Sophisticated quotes
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.
-- Alan Furst -
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
-- Ann Brashares -
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
-- Anne Lamott -
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
-- Bill Joy -
As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor
-- Brendan Fraser -
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I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.
-- Brian P. Cleary -
Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves
-- Bruce Lee -
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
-- Carla Bley -
I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.
-- Cary Grant -
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Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.
-- Denise Mina -
Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.
-- Dianne Wiest -
Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.
-- Dominick Dunne -
Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart.
-- Don Bluth -
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There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog.
-- Donald McCaig -
In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.
-- Eartha Kitt -
The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.
-- Gaspard Ulliel -
We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.
-- George Brandis -
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You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.
-- Gianni Versace -
Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.
-- Gideon Raff -
If you take a sophisticated idea, reduce it to the simplest possible terms so that it’s accessible to everybody, and don’t get simple mixed up with simplistic, it’s how you mount and present something that makes it engaging.
-- Gordon Willis -
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
-- Hans Hofmann -
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Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.
-- Haruki Murakami -
I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.
-- Hugh Hefner -
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
-- Jane Goodall -
My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky.
-- Jason Wu -
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The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.
-- Jennifer Stone -
I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.
-- Jil Sander -
Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.
-- Jim Rohn -
Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
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William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.
-- Kenneth Tynan -
Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.
-- Lance Armstrong -
I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.
-- Linda Hunt -
Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.
-- M. F. K. Fisher -
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We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.
-- Margaret Spellings -
I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.
-- Marion Cotillard -
If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.
-- Maureen Dowd -
But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
-- Mike Leigh -
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You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.
-- Miuccia Prada -
I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.
-- Nathan Seiberg -
I tend to dress a little more sophisticated than most women do.
-- Nicole Richie -
I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.
-- Norma Shearer -
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When you are making a decision about how best to serve your customers, your own experience is often a better guide than a more sophisticated analysis of the market.
-- Richard Branson -
Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.
-- Richard Eder -
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
-- Robert Doisneau -
However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.
-- Robert Fripp -
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The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.
-- Roberto Benigni -
I don't think there is any coach more sophisticated than me any more.
-- Sam Allardyce -
I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers.
-- Sheridan Smith -
Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
-- Simon Van Booy -
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
-- Sophia Loren -
Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.
-- Stella Benson -
The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
-- Stephen Ambrose -
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
-- Terry Pratchett -
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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 -
Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
-- K'naan -
Maybe if audiences all over the world would check out animation from other countries, filmmakers would be more sophisticated and experimental.
-- Mark Walton -
Being called a sophisticated snake oil salesman was a low point in my personal career.
-- Martin Gilbert -
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His home life is as ordered and complex and sophisticated as his work life. You don't find creations like this anymore. The Leopard comes to mind - this tale of a glorious, lost Italy. That's Valentino.
-- Matt Tyrnauer -
The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life.
-- Oliver D. Crisp -
Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.
-- Bette Lord -
If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.
-- Robert Heller -
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The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked was Paul McCartney.
-- Freedy Johnston
