Travis Bradberry Quotes

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.

Good or bad is what we tend to want to affix to people, but we're all complicated.

In life, we are all more than one thing, but for some reason in movies, you're either this or that. It reduces the complexity of a human being in so many ways.

Humans are the most complicated, nuanced things that exist. We can't be reduced to labels or summed up with five traits - even if they are the Big Five.

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

I'm definitely stereotyped, and I'm very okay with that.

It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.

Don't classify me, read me.

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

'Divergent' is a story about people who don't fit into a category - that is a big part of the message - but it's also about conformity and forcing people into these simple archetypes. At the end of the day, humans don't exist like that. We're multifaceted.

I don't think any of us like to be reduced to just one label.

You come to realize people are not simple.

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

Humans are complex, and I think in entertainment in general, it's very easy to put people in boxes.

I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.

There are always people who are desperate to put you in your one camp and never let you leave. The idea that you could be interested in the Yazidi community and also in lipstick blows people's minds. It's a really short-sighted, Stone Age attitude; it's boring, actually.

Not everyone is the same. You can't label a person just because of what they do or what they've done.

People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.

I hate to say that not everything is politics, but not everything is politics.

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

There is no accounting for human beings.

Something that works for one person could be a disadvantage to another.