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I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.
Robert De Niro

Feeling, Another, Honest

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.
Richard Brautigan

Life, Strange, Become

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
Goldie Hawn

Smile, Hearts, Hardest

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
Bono

Person, Made, Christ

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
W. H. Auden

Work, Good, Art

My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.
Rick Perry

Life, Work, Hope

Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.
Catherine Deneuve

Fight, Seem, Inside

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
Kim Il-sung

History, Truth, Struggle

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Charles de Lint

Life, Work, Art

No one doubts the enormity of the social challenges we face around the world but one critical element of our response must be the generation of new thinking and ideas. Yet creating the conditions that make this possible is not simple.
Simon Mainwaring

Thinking, Around, Social

If a brand wants to build social communities, capital and influence, it must become the chief celebrant of its community, not its celebrity. This simple shift in approach unlocks enormous transformative potential for brands.
Simon Mainwaring

Become, Social, Influence

There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?'
Louis C. K.

Hate, Person, Christian

If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
Danica McKellar

Cool, Done, Sure

The greatest power is often simple patience.
E. Joseph Cossman

Power, Patience, Greatest

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.
Leo Burnett

Fun, Read, Memorable

Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.
Mel Brooks

Crazy, Fun, Making

I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.
Rick Perry

Time, Mean, Put

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
Clara Barton

Life, Often, Sure

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

Sometimes, Difficult, Films

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.
Edward James Olmos

Person, Try, Return

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
James Thurber

Truth, Long, Enough

African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.
Herman Cain

Same, Point, Republican

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
Philip Larkin

Children, May, Fact

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
Eddie Van Halen

Music, Nothing, Living

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
Michael Leunig

Love, Happy, Another

It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.
Jonathan Davis

Music, Today, Seems

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
Dag Hammarskjold

Life, Lost, Everything

A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.
Katherine Heigl

Mother, Children, Find

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
Douglas Horton

True, Perfection, Skill

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.
John Desmond Bernal

Sex, Mind, Almost

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