Smart Quotes - Page 39

• Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Clever, Arousal

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• The rest of the story from Acts 1:8 explains that Christ-followers have a mission while here on earth. They are to be Christ’s witnesses all over this planet. It’s as if Christ said, “Think you’re missing the book smarts, the street smarts, the looks, the talent, or the speaking ability to accomplish this mission? Don’t be concerned with those things, because you have my mountain-moving, life-transforming, death-defying power on your side.”

  Bill Hybels

  Moving, Book, Thinking

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• Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not merely to preserve something from its gradual demise; it's to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.

  Bill Hybels

  Jobs, Moving, Play

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• But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

  Paul Krugman

  Wall, Men, People

  "Paul Krugman: 'I'm sick of being Cassandra. I'd like to win for once'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2012.

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• Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

  David Brooks

  Courageous, Debate, Conventions

  "David Brooks on Palin: A Profile in Cowardice" by Greg Mitchell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness.

  Donny Deutsch

  Greatness, Leader, Why Not

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• I was a baby when I came into the world--otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.

  Frank Wedekind

  Baby, Different, World

  Frank Wedekind (2010). “Spring Awakening: A Play”, p.25, Macmillan

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• Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Wise, Want, Easy

  "Why Jerry Seinfeld Doesn't Buy the 'Burden of Celebrity'". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 22, 2014.

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• To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.

  Jimmy Wales

  School, Kids, Keys

  "Q&A" with Jimmy Wales, www.c-span.org. September 12, 2005.

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• Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a very clever and very smart novel by a very clever and smart writer. The dialogue crackles, the plot is intriguing, and the pacing is perfect.

  Karin Slaughter

  Clever, Order, Long

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• The richest people in the world aren't particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren't particularly smart or rich.… That leaves me making music. But we can't talk about that.

  Frank Zappa

  People, World, Rich

  "A Conversation With Frank Zappa" by Dave Rothman, in "Oui", April 1979.

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• As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you're gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headachesmake you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out.

  Frank Zappa

  Jobs, Believe, School

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• The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Rocks, Typical

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• The thing I like about our fans is that they are smart, they are good-looking and we can agree to disagree

  Martie Maguire

  Fans, Agree To Disagree, Looking Good

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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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• Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart people everywhere. What they are those religious apologists are smart poeple who can build these amazingly intricate rationalizations for whatever weird practice they favor. Whether it's ritual cannibalism, or praying to spirits, or treating women as chattel. And they always building this on terrible shaky foundation of false premises.

  PZ Myers

  Religious, Philosophy, Stupid

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• I'm a really, really, smart, multi-talented almost-genius, who's very annoying.

  Tyler, The Creator

  Genius, Annoying, Really Smart

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• I did things I should not have done. But people make mistakes, especially at my age, when you feel you are so smart, but in fact you are an asshole.

  Martina Hingis

  Mistake, People, Age

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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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• 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 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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• There isn't anything to worry about between science and religion, because the contradictions are just in your own mind. Of course they are there, but they are not in the Lord's mind because He made the whole thing, so there is a way, if we are smart enough, to understand them so that we will not have any contradictions.

  Henry J. Eyring

  Worry, Mind, Way

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• About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last.

  Lev Grossman

  Perfect, Pages, Lasts

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• Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people - to build something isn't a one-man show. It's more important to have smart people who really believe in what you're doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Dream, Believe, Men

  "What I've learned, by Skype's Niklas Zennstrom" by David Rowan, www.wired.com. June 11, 2010.

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• A fantastic, gleeful, chrome-plated-slick debut of a novel. In Jonathan Chase, Markham has created the perfect cliche-shattering super spy while honoring the progenitors. Dangerously sharp, and genuinely fun-and very, very, very smart. I want more books like this. I want more books from the mind of Mr. Markham!

  Greg Rucka

  Fun, Book, Perfect

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