"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; ..."

-- Charles Mingus

#Simple Quotes #Complicated Quotes

“My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.”
“Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would just come up and say 'hello' before asking for an autograph. I wish they would just say, 'Hello, I'm so and so, and I just want to shake your hand.' I'm impressed when I find people like that. Most people just say, 'Sign here,' and treat you like a statue.”
“I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.”
“Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.”
“Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.”
“Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.”
“There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn't like what our parents had.”
“Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.”

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