Quotes: Sophistication

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Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one’s poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed – but never the husband).

James Thurber

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci

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In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator’s separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

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The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

David Byrne

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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

Rand Beers

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When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn’t find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That’s when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

Vera Wang

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The spirit’s foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

George Santayana

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Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

Bill Budge

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Don Herold

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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.

David Zucker

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