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#sophistication

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There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.


Bill Conti


#aesthetic #composers #higher #i #illusions

Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it.


Cheech Marin


#back #being #border #credit #crossed

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. The boy is walking through the street of his town. He is thinking of the future and of the figure he will cut in the world. Ambitions and regrets awake within him. Suddenly something happens; he stops under a tree and waits as for a voice calling his name. Ghosts of old things creep into his consciousness; the voices outside of himself whisper a message concerning the limitations of life. From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy. With a little gasp he sees himself as merely a leaf blown by the wind through the streets of his village. He knows that in spite of all the stout talk of his fellows he must live and die in uncertainty, a thing blown by the winds, a thing destined like corn to wilt in the sun.


Sherwood Anderson


#future #ghosts #life #manhood #nothingness

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


Don Herold


#else #globe #less #more #new

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


Rand Beers


#crime #dangerous #expansion #millennium #most

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.


Christopher Hampton


#decadence #feeble #i #rather #sophistication

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


#bed #butler #cope #described #formidable

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.


Uma Thurman


#me #options #overwhelms #sophistication #washing

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.


Iain Glen


#class #even #face #her #i

People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.


Bill Watterson


#modern-art #sophistication #superiority #art






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