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

  Bill Keller

  Smart, Stupid, People

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• My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously.

  Michael Weatherly

  Mother, Father, Smart

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

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Clever, 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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• All that was clear that the profits to be had from smart people making complicated bets overwhelmed anything that could be had from servicing customers, or allocating capital to productive enterprise.

  Michael Lewis

  Smart, People, Overwhelmed

  Michael Lewis (2011). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine”, p.258, W. W. Norton & Company

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• John McCain, who once called Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson 'forces of evil', has now come out for teaching intelligent design. That is sad, when smart people have to pretend to be so dumb to get elected.

  Bill Maher

  Smart, Teaching, Intelligent

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• The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.

  Terence McKenna

  Smart, Moving, Believe

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• I love people, 'cause people are so smart. People have done a lot of great things.

  Lil B

  Smart, People, Causes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.

  Randy Pausch

  Smart, People, Easy

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• In our culture, we have smart people and then we have the hot people. And the hot people have all the sex, and the smart people don't.

  Mark Haskell Smith

  Sex, Smart, People

  "NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBE CURRENT ISSUE PREVIOUS POSTS The Pressure Cooker as Transcendence". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. January 15, 2014.

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• As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of the smart people to come together in one place where they can interact with one another.

  Neal Stephenson

  Smart, People, Library

  Neal Stephenson (2012). “Some Remarks”, p.146, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When you think about being contrarian, you have to think about - how is it that smart people will disagree with me, disagree with me ...from a position of intelligence, and there is something that I know that they don't know, that will actually in fact play out to be true.

  Reid Hoffman

  Smart, Thinking, Play

  "How To Be A Great Founder". Lecture by Reid Hoffman, genius.com. November 4, 2014.

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• I have no idea how it got so big. I was just trying to find something to do while I was living in Boulder, Colorado, which isn't really a funny town. There are a lot of smart people there, but comedy isn't at the forefront of their minds.

  George Meyer

  Smart, Ideas, People

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• My parents both left school at 14, but my parents are incredibly smart, successful, thoughtful people. So one of the lessons I learned from my parents is that the fancy degree is just a foot in the door, and there are a lot of very smart people out there who don't necessarily have the fancy degrees. And given the opportunity, they can do amazing things.

  Harry West

  Smart, School, Successful

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I don't see what the alternative to risk management is. If it's just getting rid of the models and instead using the smart people who can figure it out? How do you train them? What do you teach them? Do you just put them in a cockpit and let them stumble for 10 years of their life and then after that they're good at it?

  Robert F. Engle

  Smart, Years, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It was a time of turmoil at colleges and universities. And I saw some very smart people and very privileged people behaving irresponsibly. And I couldn't help making a contrast between some of the worst of what I saw on the campus and the good sense and the decency of the people back in my own community.

  Samuel Alito

  Smart, College, People

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• Being in writers' rooms turns you feral. You are swearing, you are going to very dark, mean places. You start out in the room with all these smart people, and you're all well-read and well-educated and the humor is really erudite. And then over the course of the year, after the production schedule grinds you down, it is just so mean and stupid.

  Maria Semple

  Smart, Stupid, Mean

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• First of all, with Mitt Romney, I was saying to the Mormons - the Mormons are very smart people.

  Donald Trump

  Smart, People, Firsts

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I don't think Mitt Romney is a smart person. I never have thought he was a smart person. But the Mormons are very smart people.

  Donald Trump

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think we knew that this would be just like raising the kids together, this would be a fun thing to do in partnership. And you know, we're so lucky because we get to hire in very smart people. We get to partner with governments like the Canadian Development Organization - CIDA, USAID - tonnes of scientists doing this work. This is fascinating.

  Bill Gates

  Fun, Smart, Kids

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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