Quotes with simple-minded

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  • Bill Viola My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Big Smo Myself, I'm just a simple country boy who spent time on the streets and developed a style of writing and rapping and a cool sound that people seem to enjoy.
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  • Barry Ritholtz Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • John Ruskin No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Greil Marcus No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
    Greil Marcus
    American author, music journalist and critic (1945 - )
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  • Nicolas Chamfort No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • An Wang No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
    An Wang
    Chinese–American computer engineer and inventor (1920 - 1990)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • John Pierpont Morgan No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
    John Pierpont Morgan
    American banker, financer, art collector (1837 - 1913)
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  • Marilyn French Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bobby Flay Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when it comes to the home cook, because they're not intimidated by them. If I'm doing 'Boy Meets Grill,' and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • W. H. Auden Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • James Watson One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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  • Bob Hoskins One of the things I've realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: 'Look love, I'm a simple man. I love you. End of story.' But I guess you gotta keep saying it with women. I guess she needed reassurance.
    Bob Hoskins
    English actor (1942 - 2014)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough:
    Man meets woman, and they fall in love,
    But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough.
    You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.
    Tunnel Of Love (1987) Tunnel of Love
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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