Smart Quotes - Page 9

• There are a few people that I always say, "Hey, what do you think of this?" The minute that you know that you want this particular person to hear it, you know that you're pretty much done - although you're doing it to hear some feedback. It's a smart move to know whose ears you want.

  John Cale

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Interview with Melissa Locker, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

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• I was always the best athlete, people don't know that. But I was successful at everything I ever did and then I run for president, first time - first time, not three times, not six times. I ran for President first time and lo and behold, I win. And then people say oh, is he a smart person? I'm smarter than all of them put together, but they can't admit it. They had a bad year.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Athlete, Successful

  "Transcript of Donald Trump Interview With The Wall Street Journal". www.wsj.com. January 14, 2018.

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• tend to be better at describing feelings and ideas, and worse at painting a picture of any physical thing. I have terrible spatial reasoning skills so even if I were describing my girlfriend, whom I see every day, it sound like I was talking about a child's drawing of her. "Very beautiful. Glasses. Brown hair. Super smart brain. Bigger than our dog. Smaller than me".

  Josh Gondelman

  Beautiful, Dog, Girlfriend

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• I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.

  Criss Angel

  Book, Kids, College

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• and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.

  Augusten Burroughs

  School, Nursing, Nurse

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.93, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Real, Moving, Looks

  Anthony Elliott, Zygmunt Bauman (2007). “The contemporary Bauman”

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• Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

  Mel Brooks

  Stupid, Just Being, Wells

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• A woman who knows that she doesn't have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Sexy, Believe, Skills

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• And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

  John Green

  Class, May, Being Smart

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.32, Penguin

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• A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.

  Louis C. K.

  Team, Writing, Long

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• I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.

  Claire Danes

  Kids, Nerd, Quality

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• No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Awards, People

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• When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.

  Alan Dershowitz

  School, Mind, Littles

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• If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Army, Ifs

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• Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.

  Eric Ries

  Loss, Odds, Entrepreneur

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• Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?

  Caroline Knapp

  Ambitious, Enough, Strive

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• Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.

  David Zindell

  Suicide, Real, Stupid

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• You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

  Judy Holliday

  Play, Dumb, Blonde

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• How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

  Lou Holtz

  Stupid, Ifs, Knows

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• Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, What Matters, People

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• I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Engineering, People

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• I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they're educated. They go in ready and they're up for it, they're up for the party. It's a whole different atmosphere.

  Hugh Jackman

  Party, Atmosphere, Different

  "Exclusive: Hugh Jackman Talks His Return to Broadway and Gives Update on THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. October 3, 2011.

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• Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.

  Marc Jacobs

  Clever, Shopping, People

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• You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, World, Care

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