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Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.
As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
I'm sometimes surprised by myself: no matter how much time has passed, I wasn't able to accept my inferiority complex. But I did.
There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
In basic research, the use of the electron microscope has revealed to us the complex universe of the cell, the basic unit of life.
The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.
You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.
Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.
I was a real mummy's girl - still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I'm still working out. I love that man!
Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate.
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
There should be a tacit code or understanding among privileged people not to endorse things that give others an inferiority complex.
I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.
We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.
When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.
Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.
Can you make fancy patterns of water that actually have some computation power? I'm betting that fluids are complex enough to do this.
It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.
When 'Raazi' released, I think I was ready to embrace complex roles and some challenging characters with responsibility and restraint.
We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.
The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.
Some of the problem with IQ tests stems from the inescapable reality that human intelligence is staggeringly complex and multifaceted.
I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.
In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.
There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.
In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma.
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.
Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.
I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.
People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way.
I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.
We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.