You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It's no more complicated than that.

To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.

The U.S. has the most complicated and difficult tax system in the world; we've made it hard to file and pay taxes.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.

I'm always excited about music, but having spent so much time in its pursuit - well, my musical life is complicated.

The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

Relationships are super complicated and always have dark and light in them. And all good sexual relationships do, too.

No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works.

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

I would say the No. 1 problem with the Volcker Rule is it's too complicated, and people don't know how to interpret it.

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

I think that with West Ham, it was more complicated for me. It happened naturally; there was urgency to leave West Ham.

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

Everyone has complicated lives, but the more you can simplify it and make it work for you, the better it is going to be.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.

I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.

Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.

There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.

I found a place under a bridge in Goa where you could have fresh crab and beer. It was nothing complicated, but delicious.

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe.

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

The thing I'm most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems?

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions.

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

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