Smart Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

  Nick Hornby

  Book, People, Want

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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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• Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?

  Peter Thiel

  School, Careers, People

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.31, Crown Business

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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 talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

  Larry Wall

  Stupid, Becoming, Realizing

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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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• I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are hard to get. I will drive all the way to Pittsburgh or Detroit to put it in their hands.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Book, Independent, Hands

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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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• CM has always stood for one thing: Chicago Made. Chick Magnet? That's preposterous. Girls don't like me. I was born and raised in Chicago. The city made me. Punk is just because I've always been a smart-mouthed, wise-ass punk. I still am. I was the guy, if a bunch of football players were messing with one of my friends, I'd walk over there and spit in their face.

  CM Punk

  Girl, Wise, Football

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

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• I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/Lauren, baby use your head/But instead I chose to use my heart.

  Lauryn Hill

  Baby, Heart, Careers

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• I do believe in listening to your mind as well that that you need to be smart about certain things, to protect yourself. You need a healthy mix of both really, but it's important not to think so much that you're not able to follow your heart.

  Lily Collins

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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

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• I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.

  Brendan Fraser

  Grateful, Monsters, Enough

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

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