Sophisticated Quotes

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  The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

  Jim Henson

  Inspirational, Children, People

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.52, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Block, Islamic

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• Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.

  Jim Rohn

  People, Trying

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 09, 2017

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• In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

  O. Henry

  New York, Greatness, Gentleman

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.660, Delphi Classics

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• Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Orange, Seductive, Depth

  "Learning More About Tangerine Tango, Pantone's Color of the Year". PopSugar Interview, www.popsugar.com. December 8, 2011.

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• Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Persistence, Discipline, Common Sense

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

  Haruki Murakami

  Revenge, Form, Spending

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, August 25, 1995.

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• The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.

  Fidel Castro

  Ignorance, Weapons, Poverty

  Fidel Castro's speech at the International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, www.cuba.cu. March 21, 2002.

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• I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.

  Jessie Ware

  Mother, Dresses, Way

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• I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.

  Nathan Seiberg

  Space, Illusion, Certain

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• People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

  Sergey Brin

  People, Trying, Succeed

  "Google Guys". Playboy Interview, kottke.org.

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• One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.

  Antonin Scalia

  Believe, Scary, Matter

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• Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

  Kanye West

  Rap, Writing, Ignorance

  Song: Otis

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• Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Intelligent, Needs, Next

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• It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world
  if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.
  But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a
  world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite
  and world bankers is surely preferable to the national
  auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

  David Rockefeller

  Determination, Past, Light

  "The Powers That Be: America's Dirtiest Secrets". Book by William Caniano, 2007.

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• I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tenticles and get bad results elsewhere.

  Milton Friedman

  Self, People, Evil

  Interview with Richard Heffner on "The Open Mind", December 7, 1975.

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• Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

  Terry Pratchett

  Taxation, Way, Menace

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.

  Aly Raisman

  Princess, Thinking, Style

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• Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

  Bill Joy

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• Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.

  Bette Lord

  Chinese, Religion, Deny

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• A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is

  George Alagiah

  Future, Japan, Earthquakes

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• Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

  Arundhati Roy

  Beautiful, Writing, Fiction

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• I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A when he finds you naked in the bed of boyfriend B? Especially if boyfriend A turned into a monster the night before and ate someone. I bet Miss Manners didn't cover this at all.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sex, Night, Missing

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• Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.

  Connie Nielsen

  Ideas, Pages, Scripts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well.

  Robert E. Cushman, Jr.

  Military, Marine, Men

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