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“Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.”

Prayer Attitude Talent New York Variety Elsewhere Minimum Requirements New Yorkers Sophistication

Book:Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“Your true cosmopolitan is born, not made. He is very rare.”

Made Born Sophistication

Author:Louise Jordan Miln

“the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.”

Rewards Appetite Unfortunate Sophistication Worldliness Unfortunate Things

Author:Phyllis Bottome

“For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.”

Men Has Beens Seems Interest Results Members Tradition Traditional Restless Modernity Sophistication

Author:George W. S. Trow

“There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.”

Certain Understanding Levels News Folks Foxes Sophistication Fox News

Author:David Shuster

“The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.”

People Young Technology Wonderful Modern Benefits Extremes Engaging Basics Sophistication Impediments Modern Technology Speech Impediment

Author:Martin Rees

“The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It throws new and interesting people in one's path. There is a dynamic and an energy in cities which is diametric to the life-forces of the forest. Still the cabin is the wellspring, the source, the hub of my existence. It gives me tranquility, a closeness of nature and wildlife, good health and fitness, a sense of security, the opportunity for resourcefulness, reflection and creative thinking.”

“Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.”

Ifs Knows Lying Culture Emotional Pops Credit Smell Teenager Being Yourself Pop Culture Sophistication Millennials Don't Lie

Author:John Green

“I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.”

Sin Shock Sinner Sophistication

Author:Charlie Chaplin

“Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.”

People Ifs Ideas Country Philosophy Home Young Natural My Own Quality Opinion Prejudice Intelligent Philosophical China Chinese Creeds Sophistication Homesick Naivete

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.”

Mean Made Stories Hands Streets Hollywood Glasses Definitions Albums Cards Posts Dirty Flats Substitutes Towers Champagne Sophistication Obscene Ivory Obscenity

Author:Dorothy Parker

“Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,--the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.”

People Knows Ideas Action Results Taste Observation Bigotry Spheres Modesty Shocked Conservatism Sophistication Thoughts And Actions Latitude Travel Experience

Book:Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)

“The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.”

Men Said Europe Rounds Polish Impart Cultivation Sophistication

Author:M. E. W. Sherwood

“Custom developed digital weapons, cyber weapons nowadays typically chain together a number of zero-day exploits that are targeted against the specific site, the specific target that they want to hit. But it depends, this level of sophistication, on the budget and the quality of the actor who's instigating the attack. If it's a country that's less poor or less sophisticated, it'll be a less sophisticated attack.”

Ifs Want Country Together Actors Poor Levels Numbers Quality Depends Weapons Chains Budgets Digital Target Customs Zero Sophisticated Site Exploits Sophistication Cyber

Author:Edward Snowden

“Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.”

Knows Change Score Powerless Sophistication

Author:Mason Cooley

“Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.”

Innocent Sophistication Vulgarity Vulgarity Is

Author:Mason Cooley

“My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.”

Stills Funny Strange Creatures Height Mum Sophistication Pickles Toothpicks

Author:Renee Zellweger

“The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?”

World Hard Speak Dark Profound Obvious Fallen Cracks Cynicism Sophistication Fallen World

Author:Ann Voskamp

“I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production has been solved. This illusion, I suggested, is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which is has been erected. To use the language of the economist, it lives on irreplaceable capital which it cheerfully treats as income.”

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.”

“Every age probably regards itself as unique in its sexual sophistication, and if we take Ovid as a typical spokesman we should have to conclude that the keynote of his age was elegance. . . . Ovid could not possibly have taken himself, nor be taken for, an Ancient.”

Ifs Should Age Taken Unique Should Have Regard Ancient Typical Elegance Sophistication

Author:Rolfe Humphries

“The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.”

Mean Government Ultimate Sophistication Subversion Unlawful

Book:Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991

Source: Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991

“I don't want to rescind American directors but I think that European directors in general, because of the size of the nations in Europe are exposed to all different cultures, they can easily travel from one distinct culture to another in a matter of hours - you can drive for two weeks across the United States and you're in the same basic culture - so there is a certain breadth of understanding and sophistication that they bring to it and frankly, in some cases they are less expensive than American directors.”

“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.”

People Knows Inspirational Children Innocence Sophisticated Sophistication Inner Child Puppeteer

Book:Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

Source: Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.”

Home Rooms Gone Alcohol Drawing Faculty Magnificent Alcoholism Sophistication Departed

Author:James Thurber

“I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.”

People Thinking Has Beens Time Three Actors Easy Audience Successful Concepts Increase Theater Being Successful Quarters Sophistication

Author:David Zucker

“The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which it was still, just barely, possible to believe in mermaids and unicorns - these remarkable traits so characterized the British 18th century”

“I love every aspect of the show. I've been very involved. It was important for me to be very involved in, you know, all of the creative elements. And so, you know, it - David, you know, being brought onto the show, you know, that - I always just wanted to make sure that we maintained the sophistication and intelligence of (the) - and the comedy that we were able to establish in the mini-series.”

Knows Important Shows Able Wanted Creative Comedy Involved Elements Aspect Series Sophistication

Author:Debra Messing

“The U.S. has in its stockpiles more nuclear bombs, chemical and biological weapons, more aircraft, rockets and delivery systems in number and sophistication than the rest of the world combined. Included are twenty commissioned Trident II nuclear submarines any one of which could destroy Europe.”

World Numbers Weapons Europe Twenties Nuclear Bombs Chemicals Rockets Delivery Sophistication Aircraft Nuclear Bomb Submarines Biological Weapons

Author:Ramsey Clark

“It's more like there are some really obvious things that are different and then lots and lots of smaller things, lots of things about who lives and who dies, civilizations that rose and fell, all the way down to individual characters. That becomes the state of where you left your galaxy. The endings have a lot more sophistication and variety in them.”

Way Different States Character Dies Individual Left Civilization Rose Obvious Variety Galaxy Sophistication Obvious Things

Author:Casey Hudson

“There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed up in mother's castoffs and glamour is a certain sophistication, a certain other-worldliness, a certain unattainableness, which I think we certainly calculate. We believe that a band should be slightly larger than life - you should be transported to an alternate reality. I'm giving you some really good answers here, I'm very proud of myself.”

“As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.”

Thinking Stills Animal Emotional Lovers Occasions Meat Cows Sheep Pigs Animal Love Sophistication Think Twice Animal Lover

Author:Bryan Fuller

“I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights. In high school, when the future lawyers were campaigning for class president, the future cartoonists were painstakingly altering illustrations in their history books so that Robert E. Lee appeared to be performing an illegal act with his horse.”

“Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.”

Looks Littles Kids Originals Plant Chemistry Little Kid Sophistication Chemist Monsanto

Author:Allen Lacy

“Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.”

World Self Style Particular Source Balance Discipline Flow Breaths Simplicity Flight Reasonable Composer Sensibility Self Discipline Spontaneity Provinces Refinement Sophistication

Author:Aaron Copland

“The polishedness and the sophistication were what I was interested in. I mean, give me a polka dot, a floral print, a pleated dress, a big fur coat, that was always my language, and it wasn't very "in" when I was starting out, so I had a difficult time in the beginning.”

Giving Mean Bigs Language Difficult Give Me Dresses Starting Print Coats Difficult Times Fur Dots Sophistication Starting Out Fur Coats Polka Polka Dots

Author:Jason Wu

“One of the things that I always think about is the emotional sophistication of animals and how much we're learning about the emotional sophistication of animals. If you're eating a pig, you're essentially eating the equivalent of a four-year-old human being.”

Ifs Thinking Years Humans Human Beings Animal Four Emotional Eating Four Years Pigs Sophistication

Author:Bryan Fuller

“With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.”

Humans Hands Brain Cameras Remains Devices Sophistication Coarse Human Hands

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle, wry-mouthed, or back-handed. It is by turns bitter, agonized, and grotesque. Even in the hands of white composers it involuntarily reflects the half-forgotten suffering of the negro. Jazz has both white and black elements, and each in some respects has influenced the other. It's recent phase seems to throw the light of the white race's sophistication upon the anguish of the black.”

Enough Hands Light Seems Suffering Turns Black White Race Half Laughing Rich Dog Elements Jazz Forgotten Obvious Bitter Subtle Composer Phases Anguish Grotesque Sophistication Wry White Race

Author:Bix Beiderbecke

“Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.”

Writing Reason Play Interesting Heard Musical Excited Fountain Chords Sophistication Tuning Some Interesting

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Non-Islamic, non-foreign-motivated terrorist actions have killed at least as many Americans on American soil as those who were promoted by jihadists. But what we have also seen is ISIL evolve, because of the sophistication of their social media, to a point where they may be inspiring more attacks - even if they're self-initiated, even if they don't involve complex planning - than we would have seen some time ago.”

Ifs May Self Action Social Media Complexes Social Media Terrorist Planning Evolve Soil Islamic Motivated Sophistication Isil

Author:Barack Obama

“If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Stories Levels Plans Marketing This Day Typical True Story Sophistication Distributors Marketing Plans Herbalife

Author:Bill Ackman

“After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of hip-hop, sold as a commodity and package with sensational race, sex and violent imagery, and the hip-hop culture that kids are living everyday at a local level, which often doesn't dabble in that terrain.”

“I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt because I understand the patterns of nineteenth-century jihad in West Africa that I was definitely going to be more advanced than they were in comprehending what the militant rallying cry was.”

“For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.”

Mean Language Term Attention Fiction Paid Experimentation Sophistication

Author:Karen Russell

“What I argue is that talk of knowledge plays an important role in theories within cognitive ethology. The idea is this. First, one sees cognitive ethologists arguing that we need to attribute propositional attitudes to some animals in order to explain the sophistication of their cognitive achievements.”

Needs Firsts Important Ideas Play Order Animal Attitude Roles Theory Achievement Arguing Attributes Cognitive Sophistication

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“Talk of belief in these animals is not some kind of anthropomorphism. We simply cannot explain the kinds of problem solving and behavioral sophistication some species exhibit without supposing that they have genuine beliefs. But once these ethologists finish making the case for animal belief, they quickly move to talk of animal knowledge as well. What I argue is that this is not a mere façon de parler.”

Wells Kind Problem Moving Belief Animal Cases Mere Species Arguing Genuine Problem Solving Exhibits Sophistication Supposing Supposing That Anthropomorphism

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“I think as technology and expertise makes possible these sort of amazing levels of fidelity to the real world, a lot of people sort of get sort of - what's the word I'm looking for - seduced into that. And after a time, they get tired of it and they become a little bit more interested, I think at a certain level of subtraction and a new level of sophistication.”

People Thinking World Littles Real Certain Bits Levels Technology Little Bit Tired Real World Expertise Fidelity Sophistication Subtraction

Author:Khoi Vinh

“I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.”

Ifs Feels Looks Enough Brain Structure Had Enough Sophistication Deeply In Love

Author:Andrew Solomon

“Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"? No.”

Knows Trying Children Break Darkness Sun Type Moon Shadow Wit Silver Bob Blades Dylan Noon Spoons Balloons Lyrical Eclipse Sophistication Popular Music Handmade Silver Spoons

Author:Bob Dylan

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