Intelligent Quotes - Page 11

• I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they're not. They're not out there waiting. They're not gonna use their intelligence on your book.

  Barry Hannah

  Book, Writing, Waiting

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Dogs are intelligent beings; they are not human beings. The life of a dog - there's no equivalency with the life of a person, and if you are putting a dog in the line of danger to save human life, and they can do the job reasonably well, I mean, seriously, what about dignity and self-respect? I feel like going out to dinner, I think I will have my cocker spaniel host the show tonight.

  Tucker Carlson

  Dog, Jobs, Mean

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 7, 2005.

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• You've a very important, early decision to make in your life: are you going to be alone, or are you going to be with somebody else? Are you going to be sane, or not lonely? A couple is a strange thing; it's an organism that's half as intelligent as the most intelligent member. And you both know who it is!

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Lonely, Couple

  "Dylan Moran: What It Is". Video, 2009.

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• Michelle Obama is going to be an amazing First Lady: She's intelligent, capable and motivated. She just embodies everything that an American woman should represent.

  Eva Longoria

  Firsts, Motivated, Should

  "Eva Longoria Parker Shows Her Sexy Side". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. December 28, 2008.

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• Intelligent transportation technology is key to better parking management. The adage that "You can't manage what you can't measure" fits parking perfectly.

  Donald Shoup

  Technology, Keys, Management

  Source: translib.blogspot.com

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• You ask me about my ex-wife? That is not polite. But I will answer. I got another wife now. Much younger, much nicer, much prettier. And so much more intelligent than Benetton.'

  Oliviero Toscani

  Wife, Answers, Polite

  Source: valuet.wordpress.com

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• I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

  Raj Thackeray

  Violence, Language, British

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• If you are an intelligent human being then you are interested in climate change because it's the most important issue of our time.

  Franny Armstrong

  Issues, Important, Climate

  Source: www.lidf.co.uk

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• Indian men are still used to the traditional role given to women; they want intelligent girls for company but not to marry... they have yet to taste and relish the company of mature women.

  Amrita Pritam

  Motivational, Girl, Men

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• Don LaFontaine was very intelligent. He used to say to me, "Always save your money, son". And I said, "Can I start doing voiceovers?" And he said, "You can, Pablo. You can. Don't worry, we'll talk about that later."

  Pablo Francisco

  Son, Worry, Used

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• I like girls that are down to earth, intelligent, and don't try to be anything that they're not. One thing that I fall for all the time is girls with blue eyes and brown hair. There's something about that combination that I find really sexy. It's all in the eyes...and the personality, but that's obvious.

  Devon Bostick

  Girl, Sexy, Fall

  Source: preview.cosmogirl.com

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• The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more "intelligent" than any other creature. I have had long and fruitful relationshis with many nonhuman animals, both domesticated and wild, and have reveled in the bouquet of radically different intelligences - different forms, not different "quantities" that they have introduced to me, each in his or her own time, in his or her own way.

  Derrick Jensen

  Animal, Long, Arrogance

  Derrick Jensen, Karen Tweedy-Holmes (2007). “Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos”, p.87, No Voice Unheard

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• Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts. So, working with this very intelligent, smart cast meant that sometimes I would only have to start speaking a word and these wonderful actors would immediately catch onto what I wanted them to portray, and how I wanted them to act.

  Park Chan-wook

  Smart, People, Actors

  "Park Chan-wook, Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode Talk STOKER, First Impressions to the Script, Reactions to the Completed Film and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 24, 2013.

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• I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you're writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.

  Sheila Heti

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Should I Go to Grad School?: An Interview with Sheila Heti". Interview with Jessica Loudis, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2014.

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• These cybercrime fighters are regarded as the superheroes. They're highly intelligent and have this alien-like, advanced-type knowledge within themselves. It's something that impressed me every day.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Superhero, Fighter, Aliens

  "Chris Hemsworth Interview, Blackhat". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. August 29, 2018.

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• A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.

  Peter Yarrow

  Flip, Circumstances, Persons

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Men, Atheism

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• Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at all. It's another form of the God of the gaps. It's bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning.

  Guy Consolmagno

  Mean, America, Design

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• Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

  Voltaire

  Religious, Atheist, People

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• The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

  James Jeans

  Mean, Science, Race

  "Stars in Their Courses". Book by James Jeans (p. 153), 1931.

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• Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspiration, Aging, Used

  "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes, ch. VI, 1858.

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• If, then, there must be something eternal, let us see what sort of Being it must be. And to that it is very obvious to Reason, that it must necessarily be a cogitative Being. For it is as impossible to conceive that ever bare incogitative Matter should produce a thinking intelligent Being, as that nothing should of itself produce Matter.

  John Locke

  Thinking, Matter, Impossible

  John Locke (1825). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author”

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• The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation: The doctrine of a supreme, intelligent sovereign of the universe, I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization.

  John Adams

  Believe, Men, Civilization

  John Adams (1965). “The John Adams papers”

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• The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

  Ben Folds

  Monsters, Groups, Individual

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• We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but won't, can't, or doesn't dare. Boredom is acute when he knows the other thing and inhibits his action, e.g., out of politeness, embarrassment, fear of punishment or shame. Boredom is chronic if he has repressed the thought of it and no longer is aware of it. A large part of stupidity is just the chronic boredom, for a person can't learn, or be intelligent about, what he's not interested in, when his repressed thoughts are elsewhere.

  Paul Goodman

  Pain, Blessing, Punishment

  "Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (pp. 71-72), 1956.

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