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Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bogeymen, responsible for problems that have myriad causes. Not all government workers receive generous pensions, they note.
Charles Duhigg / Writer
Causes
Defense
Employee
Generous
Government Workers
Workers
Politicians
Myriad
Note
Pensions
Receive
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In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.
Linda Vester / Tv Personality
Faith
Challenges
Mind
Rational
Allowed
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
William Golding / Novelist
Bores
Ideas
Our World
Three
Thrust
Violence
Western
Western World
Anarchic
Crashing
Darwin
Escape
Freud
Marx
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I didn't read a lot of comic books. But I was into 'Dandy and The Beano,' which were like a weekly pulp fiction that featured characters like Desperate Dan, Dennis the Menace, and Billy Whizz - pretty simplistic stuff but very entertaining.
Robert Sheehan /
Desperate
Entertaining
Menace
Pulp
Billy
Comic Books
Dan
Featured
Pulp Fiction
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Weekly
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Telling my grandchildren stories of my growing up is some of our favorite times spent together. They want to know what it was like and what I did as a child. They seem to be especially interested in the organic and simplistic setting I grew up in.
Lidia Bastianich / Chef
Grandchildren
Setting
Organic
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I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Better Off
Dislike
Frightened
Impression
Obligation
Dealt
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I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary.
Xavier Dolan / Actor
Disrespect
Flamboyant
Mommy
Onscreen
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I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.
Michael Haneke / Film Director
Psychology
Author
Explain
In Other Words
Retreats
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Viewer
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There are versions of the pro-gay and anti-gay agenda that assume a simplistic rather than simple understanding of the issue - at least from a biblical perspective. Reject it or embrace it: that's the easy choice that makes for great sound-bites but ruins lives.
Michael Horton / Professor
Bible
Embrace
Perspective
Ruins
Versions
Assume
Reject
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
Bjork / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Color
Writing
Visual
Quite
Music Myself Look
Chat
Colors
Often
Images
Later
Lyrics
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Sit
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His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan was surrounded by some very smart people who gave him very sound advice. They were not wondering where certain countries are on the map.
Eugene Jarecki / Author
Advice
Candor
Depth
Misguided
Party
Pragmatism
Smart
Smart People
Sound
Tea Party
Track
Track Record
Countries
Gave
Record
Map
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Wondering
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On 'Queer Eye' I come in with what I know, and I try to parlay that into lessons for our 'heroes.' But that's really listening to what they need. Sometimes it's a little more ambitious. Sometimes it's very simplistic. But it's got to be something that's condensed into a short amount of time.
Antoni Porowski /
Lessons
Heroes
Condensed
Time Sometimes Know
Queer
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Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I'm a bit of a throwback to the days of black and white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic - they gave rise to a type of anti-hero that maybe I suit better.
Michael Madsen / Actor
Movies
Black
Black And White
Born
Certain
Screenplays
Throwback
Type
White
Rise
Bit
Days
Wrong
Era
Gave
Guys
Maybe
Plots
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Together, the western elites and Gaddafi helped to lead us into a simplistic two-dimensional vision of the world - full of exaggerations and falsehoods. A fake bubble of certainty that has imprisoned us in the West - and is now preventing us from understanding what is really going on in the world outside.
Adam Curtis /
Certainty
Elites
Fake
Gaddafi
Preventing
Understanding
Vision
West
Bubble
Full
Falsehoods
Lead
Helped
Imprisoned
Two-Dimensional
Outside
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Whenever I hear someone describe something as a 'kids movie' or a 'family movie,' it immediately has a negative connotation in my mind because I think, 'Well, as an adult, I wouldn't go see it by myself, because it's purely for children and it holds nothing for me and it's simplistic and it's kind of easy.'
Steve Carell / Actor
Kids
Children
Connotation
Thinking
Describe
Holds
Immediately
Purely
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The glib, facile, simplistic, and prefabricated language by which we as consumers are constantly surrounded is a language that flatters us, that urges us to indulge ourselves, to get away from it all, to be unique by opting in, talking back, liking us on Facebook, leaving a review, sharing, retweeting, etc.
Tracy K. Smith / Poet
Etc
Indulge
Urges
Facile
Flatters
Liking
Review
Sharing
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Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge 'facts' 'everybody' knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves.
Ken Liu / Fiction Writer
Articles
Facts
Heritage
Historical
Wikipedia
Be True
Presented
Received
Selves
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Worlds
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
Camille Paglia / Teacher
Girl
Marriage
Home
Ambitious
Discussion
Duality
Economics
Motherhood
Return
Considered
Classes
Option
Shop
Primary
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Wood
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I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man... there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain.
Edward Zwick / Filmmaker
Boogie
Headlines
Horrible
Scapegoat
Tradition
Villain
Villainy
Action Movies
Movies Always Man
Repeat
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A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.
Gary Larson / Cartoonist
Beautiful
Categories
Interconnectedness
Long
Long Time
Long Time Ago
Roles
Thinking
Ugly
Unimportant
Life Time Nature
Aware
Forms
Life Nature Time
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Leads
Life Forms
Lump
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Bureaucrats want you to think that the system is too complex because they want you to be stupid about it and uninterested in it. They work very hard to create as many levels as possible away from the simplistic government our Founding Fathers formed for one simple reason: they don't want you to know what they are doing.
Dana Loesch /
Bureaucrats
Founding
Levels
Uninterested
Fathers
Formed
Founding Fathers
Many Levels
Simple Reason
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The way football has evolved in some of the bigger leagues in the world, you'd have to say there has become a bigger distance between the contact that you have, for everybody really. It's quite refreshing actually to experience something as simplistic as enjoying winning a game, and the players and the fans being together.
Nigel Pearson /
Contact
Distance
Refreshing
Enjoying
Leagues
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I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.
Alan J. Pakula / Film Director
Communication
Giving
Levels
Thinking
Nature Work I Am
Finally
Terribly
Many Levels
Oblique
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Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me.
Stuart Rose / Businessman
Long Time Ago
Mum
Prove
Time Hope Myself
End Of The Day
Hope Time Myself
Herself
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Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.
Jon Meacham / Editor
Bible
Bliss
Eternal
Fire
Heart
Imagery
Mysterious
Reality
Scripture
Simple
Allegorical
Complex
Hearts
Literally
Product
Realities
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Overly simplistic suggestions that we ban people from entering this country, based on religion, or ban people from an entire region of the world is counterproductive. It will not work. We need to build bridges to communities, to American-Muslim communities right now, to encourage them to help us in our homeland security efforts.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Bridges
Counterproductive
Entering
Homeland
Homeland Security
Suggestions
Ban
Communities
Efforts
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Region
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I think the B-52's were a huge influence on Sleater-Kinney. The way that there'd be a really interesting guitar line that'd be really melodic and kind of simplistic, I really related to that. The sense of melody is really intense and fun. It's not just traditional song structures, but it's very melodic and draws you in, in kind of an immediate way.
Corin Tucker /
Draws
Intense
Related
Huge Influence
Immediate
Melodic
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Structures
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