Sheridan Smith
Actress
"I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers."
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Sophisticated
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Cary Grant
Actor
"I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts."
Gordon Willis
Cinematographer
"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."
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day."
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity."
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"The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged."
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"What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language."
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"Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces."
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"Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge."
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"Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself."
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"I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae."
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"Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods."
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"It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window."
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"To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it."
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"My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers."
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"If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it."
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"She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!"
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"According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love."
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"Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match."
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"The Israeli army had the most sophisticated weaponry and they used it against residential towers, schools and hospitals."
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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."
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"The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated."
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"Being called a sophisticated snake oil salesman was a low point in my personal career."
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