayer

Source: How I Know God Answers Prayer

“What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.”

States Bigs Simple United United States Failing

Author:John Podhoretz

“In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You cant be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.”

Ends Simple Politician Servant Cant Public Service Intertwined Public Servants Plain And Simple Ted Kennedy Good Politicians

Author:Chuck Todd

“Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.”

Trying Important Simple Company Design Fabric Innovative Always Trying

Author:Nicola Formichetti

“In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.”

World Should States Term My Own Simple Views Models Management Complexes Curriculum

Author:Dan Ariely

“Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.”

Simple Consciousness Sacred Response Shoulders Shakes Geometry

Book:Thirteen Moons: A Novel

Source: Thirteen Moons: A Novel

“With approximately 75 per cent of our rubbish generated by packaging, a few simple steps - buying loose fruit and veg, choosing products with recyclable packaging, and avoiding individually wrapped portions - can have a big impact.”

Bigs Simple Steps Products Impact Fruit Buying Portions Cents Avoiding Rubbish Packaging Big Impact

Author:Sheherazade Goldsmith

“In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.”

Mind Self Simple Pay Attention Brain Principles Creatures Who We Are Abstraction

Author:Antonio Damasio

“One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour is being able to help people... To teach them they way themselves, to gain confidence in themselves, building up from simple moves to more complex things, to teach them that they are worthwhile people.”

People Way Philosophy Helping Able Moving Simple Behinds Teach Building Gains Complexes Worthwhile Building Up Parkour Gaining Confidence

Author:Chris Hayes

“We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.”

People Humor Funny Simple Cities Bombs

Author:Robin Williams

“Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Simple Answers Morning Audience Models Sunday Preaching Simple Things Disservice Sunday Morning

Author:Andy Stanley

“I am not a multimillionaire. I dont own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.”

Needs Simple Flats Squares Ferrari Yacht

Author:Ferran Adria

“What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.”

Simple Principles Written Pages Economics Fundamentals Fascinating Fundamental Principles

Author:Milton Friedman

“My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.”

Way Body Simple Principles Car Approach Machines Complicated Straightforward Maintenance

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.”

Ifs Body Sports Water Simple Drink Essentials Tired Athlete Your Body Soda

Author:Troy Polamalu

“The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.”

Source: The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave

“What is a positive attitude? The simple definition is the way you dedicate yourself to the way you think. Interestingly, it's also the definition of a negative attitude.”

Thinking Way Simple Attitude Negative Definitions Positive Attitude Negative Attitude

Book:Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude: New Edition, Updated & Revised: How to Find, Build and Keep a YES! Attitude for a Lifetime of SUCCESS & HAPPINESS

Source: Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude: New Edition, Updated & Revised: How to Find, Build and Keep a YES! Attitude for a Lifetime of SUCCESS & HAPPINESS

“What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.”

Needs Helping Justice Simple Clear Unique Understood Dignity Clarity Revolutionary Thinker Elites

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after the event.”

Thinking Should Reason Law Desire Simple Events Illusion Relation Repression Repressed

Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

“Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.”

Matter Can Do Simple Enlightenment Hatred Confusion You Can Do It Craving Straightforward Eliminating Toxins

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.”

Ifs Happens Simple Journey Lucky Things Happen

Author:Peter Mayle

“Theres nothing like being hugged or held or just anything as simple as that.”

Author:Melissa M

“One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.”

Life Is Night Simple Pleasure Morning Genuine Cute Sarcasm Sarcastic Hurrying

Author:Kin Hubbard

“Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.”