Clever Quotes - Page 37

• No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Independent, Men, Honorable Man

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• If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

  Patrice Leconte

  Giving, Directors, Film

  "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

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• In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Smart, Hard Work, Feelings

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

  Anthony Minghella

  Girl, Kids, Firsts

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• Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

  Denise Mina

  Book, Writing, People

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• The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

  Samuel West

  Russia, Ideas, Would Be

  "Best of the West". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2007.

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• More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

  Peter Norvig

  Data, Algorithms, Beats

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• My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

  Nico

  Dad, Great Men, Great Managers

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• Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just add it to the next edition. 'Mother was right.' Author: Mrs. Bartlett, world-renowned nag. Year: 1859. Attribution: A short play entitled Every Goddamn Weekend!

  John Bartlett

  Mother, Nice, Weekend

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• I like clever songs. I like songs that make people think and I try to have substance in all my records, even with 'Sweet Dreams' how it was a club record and it was up tempo, but it was melodic and it was, like, lyrical.

  Rico Love

  Dream, Song, Sweet

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• Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those Mercs and Beemers, while Ben & Jerry's (now owned by Unilever) brought a post-hippy sensibility to bear. Buyers saw the brand as saying 'all-natural, organic and Fairtrade.

  Peter York

  Names, Saws, Firsts

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• Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which is E equals M C squared.

  Richard Digance

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

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• I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you are. I put down "Kit Harington," and they looked at me like I was completely stupid, and they said, "No, you're Christopher Harington, I'm afraid." It was only then I learnt my actual name. That was kind of a bizarre existential crisis for an 11-year-old to have, but in the end I always stuck with Kit, because I felt that's who I was. I'm not really a "Chris."

  Kit Harington

  Stupid, School, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Able, Events

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• It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

  George Eliot

  Stupidity, Pigeons, Talent

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.265, Courier Corporation

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• One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Embarrassed, Mistrust

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.272, Modern Library

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• An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.

  Leigh Hunt

  Art, Writing, Kissing

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• Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.

  Gore Vidal

  Population, Half, Newspapers

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• Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.

  Henry Moore

  Artist, People, Signatures

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• How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.

  Orson Scott Card

  Pathways, Hell, Found

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.291, Macmillan

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• My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.

  Jeff Bezos

  Teamwork, Grandfather, Be Kind

  "Jeff Bezos: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2002.

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• Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?

  Stephen Sondheim

  Thrones, Passionate, Handsome

  Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine (1988). “Into the Woods”, Crown

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• Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit.

  George F. Kennan

  Russia, Deceit, Determined

  "George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy". Book by David Allan Mayers, p. 30, 1988.

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• The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is being sloppy. They are taking everything Bob Dole has ever said we ought to do regarding taxes and adding all of those things up and saying it will cost $800 billion.

  Bob Dole

  White, House, Facts

  "Dole to unveil Reaganesque economic plan". www.cnn.com. August 5, 1996.

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• It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Canvas, Enough, Craftsman

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