"In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man."
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"I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry."
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"For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing."
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"We are not engaged in a complicated joke disguised as a religion. We are engaged in a religion disguised as a complicated joke."
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"I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be."
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"All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals."
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"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated."
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"How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is."
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"It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form."
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"Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card."
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"They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that."
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"Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people."
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"We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives."
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"The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn."
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"The complicated futility of ignorance."
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"When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you"
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"A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it."
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"It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose."
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"And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred."
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"It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated."
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