Intelligent Quotes - Page 15

• You're not a Black man. You're a human being in God's eyes. So when you sit down to talk to someone and you talk to them in really intelligent terms, you ask difficult questions, there's a militancy that's assigned to you without you asking for it, because you are simply judged by what you look like. If you're a white person asking the same questions, you'd be one of these CNN guys and say how brilliant he is. That doesn't work for you, because this is the world we live in.

  James McBride

  Eye, Men, Difficult Questions

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The majority of guys that I've met, that I consider confident and sexy, are pretty well rooted in who they are. They know their values and their worth as a person. They know they are intelligent, caring men, and that generates confidence.

  Stephanie Beatriz

  Sexy, Caring, Men

  Interview with Hermanos Editors, www.askmen.com.

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• Slavery was a web of relationships, and if people knew how thick the whole business was, they would not make fun of people like Harriet Tubman. They would understand how intelligent she was and how sharp.

  James McBride

  Fun, People, Slavery

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I didn't want to do an electro-class album or complex rap album. I wanted to do something that was kind of like a political statement, but also club jams. I wanted it to be dancy, but intelligent at the same time.

  Le1f

  Rap, Class, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent

  Muhammad Ali

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• Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one

  Tony Blair

  Educated, Aim, Nations

  Tony Blair (1997). “New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Running, Reacting, Aggressive

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.74, Penguin

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• If you are a very intelligent person, you will see this: All the realities in the universe can be changed!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Reality, Changed, Persons

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• If you are not lucky enough, you can't reach the future! You might be very intelligent, you might be very talented and a very good planner, but you still need 'luck' to reach tomorrow, you still need to be lucky to reach the future!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Luck, Needs, Might

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• If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making yourself much unknown, you are definitely the most intelligent celebrity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Names, Succeed, Very Famous

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• One is greater than two amongst three men where only one of them is intelligent!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Two, Three

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• A woman is a highly developed, deeply intelligent, infinitely complicated being. And it needs to be carefully tricked into doing things.

  Arj Barker

  Needs, Complicated

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• Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are.

  Emo Philips

  Thinking, Computer

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• Most people that you talk to, they's intelligent. Like I said, "Most people."

  Richard Pryor

  People, Said

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• You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to talk R-rated. I mean I've got three incredibly intelligent daughters, but when you get mad, you get mad and you talk like people talk. When a normal 17-year-old girl storms out of the house or 15-year-old boy is mad at his mom or dad, they're not talking the way people talk on TV. Unless it's cable.

  Bob Saget

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

  "The R-rated comedy makes its comeback". The Associated Press, www.today.com. September 01, 2005.

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• The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

  Greg Giraldo

  Smart, Self, Laughing

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

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• I was always the class clown, although many teachers view the class clown as a trouble maker. But I always had good grades, so the only thing my parents were told was that while I was intelligent, I talked too much.

  Godfrey

  Teacher, Views, Class

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• Painting demands an intelligent model.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Demand, Painting, Models

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• The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Differences, Cells

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.

  Sun Tzu

  People, Use, Agents

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• I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured...with an informed and intelligent mind.

  Sylvia Plath

  Believe, Mind, Able

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• The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

  George Santayana

  Reform, Use, Study

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.103, Courier Corporation

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• Woody Allen once said: "You know there must be intelligent life in space. The question is do they have good Chinese restaurants and do they deliver?" Which is really a joke, but it is also a very profound remark. When you say do they have good Chinese restaurants, what you're really saying is, "How much are they like us?" And when you say, "Do they deliver?" you're saying, "Can they get here?" Both of which are profound questions. And at the present, we have no answers.

  Gene Wolfe

  Space, Profound, Chinese

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• I have very distinct things that I like. I have very distinct opinions. Just because I choose to be a little less overt out on the campaign [trail] doesn't mean I'm anything less than very opinionated and very intelligent.

  Cindy McCain

  Mean, Littles, Campaigns

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Upside of being an attractive woman; if you're remotely intelligent, people will treat you like you're brilliant. Downside: same thing.

  Dov Davidoff

  People, Brilliant, Like You

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