Sophisticated Quotes - Page 19

• I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

  Adam Gopnik

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.

  Judy Davis

  Sexy, Country, Men

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• I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

  Marion Cotillard

  Thinking, Knows

  "Public enemies". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2009.

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• The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

  Roberto Benigni

  Comedy, Divine, Very Popular

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• We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

  Brad Bird

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.

  Andre Benjamin

  Character, Mirrors, Clothes

  "Rapped up in tweed" by Simon Mills, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2008.

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• Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Important

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.47, Crown Archetype

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• The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra. And this is why we have to go to war with Saddam Hussein this minute and bomb the shish kebab out of him before he invents trig and chemistry and the whole of America flunks high school.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, War, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.281, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from God, not because they proceed from common sense or sophisticated reason.

  Israel Shenker

  Humble, Humility, Accepting God

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk?

  Loren Eiseley

  Fire, Order, What If

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• According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.

  Marcel Proust

  Ignorance, Law, Charming

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument. And the emotional faculties are more highly developed in most men than the rational, paradoxically or especially even in those who regard themselves as intellectuals.

  Milton Friedman

  Simple, Men, Emotional

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• There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the Chinese government has created the world's most sophisticated censorship machine.

  John Palfrey

  Government, Long, Chinese

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• The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Peace, War, Soldier

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• Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.

  Willis Harman

  Inspirational, Mind, Vision

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• We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

  Timothy Leary

  Giving, Grandparent, Brain

  "Rolling Stone" Twentieth Anniversary Issue, 1987.

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• The average person can’t really trust anybody. They can’t trust a broker, because the broker is interested in churning commissions. They can’t trust a mutual fund, because the mutual fund is interested in gathering a lot of assets and keeping them. And now it’s even worse because even the most sophisticated people have no idea what’s going on.

  Seth Klarman

  Average, Ideas, People

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• Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Nature’s fearful symmetry just as Nature intended. They should be respected and revered, but perhaps none more so than the elephant, the world’s most emotionally human land mammal.

  Daphne Sheldrick

  Animal, Land, Elephants

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• Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Football, Baseball

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• There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.

  John Redwood

  Should Have, Design, Risk

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• The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Summer, Winter, White

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• My mom was always a fan of just really elegant, sophisticated pieces. I mean we grew up in Maine, so we didn't have a lot of call for black tie or anything, but I think I definitely got that sensibility from her.

  Anna Kendrick

  Mom, Mean, Thinking

  "Q&A: Anna Kendrick on modeling, movies and music". Interview with Nicole Evatt, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. October 24, 2014.

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• It's shocking how sophisticated little kids can be, when it comes to behaving in a professional manner, and that's a credit to their parents.

  Sean Astin

  Kids, Parent, Credit

  "Sean Astin Talks MOM'S NIGHT OUT, Being in a Good, Clean Comedy, Guillermo del Toro's THE STRAIN, Being Game for a GOONIES Sequel, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2014.

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• Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good.

  Jose Padilha

  People, Watches, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• Nuclear proliferation is on the rise. Equipment, material and training were once largely inaccessible. Today, however, there is a sophisticated worldwide network that can deliver systems for producing material usable in weapons.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Training, Nuclear, Weapons

  "Saving Ourselves From Self-Destruction". www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2004.

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