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The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
Georg Simmel
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
Manuel Puig
There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
Ben Carson
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
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Fashion is not frivolous.


Donatella Versace
Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
Nancy Kress
In ice dancing, you cannot decide your result. You just have to do your best, and you can't decide if you win or not.
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Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public.


Linda Ronstadt
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I am a deeply superficial person.


Andy Warhol
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Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.
Kevin Kelly
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TV likes you to talk about the superficial.


Donna Brazile
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It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.
Dave Matthews
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Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it.
Kelly Ayotte
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In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.


Eartha Kitt
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don't think makes for good literature.
Junot Diaz
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.


William S. Burroughs
How can educated and sophisticated viewers react so differently to a work of art? Is it just Kulture Klash? No, since most of the time there's no Klash at all. On the occasions when we disagree, it may be because we're looking for different things in dance.
Robert Gottlieb
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To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.


Heather Mills
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Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.


Terry Pratchett
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