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We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.
Neil Shubin / Paleontologist
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I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted.
Clive Cussler / Novelist
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
A. Whitney Brown / Writer
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Casting is a convoluted kind of trip. No one likes to be typed - even if you're a cab driver, or whatever you do.
Harry Dean Stanton / Actor
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There were a lot of bad relationships that got very convoluted up at Columbia with me, what they expected from me.
Dion Dimucci / Singer
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When people ask me where I am from, with artificial simplicity, they don't understand how convoluted an answer it may sound.
Ashish Vidyarthi /
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Unfortunately, nothing is ever that simple in copyright law, and when it comes to music copyright, it's especially convoluted.
Sarah Jeong /
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When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.
James Cromwell / Film Actor
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I think it works differently for everyone. Some people do amazing things with research, but for me, it just gets convoluted, and I start to think too much.
Dove Cameron /
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Even if politicians spew confusing, convoluted jargon, these people are still meant to represent me, and the only way that happens is if I stay informed and vote.
Tracee Ellis Ross / Actress
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In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabulary as well as anyone, but I would write kidney instead of nephric. I insisted on using English.
Ethan Canin / Author
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The complexity of a tax system is every bit as damaging to competitiveness as the overall tax rate. The more convoluted the tax code becomes, the more time we have to take off work to comply with it.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
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A lot of new dads don't realise that you can't take your 5-year-old along to see something like 'The Avengers.' Modern superhero films are too violent, and the dialogue is far too convoluted for a child.
Rhys Darby / Actor
Avengers
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When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.
Juliana Hatfield / Musician
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The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.
Richard Neal / U.s. Representative
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A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.
Jeb Bush / Former Governor Of Florida
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Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person's back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.
Shoshannah Stern / Actress
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Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.
Deborah Harkness / Novelist
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I actually work better within restrictions. When you leave everything wide open, things tend to get a little convoluted. So when you give me those restrictions and I start to use my brain creatively to work around those, that's when things get interesting.
Kenny Omega /
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We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
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Everybody gets ticked off about GE paying no taxes. Look, we have a complicated, convoluted tax system. And only big corporations and wealthy individuals like Warren Buffett can take advantage of it. We need to simplify and flatten the code, get rid of all the loopholes.
Joe J. Walsh /
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I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity and human emotion are just so convoluted and overly dramatic and focus on these certain little things that are supposedly meaningful, but just don't really mean anything.
Ellar Coltrane / Actor
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In a long story like 'Weathercraft,' it becomes kind of convoluted. It can become perhaps difficult to remember what led up to whatever point you're at. I worried a little bit about people being able to keep the shape of the story in their heads while they were reading it, and not wonder how they got wherever they were.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
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Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.
Theodore Isaac Rubin / Author
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