#sophisticated

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

— Terry Pratchett

#just #menaces #money #sophisticated #taxation

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#conceptual #exists #however #i #modern

Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated. ↗

— Gideon Raff

#both #country #israel #small #sophisticated

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. ↗

— Warren Weaver

#getting #ignorance #keep #more #more and more

The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it. ↗

— Joe Biden

#answers #complicated #credit #give #going

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated. ↗

— Brad Bird

#audiences #complicated #doomed #films #hope

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#hard #hard rock #i #love #moved

Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#balance #community #country #developed #elements

'The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative. ↗

— Jane Campion

#adult #attempted #big #complex #easily

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#being #cartoon #dark #decent #decent people