Simple Quotes

• When I was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. To me, that simple mission still holds true.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • True
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• There's something clean, simple, and even detoxifying about a loaf that contains nothing more than the best stone-ground, whole-meal flour, salt, yeast and water.

  

  Paul Hollywood
  • Simple
  • Clean
  • Loaf

• Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company with a portfolio approach: If you could only do one thing, what would it be? And you can't rationalize the answer, and you can't attach the one thing to some other things. It's just the one thing.

  

  Jeff Weiner
  • True
  • Question
  • Simple

• A simple story filmed with limited sets can often be more effective than a costly extravaganza. provided it had depth and allows the audience to identify with the character.

  

  King Vidor
  • Character
  • Simple

• An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Simple

• Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Difficult
  • Films
  • To Do

• Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

  

  Willie Stargell
  • Children
  • Simple
  • Pleasure

• Everyone in the dating business wants to know what women want - it's the billion-dollar question. But it's simple: put one in charge, and you find out.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Women
  • Business
  • Question

• I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Individual

• Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Simple

• Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself, or desire to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding.

  

  Andre Comte-Sponville
  • Thinking
  • Complex
  • Beholding

• Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

  

  Mia Wasikowska
  • Simple
  • Knows
  • Feminism

• I've always liked simple. Growing up, I wore corduroys and Lacoste shirts, Maraolo flats, and maybe one gold bracelet.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Gold

• Romesco with asparagus is simple and brilliant.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Simple

• Phenomena complex-laws simple....Know what to leave out.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Law
  • Simplicity
  • Complexes

• Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Artist
  • Bills
  • Malnutrition

• A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look at it at a glance, they get it. Boom. Simple. Direct to the point. But when you're drawing Groo, now it's a narrative, a story. You want the viewer to get involved in the story. You want him to feel like he's in the town to follow your main character. So I love to add lots and lots of things in it. Things that people will enjoy going back to and say, "Oh yeah, that's how a market must have looked in this fantasy world, with people selling meat here and dishes here."

  

  Sergio Aragones
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• Americans are pragmatic; we want quick, clean, simple solutions to vast problems. The paradox is that we're a deeply confessional culture, but we're not often contemplative.

  

  David Means
  • Culture
  • Simple

• I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy. And what is the truth, Stark? It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Humanity
  • Animal
  • Boys

• The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Thoughts
  • Inspiration
  • Everyday

• It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.

  

  William Winwood Reade
  • May
  • Credit
  • Arms

• The workplace has become a psychological battlefield and the millennials have the upper hand, because they are tech savvy, with every gadget imaginable almost becoming an extension of their bodies. They multitask, talk, walk, listen and type, and text. And their priorities are simple: they come first.

  

  Morley Safer
  • Hands
  • Becoming
  • Priorities

• If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

  

  Melissa Bean
  • Vote
  • Communicate
  • Steps

• Good Deeds Day is based on a simple idea that every person can do a good deed for the benefit of others and the planet. Even a smile that brightens someone else's day is a good deed. I initiated Good Deeds Day to spread the message that everyone can give of themselves, according to their heart's desire.

  

  Shari Arison
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Desire

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