As for politics, Iβm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Canβt stand caged animals. People must be free.
Charlie ChaplinRead
Simplicity is not a simple thing.
Interpretation
Simplicity may seem easy but it is often quite complex to achieve.
Charlie Chaplin's quote highlights the paradox of simplicity, suggesting that while it appears straightforward, achieving true simplicity requires effort, thought, and depth. It encourages us to understand that what seems simple on the surface is often the result of a long process of refinement and clarity.
In practice
In a speech about design, one might say, 'As Charlie Chaplin said, simplicity is not a simple thing.'
As for politics, Iβm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Canβt stand caged animals. People must be free.
By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.
You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.'You must excuse his dirty face,' said the nurse.Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: 'With all thy dirt I love thee still.
If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.
Everything I desire is within me.
A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite
God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.
Things always become obvious after the fact
Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way.
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