Intelligent Quotes - Page 30

• Often, everywhere we look, we seem to find obstacles and facades and smokescreens, so it was really nice to find things in the world that actually spoke to me. And I felt like Eastern thought really spoke to me. Because it isn't trying to cover up the pain in life; it's trying to deal with it and overcome it in an intelligent way. I think the reason I love Eastern thought so much, and mysticism in general - but especially Buddhism - is because it seems to me an attempt to look life squarely in the face, as it is.

  Jeff Mangum

  Pain, Nice, Buddhism

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was trying to find out what happened in my lifetime, because I was an older man. We lived through two terms of George Bush, and I was wondering, "Is he an exception to the rule, or he is a continuation? What is driving all these wars? What is driving this attitude of aggressiveness and militarism?" I got my answer - and it was a shocking answer. I found is this whole strain of history, this whole school has been denied by the media. It is a bizarre blindness, because we are such an intelligent country. It's bizarre that we can't get our own history straight.

  Oliver Stone

  Country, Attitude, War

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would be very surprised if on another planet we discovered a species as intelligent as humans that didn't have narrative, or didn't have art in general.

  Brian Boyd

  Art

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can't tell you how many times at the breakfast table my dad would curse out Franklin Roosevelt. I love my father. He was an intelligent man, but he really didn't like regulations of the Roosevelt style, or the taxes. He was an Dwight Eisenhower man. And that's what Eisenhower did, committed to breaking down the program.

  Oliver Stone

  Dad, Father, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The individual attributes of warmth and competence are often perceived to be negatively correlated. That doesn't mean they actually are, but that's how people perceive the world. So, cruel people, those who gave negative book reviews, for instance, were seen as less likeable but as more intelligent.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Book, Mean, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Do you remember A Wrinkle in Time? It's a good one example. I think the character's name is Meg. I just remember she was a very logical, intelligent, advanced girl. I wouldn't say that I felt like that was who I was, but I wanted to be around her; I wanted to be like her. She had an understanding of science and was incredibly curious - an interesting, complex young girl.

  A Fine Frenzy

  Girl, Thinking, Interesting

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• I'd love to be a director-for-hire and get a nice paycheck and captain one of those big ships, but I think studios mistakenly think I want to write what I direct - which I don't. I write out of desperation, because I never get a script I like, other than "Nebraska." It's a matter of: What's the screenplay? Is it intelligent? Is it human? I don't care what genre, what scale. I'm here for the movies.

  Alexander Payne

  Nice, Writing, Thinking

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• Having my foundation be from two positive black role models in my life, my mom and my dad, two strong-minded intelligent individuals who clearly have made a great deal of great decisions in their lives and put me in a position, via educational institutions, to be around other intelligent people and to have a strong moral foundation, from which I try to never stray far. It all spurred me to carve out my own little niche as a human being.

  Mr. Lif

  Mom, Strong, Dad

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• Legally Blonde was something that I just knew was going to make Reese Witherspoon the biggest star in the world. I knew - seeing Reese handle that with such intelligent ditziness - and she'd just had her baby and she looked fabulous and she's such a hard worker. I just knew. I remember doing press for that movie and Reese was already exhausted, but someone that would never say they were exhausted because she's that much of a professional.

  Selma Blair

  Baby, Hard Work, Blonde

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• I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Mother, Grateful

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• In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.

  Scott Bakula

  Fans, World, Tough

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• Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

  Russell Banks

  Writing, Honest, Realizing

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• Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

  Dave Barry

  Football, Sharks, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, School, Three

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

  Clive Bell

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

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• I’ve thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.

  Elayne Boosler

  Pages, Able, Lasts

  "You Didn’t Hear the One About..." by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

  David Bowie

  Player, Musician, Admire

  "David Bowie". Interview with Ingrid Sischy for Interview Magazine, September 1995.

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• What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.

  Julie Burchill

  Crush, Real, Men

  "What I know about men". www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2007.

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• A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

  Anthony Burgess

  Intelligence, Intellectual, May

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

  Nicolas Cage

  Roots, People, Mind

  "Nicolas Cage Interview - KNOWING". Press conference, collider.com. March 18, 2009.

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• While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Design, Support

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• I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

  Robert Carlyle

  Imagination, World, Fans

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

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• When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Behavior, Individual, Turns

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• Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.

  Benjamin Carson

  Names, People, Facts

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• I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Men, Different, Incarnation

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