Sophisticated Quotes - Page 15

• Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.

  Antonin Scalia

  Christian, Scary, Melting

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• And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Poetry

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

  K'naan

  "K’naan: Straight Outta Mogadishu". Interview with Eamon Kricher-Allen, www.motherjones.com. March 2009.

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• The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.

  Andrew Lo

  Opportunity, United States, Doe

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• I don't consider myself a person of fashion because it's too sophisticated. My thing is I look at style like swagger. I like things that pull me, that I gravitate to.

  Michael K. Williams

  Fashion, Style, Looks

  "Talking With Our Mouths Full: Michael Kenneth Williams". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 4, 2011.

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• A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.

  Ann Landers

  Cancer, Grief, Fire

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• Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by 'sophisticated' methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, College, Rights

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.70, Pantheon

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• Do I believe in ghosts? Of course I do. So do you. Deep in the souls of the most sophisticated of us is lurking a fear of the supernatural which all the discoveries of scientists cannot eradicate.

  Bennett Cerf

  Believe, Discovery, Soul

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• In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship.

  Barbara Holland

  Fashion, Cocktails, Metropolitan

  Barbara Holland (2008). “The Joy of Drinking”, p.135, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I want to reach out and entertain people. I want people to come to a museum that have never been in a museum before. I want also to have enough art references in it that would satisfy the most sophisticated museum goer.

  Wayne White

  Art, Museums, People

  "That's what art really tries to do. Just strip away all the pretense and it's trying to entertain and excite". Interview with Julie Thomson, logger.believermag.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Culture, Music Is

  "Pumpkins Smashing Pumpkins' Chamberlin gives up the road to reinvent live music" by Andy Meek, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2014.

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• I told my daughter that terrorists would love to attack Washington, but we, unlike the French, are an ocean away from Syria, that lots of smart people are working very hard to stop the terrorists, and that these terrorists are not very sophisticated.

  Dana Milbank

  Daughter, Smart, Ocean

  "How to talk to your child about the Islamic State". www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2015.

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• The origin of nursing started out with prostitutes, who would go care for people in jail. That was back when nobody wanted to go to the hospital because it was basically a place that you went to die. It started progressing with the visiting nurses in the South. The women started wearing these outfits to make it look like they were more sophisticated and so that they could be more respected. They started recruiting women from good education backgrounds because they wanted to make it a more respected profession.

  Eve Hewson

  Nursing, Jail, Nurse

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not the most sophisticated person. I'm not the smartest person in the world. But, I know what makes me excited about life, from Spielberg movies to Michael Jackson music videos to cartoons on Saturday mornings, which made my childhood.

  Jon M. Chu

  Morning, Childhood, Cartoon

  Source: collider.com

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• Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it.

  Julian Johnson

  Technology, Squares, Rocks

  Julian Johnson (2011). “Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value”, p.55, Oxford University Press

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• I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know how to play a more sophisticated role than the one that I have played for quite a few years, and that is spending a lot of time with these hard-working scientists in the various fields of expertise that relate to the climate crisis, learning as fully as I can the truths they are discovering, asking them to explain it in language that's simple enough for me to understand and then use that language to convey the essence of it, and then letting the chips fall where they may.

  Al Gore

  Fall, Hard Work, Simple

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. February 17, 2013.

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• The answer is navigation, manipulation, and implementation of more sophisticated intelligence. The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to "go to the kitchen" means something - navigation and understanding of the environment is a robot problem. Those are the technological frontiers of the robotics industry.

  Colin Angle

  Mean, Ideas, Understanding

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside.

  Marlene Zuk

  Beautiful, Mean, Skeletons

  Marlene Zuk (2011). “Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.

  Carl R Trueman

  Taken, Use, Pretentious

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• Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Strategy, Social, Subtle

  Henry Mintzberg (2013). “Strategy Bites Back ePub eBook”, p.74, Pearson UK

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• To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it.

  George Carlin

  Able, Feels, Intoxicated

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• Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Cutting, Technology

  Remarks of Bill Gates, Harvard Commencement, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy.

  John le Carre

  War, Mean, Government

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• Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.

  Jack Nicholson

  Eye, Watches, Film

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• I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.

  Danny Strong

  Thinking, Issues, Race

  Source: deadline.com

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