Smart People Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.

  Veronica Roth

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

  Chris Argyris

  Smart, Teaching, Learning

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• I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb people liked Journey.

  Howie Klein

  Smart, Hate, Journey

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• I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Smart, Technology

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• The Chinese are not stupid people. They're very smart people. They told me very, very distinctly that they cannot believe how stupid our representatives are in the United States. They cannot believe that they can continue to take all our jobs - you know, through the manipulation of the currency, of their currency, they make it almost impossible for our great companies to compete.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Smart, Stupid

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think the smart people will get even smarter, and the dumb people will get even dumber. But I think they all will enjoy A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila, no matter how you slice it. You know, we keep eating it up. Some of the most intelligent people I know cannot get enough of it. That's a dangerous thing.

  Joel McHale

  Smart, Thinking, Intelligent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My colleagues across the aisle in Brooklyn and team Clinton are very smart people. I respect them very much. But they misread America. They, they did not have her in red states. They, they were pretending that they were going to turn red blue.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Smart, Team, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The way I've always governed my life as far as fiscal policy goes is I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb about it, so I surround myself with smart people in much the same way a hole surrounds itself with a doughnut. I just pay things off. That's all I do.

  Dennis Miller

  Smart, People, Dumb

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.

  Ice Cube

  Smart, People, Brilliant

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• I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

  Jim Rash

  Smart, People, Secret

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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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• 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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