Quotes of: Complex-system Keyword

Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in which you submit films, and if they are good enough, they play. The only barrier to entry is the submission fee.

Jason Reitman

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.

Raf Simons

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

1984

No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.

Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror.

America And The Young Intellectual

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

I Need More

The weakest would be put out of service rather than be allowed to compromise the whole system.

Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions of other men.

Ragtime

An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.

The Rainy Season

The Jewish day begins in the calm of evening, when it won't shock the system with its arrival.

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Source truth exists in greater abundance outside of the symbolic system of words.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Folks fall down all the time.. The key is to get back up ASAP

The Magnificent Weight Loss System

The field of financial innovation, without rules that tie it to human productive output will be the cause of the next revolution.

Memenomics: The Next Generation Economic System

They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Like capitalism,” Carl suggested. “‘We’ll give you so much pleasure, you’ll never want to try another socioeconomic system.

Necessary Errors

You are...the embodiment of immediate good karma. The equalizer between bottom feeders and the sanctimonious cogs in the system.

No Return Address: A collection of poems

There is no such thing as isolated stress. Stress is always system wide.

Nurturing Wellness Through Radical Self-Care: A Living in Balance Guide and Workbook

We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.

Orange Is the New Black

Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.

Life: An Exploded Diagram