Sophisticated Quotes - Page 6

• Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

  Arthur Miller

  Humanity, Theatre, Crafts

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• Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.

  Robert Fisk

  America, Bin Laden, Wells

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

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• I think it's probably, musically, probably the most sophisticated. ("The Woman in White") There's a lot more daring harmony in it than in some of my pieces... If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask, isn't it?... Sondheim is absolutely wonderful and Alan Jay Lerner was wonderful.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Successful, Thinking, White

  Interview with Paul Fischer, www.moviehole.net. December 20, 2004.

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• Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently controlled vehicles whose origin is outside our solar system. All the arguments against the extraterrestrial origin seem to be based upon false reasoning, misrepresentation of evidence, neglect of relevant information, ignorance of relevant technology, or pseudo sophisticated assumptions about alien appearance, motivation, or government secrecy...

  Stanton T. Friedman

  Motivation, Ignorance, Technology

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• When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder ... that's a real document. You see, art is really useless, and a document has use. And therefore, art is never a document, but it can adopt that style. I do it. I'm called a documentary photographer. But that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Art, Real

  Jeff Rosenheim, Walker Evans, Jane Ninas, Historic New Orleans Collection (1991). “Walker Evans and Jane Ninas in New Orleans, 1935-1936”, Historic New Orleans

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• I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Clever, Ambition, Simple

  "Fears of a clown". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2003.

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• The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Funny, Dark, People

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

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• Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.

  Camryn Manheim

  Beauty, Fall, Men

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• Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Indulge In, Unnecessary

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• As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

  Brendan Fraser

  Technology, Actors

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

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• My personal style is kind of sophisticated edgy, I guess. I wear a lot of black and it's what I feel comfortable in.

  Demi Lovato

  Black, Style, Kind

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• Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.

  Dianne Wiest

  Intelligent, People, Young

  "Dianne Wiest at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival". Interview with Leslie Rigoulot, www.filmscouts.com. January 20, 1996.

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• So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

  Alton Brown

  Hands, Honey, Bees

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• Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of Jewish mysticism, but of the exquisite complexities of Jewish history and tradition, Major Trends is a major port of entry through which one must pass.

  Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

  Understanding, Trends, Dynamics

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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

  Weapons, Defeated, Superpower

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog.

  Donald McCaig

  Dog, Calm, Leashes

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• I mean, I understand that because they're disadvantaged that they deserve their own parking spots, but do they have to make them so wide? I never understood how these people were allowed to drive cars but they get these really neat chairs with wheels and they're still not happy, so instead of parking their wheelchairs in the designated spots, they upstage us normal people and get the best parking spots with vehicles that are clearly too sophisticated for them to be handling. Still, you should smile at a cripple, because it's the only bit of happiness they'll ever have.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, People, Car

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• The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.

  David Cameron

  Ideas, Generations, World

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• The EU Kids Online project is the most theoretically informed and methodologically sophisticated study we have on the issue of risks in the new electronic environment. This book is rich in details and insights that greatly advance our understanding.

  David Finkelhor

  Book, Kids, Issues

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• No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Moving, Heart

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.446, Best Books on

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• Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the sophisticated deplore these formalities as 'empty,' 'meaningless,' or 'dishonest,' and scorn to use them. No matter how 'pure' their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moving, People, Together

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• These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Book

  "Boxing: Tyson's complicated world". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2002.

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• I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

  Alan Furst

  Writing, People, Novel

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• A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.

  Leonardo Sciascia

  Regret, Nice, Stupidity

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• I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our day we had individuality. Pictures were more sophisticated. All this nudity is too excessive and it is getting very boring. It will be a shame if it upsets people so much that it brings on the need for censorship. I hate censorship. In the cinema there's no mystery. No privacy. And no sex, either. Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.

  Myrna Loy

  Sex, Hate, Expression

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

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