Sophisticated Quotes - Page 9

• Sophisticated people invest their money in stock portfolios. Rednecks invest their money in commemorative plates.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, People, Portfolios

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• If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Angel, Men, Experience

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.220, Graphic Arts Books

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• Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Real, Self, America

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• To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Expression, Healthy, Becoming

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.137, University of Chicago Press

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• What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the more we will see. Humans seem to take perverse pleasure in attributing stupidity to animals when it is almost always entirely a question of human ignorance.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Ignorance, Animal, Stupidity

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2010). “The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

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• New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced by the artificiality of their environment.

  Ernest Gruening

  New York, Children, Cities

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• During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.... The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Political, Democracy

  "Manufacturing Consent". Noam Chomsky's Lecture at the University of Wisconsin in in Madison, Wisconsin, March 15, 1989.

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• Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off somehow when you grow up... profound curiosity happens when children are young. I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race... Once you are sophisticated, you know too much- far too much. Pauli once said to me, "I know a great deal. I know too much. I am a quantum ancient.".

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Growing Up, Children, Thinking

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• If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

  Robert Heller

  Business, Action, Needed

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• I'm not really much of a genre guy. I think that audiences don't need that anymore where you just need a very specific genre. Audiences are very sophisticated, and as long as it's fun, it's okay and entertaining.

  Natalie Portman

  Fun, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that. We had some of the most sophisticated sound-creating systems, and were instrumental in MIDI.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Technology, Creating, Sound

  Interview with Steve Boxer, archive.videogamesdaily.com. April 2, 2009.

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• I don't think I ever really decided I was an artist. I went to college to learn how to think and look at art. In the end, I developed a more sophisticated misunderstanding of art.

  Gavin Turk

  Art, College, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'

  Dave Van Ronk

  Thinking, Laughing, Retrospect

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• Apparently modern financial regulators are vastly more sophisticated than we were as financial regulators 25 years ago - because we had never figured out that the key to financial stability was leaving felons in charge of the largest financial institutions in the world.

  William K. Black

  Keys, Years, Leaving

  "Too Big to Jail?". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. October 3, 2014.

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• Versace was and still is about the sophisticated woman who is elegant, not afraid of her own sensuality, and not afraid to dare or take risks in life.

  Nicki Minaj

  Risk, Versace, Sensuality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Emotional, Brain, Wells

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.13, Basic Books

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• I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Smart, Believe, Narrators

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.

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• Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

  John Welch

  Business, Book, Thinking

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• My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics, for statistics, for all the "hard" subjects.... In short, I believe more than ever that programming should be a key part of the intellectual development of people growing up.

  Seymour Papert

  Growing Up, Powerful, Believe

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• Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer . . . commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."

  Scott Adams

  Time, Tea Leaves, Tarot

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• It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Years, Twenties

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolutionarily less sophisticated. They are small and hard, like tiny grains of sand. Our hearts are too small to love more than one person in a lifetime.

  Tink

  Passion, Heart, And Love

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• With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more.

  Paul Lutus

  Technology, Years, Computer

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• Hoffmeier furnishes a sophisticated fresh approach to the Biblical Exodus traditions filled with detailed Egyptological background, and utterly indispensable because of its basis in recent, and in many cases as yet unpublished, archaeological data. This is a virtual encyclopedia of the Exodus.

  Baruch Halpern

  Biblical, Data, Tradition

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• Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and trust to inspire customer loyalty. Chinese brands score low on attributes such as “sophisticated,” “desirable,” “innovative,” “friendly,” and “trustworthy.”

  Nirmalya Kumar

  Loyalty, Emotional, Attachment

  "Can You Name a Chinese Brand?" by Nirmalya Kumar, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2013.

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