Clever Quotes - Page 39

• What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Style, Needs, News

  c.1910 Quoted in Alleyne Ireland An Adventure with a Genius, ch.4.

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• It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were to end up in jail. This was not just because the poor committed more crimes. In fact, they did. The rich did not have to commit crimes to get what they wanted; the laws were on their side. But when the rich did commit crimes, they often were not prosecuted, and if they were they could get out on bail, hire clever lawyers, get better treatment from judges. Somehow, the jails ended up full of poor black people.

  Howard Zinn

  Law, Jail, People

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.516, Routledge

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• Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

  George Meyer

  Versions, Eunuchs

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• He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Smart, People, Smart People

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book One in 'The Duel Between the Professor and the Poet', B/O, 1967.

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• Both Einstein and Freud were clever in leaving Germany, because both of them would doubtlessly have been caught by Himmler and murdered.

  Hans Frank

  Leaving, Germany, Caught

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• [Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.

  Terry Gilliam

  Nice, Stupid, Home

  YouTube Channel "MeatTycoon"/"Terry Gilliam criticizes Spielberg and Schindler's List", www.youtube.com. August 14, 2009.

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• To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

  Roger Zelazny

  Art, Waste, Embalming

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• Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

  Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

  Doe, Half, Fool

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• I had come to believe that I was not as clever as some other kids who were my friends. And yet I knew even then that I wanted to do something of an intellectual nature, and excel at it. I also realized that if I was going to succeed at all, it would be through hard work.

  Irving Sandler

  Believe, Hard Work, Ambition

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• But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.

  Pope Pius X

  Teaching, Reality, Errors

  Pope Pius X's Encyclical letter "Pascendi dominici gregis", w2.vatican.va. September 8,1907.

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• The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So many writers talk about libraries setting them on their magical paths, it's almost a groaner. But we know it's true. Wander through the stacks and you can feel the dreams, the unique worlds bubbling within each volume. The magic enters you as if by osmosis. On the Web, you may feel clever, lucky and driven to download--but rarely inspired to dream and to write.

  Arthur Plotnik

  Dream, Writing, Unique

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• The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Miracle, Incentives, Mixtures

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

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• With all the clever brains in America it would be great to see more investment and focus on this essential research!

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  America, Focus, Brain

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• Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.

  Peter Brimelow

  Wise, Men, Good Man

  Peter Brimelow (1988). “The patriot game: Canada and the Canadian question revisited”, Key Porter Books, [1988]

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• The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who are masters of the wicked nature of their own species, and recognize ferally the distinctions of the hated human species. Nonetheless, obsessively dedicated to being such animals, they can not [sic] assimilate those qualities unique to true human beings.

  Lyndon LaRouche

  Animal, Unique, Wicked

  Lyndon LaRouche (2016). “The Secrets Known Only To The Inner Elites”, p.169, Executive Intelligence Review

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• Richard [Griffiths] was by my side during two of the most important moments of my career. In August 2000, before official production had even begun on Potter, we filmed a shot outside the Dursleys', which was my first ever shot as Harry. I was nervous and he made me feel at ease. Seven years later, we embarked on 'Equus' together. It was my first time doing a play but, terrified as I was, his encouragement, tutelage and humor made it a joy. In fact, any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Encouragement, Years, Play

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• Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Stupid

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• A player who dives and wins a penalty in Portugal, or Spain or Italy is considered clever, experienced, cunning, someone who understands the game. In England a player who wins a penalty like that is a cheat.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Winning

  "'Why go for 5-0 when 2-0 will do?' says Jose". Interview with David Shonfield, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2006.

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• Ed, I see you're out drinking again. What's the occasion? I was sober.

  Ed Byrne

  Funny, Smart, Drinking

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• You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life & Times of Willie Donaldson.

  Jay Nordlinger

  Funny, Smart, Ends

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• Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Funny, Smart, Men

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• Alcoholic: anybody who drinks more than I do.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Smart, Drink

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• As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the 'Onion,' I honestly could not decide whether this was a clever hoax or not - the arguments were almost exactly as stupid as the real thing.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Stupid, Onions

  "Equal Time" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 23, 2005.

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• In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life even if we do not always know precisely how, when or where they perform their tasks, and the not knowing - the flimsy, filmy elusiveness - is supremely characteristic of America's expressions of religious dissent. For in the United States no stalwart orthodoxy stands ever ready to parry the sharp thrust or clever feints of dissent.

  Edwin Gaustad

  Religious, Expression, Knowing

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• Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Intelligent, Evil, Weapons

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 10, 2014.

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