Smart Quotes - Page 32

• Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.

  James C. Collins

  Self, People, Decision

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• A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.

  Suzanne Vega

  Song, Writing, People

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• Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Fighting, Men

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• I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

  Maurice Gibb

  Stars, Thinking, Car

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

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• This group right here is one of the most underrated groups in football. We don’t talk enough about this group. Very smart, they don’t leave the field, they play every single down, and they can cover backs and tight ends out of the backfield. This group is special.

  Willie McGinest

  Football, Play, Special

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• If you care about this country, if you want to take part in a citizen’s movement that helps heal the deep racial, economic, and cultural divides tearing us apart, you must read Eric Deggans’ Race-Baiter. No book of recent vintage so thoroughly dissects the media’s monetized appetite for division. Provocative, honest, and smart, Race-Baiter is a supremely important book. Read it and let the conversation begin.

  Connie May Fowler

  Country, Book, Media

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• I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

  Tom Hanks

  Romantic, Love Is, Men

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• I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.

  Cindy Sherman

  Thinking, People, Work Out

  Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty and mean.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Nice, Mean, Dumb

  "Jennifer Lawrence: a shot of Kentucky spirit" by Jane Graham, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2010.

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• I know this is going to sound really cheesy, but I have the coolest dad in the entire world. My dad is hilarious. He’s also strong, smart and makes me feel like he’s going to take care of everything. I think those are the qualities I look for in a boyfriend.

  Lea Michele

  Strong, Dad, Thinking

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• I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

  Adam Levine

  Intelligent, World, Realizing

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

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• If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

  David Duchovny

  Book, Humble, Want

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

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• I like playing smart, savvy, sexy women -- because it's so not me!

  Amanda Tapping

  Sexy, Sexy Women, Savvy

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• Guns make you stupidbetter to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  War, Fighting, Gun

  "Fictional character: Michael Westen". "Burn Notice/ Pilot", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've saved some paper, everybody's healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it's all good.

  Eddie Murphy

  Beautiful, Kids, Years

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• I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.

  Portia de Rossi

  Intellectual, Trying, Enough

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

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• It takes a smart guy to play dumb.

  Mr. T

  Play, Guy, Dumb

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• The female love interest is boring to me. A female that's interesting, smart, funny - that's what I'm drawn to. I wouldn't say that every character has to be smart, but she has to have one trait I can relate to.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Character, Interesting, Female

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• I'm pretty smart with boys. I know how to handle them and I know what to do around them.

  Ariel Winter

  Boys, Handle, Know How

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

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• I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

  Tia Carrere

  Play, Female, Roles

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

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• I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

  Chevy Chase

  Intelligent, Thinking, Bills

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• I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler -
  because George Bush, for one thing,
  is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.

  David Clennon

  Compare, One Thing

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• I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you.

  James Gandolfini

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.

  Rebel Wilson

  School, Lots Of Friends, Wanted

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• I brake for birds. I rock a lot of polka dots. I have touched glitter in the last 24 hours. I spend my entire day talking to children. And I find it fundamentally strange that you're not a dessert person. It freaks me out. I'm sorry that I don't talk like Murphy Brown. And I hate your pants suit. I wish it had ribbons on it or something just to make it slightly cuter but that doesn't mean I'm not smart and tough and strong.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Strong, Children, Sorry

  "Fictional character: Jess". "New Girl" (Season 1, Episode 11), 2011-2018.

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