Sophisticated Quotes - Page 27

• We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly. So primitive and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people and guys walking on water. We're ...sophisticated.'

  Paul Provenza

  Silly, Talking, People

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• We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Memorable, Artist

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

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• I'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive. To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity.

  Hedi Slimane

  Fashion, Men, Thinking

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• With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.

  Ben Bernanke

  Safety, Use, Incentives

  "Hearing Regarding Ben Bernanke's Nomination to Be Chairman of the Board of Goverrnors of the Federal Reserve". U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2005.

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• We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Believe, Home

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

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• In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.

  Frederick Buechner

  Wise, Prayer, Honesty

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• I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.

  Jil Sander

  Self, Kind, Femininity

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• I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying
  ordinance of the most extreme kind

  Milton Friedman

  Self, People, Maintenance

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

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• You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

  Alison Krauss

  Honesty, Soul, Hay

  "Alison Kraus: Back to her roots" by Alfred Hickling, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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