Simple Quotes
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The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I like simple clothes, but sometimes I'll go for a goth-witch vibe.
Lorde
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A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within 10 seconds.
Ted Nelson
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I get cheered more and more for one simple reason: When I step in the ring, I steal the show! I will not accept anything less from myself.
Dolph Ziggler
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Westerns are simple stories where there's good and there's evil and where people had a sense of space and freedom. Growing up in the city, as a kid, you've never really seen that before. It's a beautiful dream to go from concrete to big skies, dirt and horses.
Antoine Fuqua
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A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child, or something you do weekly, such as go out for Chinese food.
Elizabeth Berg
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Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My parents are very humble people who have simple lives... they live in a pleasant little town in China.
Liu Wen
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I am unable to think of any critical, complex human activity that could be safely reduced to a simple summary equation.
Jerome Powell
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal
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Ministry is pretty simple. Love people and help them.
T. L. Osborn
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We keep our music simple, no big gimmicks. We tell stories people can relate to, not hard to understand.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
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The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.
Brian Tracy
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It blew me away, ... As I look back on it, it was a simple trick, but not to me. I was hooked.
Larry Taylor Canned Heat
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Love when you canCry when you have to...Be who you mustThat's a part of the planAwait your arrivalWith simple survivalAnd one day we'll all understand...
Dan Fogelberg
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When I buy clothes, I like to buy them in outfits so I know they go together. I like a very simple, natural style. I never like to be the attention getter; I like to come under the radar and be cool about my look, very classic and stylish. I'm not into fads.
Rena Sofer
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As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how meticulously manage my time.
Alexa Von Tobel
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There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment - one simple, simple feeling - and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.
Taylor Swift
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I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
Paulo Coelho
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Filmmaking is so heavy: there are so many people and trucks and teamsters and costume people and hair people and makeup people. I try to make it light and as simple as possible. It's great for actors. It puts the story up front. It's not about shots and dollies and lighting and sets.
Jean-Marc Vallee
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A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures as that of my heroine, and it is in the sphere of quiet homes-not elsewhere-I believe that a woman can best rule and save the world.
T. C. Boyle
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I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
Barbra Streisand
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White is pure and simple and matches with everything.
Christian Dior
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There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and proclaimed with great self-importance, 'On this site, you are a man; on the other side, you are a woman.' It's time for the winds of change to blow that line away. Simple.
Kate Bornstein