Smart People Quotes - Page 7

• It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Dog, Smart, Stupid

  "'The future is going to be very exciting'". Interview With Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2009.

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• Greg Gutfeld is funnier than all the smart people I know, and smarter than all the funny people I know. I don't know what that makes him. But one of the smartest, funniest people I know, is fair to say.

  Matt Labash

  Smart, People, Fairs

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• Smart people in rural areas, the handicapped, people looking for companionship, they love it. But you have to be highly motivated to get on and learn to use it.

  Philip Rosedale

  Smart, People, Use

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• All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.

  Michael Moritz

  Mistake, Smart, Ideas

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• Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.

  Jasper Fforde

  Mistake, Smart, Dirty

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• Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

  Bill Keller

  Smart, Stupid, People

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• Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Smart, People, Public Service

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• Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

  Kim Harrison

  Smart, Odds, People

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• I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.

  Ron Silver

  Smart, Thinking, People

  "AT LUNCH WITH Ron Silver; Lights, Camera, Action! Ideas, Activism, Democracy!" by Todd S. Purdum, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1993.

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• The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

  Ben Casnocha

  Smart, People, Dumb

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• You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

  Dave Eggers

  Smart, Kids, People

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• I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

  Roger Ebert

  Smart, People, Together

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• All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for people who think for themselves. I think metalheads are smart people who possess a healthy dose of self-irony and a good sense of humor, and that appeals to me. I felt a strong affinity with the scene from the first moment on.

  Tuomas Holopainen

  Music, Strong, Smart

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• You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.

  Mike Rowe

  Smart, Long, People

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.

  Matthew Perry

  Smart, Luxury, People

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• Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

  Peter York

  Smart, People, Conflict

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• I always enjoy coming to Israel. Israelis are warm, they're energetic people. Forthright. Very smart. I always like smart people. They're nice people, you know. Aggressive, and I respect that aggressiveness because you need it in their situation.

  Robert De Niro

  Nice, Smart, Israel

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• Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths.

  Peter Cundill

  Smart, Stupid, People

  "There's Always Something to Do", www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Tel Aviv is a dynamic international city with a lot of smart people, great fashion and food. I've met a lot of amazing people and there's this great energy everywhere.

  Greg Dulli

  Fashion, Smart, People

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• When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

  Andy Stanley

  Integrity, Smart, Stupid

  Andy Stanley (2011). “The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'

  George W. Bush

  Smart, People, Office

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.1262, Government Printing Office

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• There’s a virtuous cycle when people have to defend challenges to their ideas. Any gaps in thinking or analysis become clear pretty quickly when smart people ask good, logical questions. You can’t be a good value investor without being an independent thinker – you’re seeing valuations that the market is not appreciating. But it’s critical that you understand why the market isn’t seeing the value you do. The back and forth that goes on in the investment process helps you get at that.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Smart, Independent, Thinking

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• Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.

  Goldie

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Smart, Cities, People

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• The idiot was not a lot of thinking, which is an important move on. Smart people mostly think, consequently never stepped

  Bob Sadino

  Smart, Moving, Thinking

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