#lex

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#canada #complex #culture #ego #fascinating

Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#away #build #cast #centuries #combined

Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#congress #country #course #difficult #difficult task

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#always #becomes #demands #every #giving

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#express #grail #holy #holy grail #i

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence. ↗

— Alva Noto

#choice #coincidence #complex #decision #decision making

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#day #directed #discovered #fine #fine day

There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful. ↗

— Jim Nussle

#fine #fine line #flexible #line #meaningful

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable. ↗

— Barack Obama

#communicate #complex #hip-hop #insightful #message

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#complex #life #people #personality #politician