Smart Quotes - Page 37

• People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.

  Patrick Ewing

  Thinking, People, Guy

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• When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do.

  Patrick Ewing

  Play, Important, Schemes

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• You are too smart and too knowledgeable to believe much of the nonsense you have been espousing on global warming and many other issues.

  Howard Wolpe

  Believe, Issues, Global Warming

  "Howard Wolpe: U.S. Rep. Fred Upton has become a 'right-wing extremist'". An Open Letter To Fred Upton, www.mlive.com. October 14, 2011.

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• I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

  Michael Crichton

  Ideas, Political, Enough

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• We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.

  Van Jones

  Country, Government, Supportive

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• I want the young people to pay attention because, see, back when I first met Barack, we started dating, he had everything going for him. All right, ladies, listen to this. This is what I want you to be looking for. Yes, he was handsome-still is. I think so. He was charming, talented, and oh-so smart, truly. But that is not why I married him. Now, see, I want the fellas to pay attention to this. You all listening? What truly made me fall in love with Barack Obama was his character. You hear me? It was his character. It was his decency, his honesty, his compassion and conviction.

  Michelle Obama

  Falling In Love, Honesty, Character

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• We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.

  Mitch Daniels

  Choices, Low Income, Citizens

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Retorts, Audience, Reasoning

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.328, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• When the world is predictable you need smart people.
  When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

  Henry Mintzberg

  People, Needs, World

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• People know I'm smart. And people know that, whether it's SNL or Jimmy Kimmel, it's a trend to take the piss out of celebrity -- just as much of a trend as wearing a gray hoodie or driving a Prius.

  Kanye West

  Crazy, People, Trends

  "Kanye West has acquired some 'Kim K. skills'" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. July 21, 2014.

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• Protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind his back. Smart man!.

  Liona Boyd

  Music, Crush, Teacher

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• In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

  Camille Paglia

  Real, Skills, Ideas

  Playboy Interview, May 1995.

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• Raptors are smart. Very smart. Believe me, all the problems we have so far are nothing compared with what we'd have if the raptors ever got out of their holding pen.

  Robert Muldoon

  Believe, Problem, Raptors

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• And suddenly, I realized the system that I was in did not know what intelligence was, didn't know how to identify smart and not smart. They called me the best, when I knew I wasn't, and they called him the worst, when he was the best. I mean, there could be no more antipodal environment. So I began to question: What is intelligence? Who says? Who says you're smart? Who says you're not smart? And what do they mean by that?

  Tony Buzan

  Mean, Environment, Worst

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• The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Stupid, Fool

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• I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have. “Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.

  Woody Hayes

  Running, Fun, Believe

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• Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.

  Erwin Rommel

  Men, Giving, Dumb

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• You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.

  Jeff Bezos

  Two, Long, Amazon

  Letter to shareholders, media.corporate-ir.net. 1997.

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• Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont.

  Burt Rutan

  People, Breakthrough, Wacky

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• The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.

  Dizzy Dean

  Curves, Different, Pitching

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• 'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.

  Albert Allen Bartlett

  Class, Differences, Dumb

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• Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.

  Greg Camp

  Running, Fun, Years

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• We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.

  Jack Kornfield

  Ideas, Gone, Stories

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart”, p.6, Sounds True

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• People, like large groups of people are stupid. Individuals are smart and can deal with things and can make things last and work, but when people get together in big crowds they're stupid. They turn into sheep, then you have major situations.

  Brandon Boyd

  Stupid, Sheep, People

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• I’d rather apologize than to be so timid as to never try to do anything smart or brave.

  Lee Clow

  Brave, Marketing, Trying

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