Sophisticated Quotes - Page 12

• If the investors themselves are not sophisticated, if they themselves are not putting a lot of their own money to work, if they themselves don't understand the continuum of capital and how different parts of the capital structures react differently, then they're basically worthless. They're not going to give great advice to these entrepreneurs who then need it. So that is unfortunately the cycle we're in and we have to break the cycle.

  Chamath Palihapitiya

  Giving, Entrepreneur, Advice

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Superficial, Results

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.40, MIT Press

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• I'm inspired by the fragrance because it is feminine and elegant but not too sophisticated. There's something very simple at the bottom of it but it remains mysterious, it's got different facets. Just like the roles that I love to play, it conveys differing degrees of intensity, lightness and depth... I like to be spontaneous and this fragrance is very spontaneous too.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Simple, Different, Mysterious

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Gun control and the specifics of it, like immigration, it's not really about the substance when it comes to RINO Republicans supporting it. It is about appearing sophisticated. It's about appearing superiorly educated, and it's about qualifying for admittance in the club of elites. And you'll never be invited to the right parties, cocktail or otherwise, in Manhattan or Washington or LA or San Francisco or what have you.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Gun, Immigration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 'The Simpsons' basically - and 'Futurama' - are really smart shows. They're kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you're paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.

  Matt Groening

  Smart, Attention, Goofy

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• In the same way, photography, for me, has fragmented. You do have people doing bodies of work - often with found photographs - that are quite hard to understand unless you got a very sophisticated visual history behind you. But there are different camps.

  Stuart Franklin

  Photography, People, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art form, really, at its best. At different times I've tried to push against it as much as I possibly could, but ultimately it is a folk-art form.

  George C. Wolfe

  Writing, Mind, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.

  Benjamin Carson

  Spiritual, Mind, Flesh

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• There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated what it was. They knew it wasn't all going to be great when you improvised, so they were very forgiving that way.

  Steve Carell

  Night, Cities, Forgiving

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• Even happy situations can easily start to feel miserable. So, I think that people who consider themselves sophisticated or who are in fact sophisticated have come to distrust stories that are uplifting or simply stories in which the characters get what they want in the end. Because in life, what you want is never the end.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Uplifting, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.

  Joe Biden

  Issues, Giving, Three

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• I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

  Tony Bennett

  Holiday, Records, Today

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• I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Cowboy, Choices, Watches

  "Shia LaBeouf says he scared 'Lawless' co-star Mia Wasikowska so much, she almost left the film". Interview with Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

  Anne Lamott

  Taste In Music, Reggae, Folks

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• God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Hate, Conceited

  D. H. Lawrence, Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, Elizabeth Mansfield (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.250, Cambridge University Press

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• Sometimes politics is viewed as a boxing match. So, let's look at movies of last year. You know, you prepare for match like creed. Trump is like "Mad Max: Fury Road." We have never seen anything like this in politics. The kind of race he's going to run. I mean, look, he is winning the nomination. He doesn't prepare for debates. He doesn't run advertising. He gets millions of dollars spent against him, it has no effect, he's not running as sophisticated data driven campaign yet he is winning. As each and every day, you just don't know what you're going to get with this guy.

  David Plouffe

  Running, Mean, Winning

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think the camera has got to be motivated. You can't have things arrived at gratuitously. Everything has to have an organic function, but the more comfortable I've become and the more imaginative and sophisticated and the more exploratory I've become at the medium, the more I've subtly deviated away from that in various ways.

  Mike Leigh

  Thinking, Motivated, Imaginative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I did sit in cinemas as a kid looking at English and American movies thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if the characters were like real people?" And the worst thing is films are constantly advertising themselves, drawing attention to their style of things. But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic. But you don't want the audience thinking about the bloody film. You want them to think about what's going on, and believe in it. Be flies on the wall, you know?

  Mike Leigh

  Wall, Real, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I know how to write stories that are accessible to younger readers, and sophisticated enough for older ones. I'm not a big fan of the all ages label, but I keep a wider audience in mind.

  Hope Larson

  Writing, Mind, Age

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• I think it's really cool that videogames are getting more and more sophisticated and believable, and that people who worked on movies are being asked to art direct and design video games and characters, so they look better and better. When I see Jurassic Park on the screen, I predicted that games would be able to create a virtual experience that was just as real as the movies - we're not quite there yet, but it's getting better all the time.

  Mark Walton

  Art, Real, Character

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Maybe if audiences all over the world would check out animation from other countries, filmmakers would be more sophisticated and experimental.

  Mark Walton

  Country, World, Animation

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Donald Trump clearly doesn't have the intellectual capacity to have a concept of what he's doing. I think he has a very strong instinct for using lying to assert power, and that's what he does. Every time he lies, he's saying "I can say whatever I want, whenever I want to, and there's nothing you can do about it." I think he understands that instinctively. He has a finely honed sense for power and manipulation. Bullying is another way to put it. He's a highly skilled bully, but bullying is not a very sophisticated strategy.

  Masha Gessen

  Bullying, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Intelligent, People

  Joyce Meyer (2010). “Hearing from God Each Morning: 365 Daily Devotions”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• The framing of how we relate to each other within and across social media platforms will continue to become more sophisticated and nuanced in their expression of how we structure our relationships in our real world lives.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Real, Media, Expression

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• I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.

  Christian Louboutin

  Hate, Garden, High Heels

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