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• It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.

  Dav Pilkey

  Hate, Reading, Book

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

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• Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

  Andrew Weil

  Hurt, Real, Technology

  "What’s Wrong With American Medicine?" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2009.

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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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• 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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• When I started in television, it was brand new. It was the miracle over in the corner of your room. Now the audience has seen every story line. People have heard every joke. They can predict the plot almost before a show starts. That's a hard, sophisticated audience to reach.

  Betty White

  People, Miracle, Rooms

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• Wearable devices are here to stay, and they'll only get more sophisticated and effective as they evolve. Until now, most of us have made our health and fitness decisions based on what we think we know about ourselves. Advancements in technology - wearables and otherwise - will eventually take much of the guess work out of healthy living.

  Michael Dell

  Technology, Thinking, Work Out

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

  Billy Higgins

  Needs, Tvs, Helping

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• And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

  Jane Goodall

  Noble, Way, Rise Above

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• There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

  Leonard Cohen

  Houston, Singers, Might

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• People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.

  Francisco Costa

  Beach, Museums, People

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• I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

  Edgar Winter

  Kings, Blue, People

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• This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of todays elected officials.

  Michael Musto

  Commitment, Knowing, Elude You

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• Designing for me is a very complex process. There are many ideas that I want to express in one object, very often contradictory. The creative process in Miu Miu is completely different from that of Prada. Miu Miu is not as complicated and thought out as Prada. Rather than being young, Miu Miu is immediate Prada is very sophisticated and considered; Miu Miu is much more naive. The solution, when I am working on Miu Miu, has to come immediately, instinctively, spontaneously with whatever is available at the moment. If I think three times, I stop.

  Miuccia Prada

  Thinking, Ideas, Design

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• Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read.

  Maria Semple

  Book, Rude, Might

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• When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Writing, School, Language

  "The Exchange: Daniel Alarcón" by Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, People, Wish

  "Faith and Reason" Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep principles of physics, and say that in that sense I believe in God. The reaction is, "Oh, this great physicist believes in God - that means I'm free to believe in the trinity and in the crucifixion and in the reincarnation of Christ" - and all that stuff, which of course has nothing whatever to do with the fundamental constants of physics, which is what these physicists are talking about.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Mean, Talking

  "Faith and Reason" Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• Being called a sophisticated snake oil salesman was a low point in my personal career.

  Martin Gilbert

  Salesman

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• No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.

  Kate Reardon

  Class, Rose, Proud

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• Luxury is obviously the direction that interests me the most, but there is a lot of confusion between luxury and exhibitionism. For me, the concept of luxury is more traditional, more exclusive, more sophisticated than luxury for the masses.

  Giorgio Armani

  Luxury, Confusion, Exhibitionism

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• I think the American people are sophisticated enough and wise enough to make judgments about the candidates and wade through the charges and countercharges that come with the [election 2004] campaign.

  Colin Powell

  Wise, Thinking, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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