Smarter Quotes - Page 4

• Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

  Eli Roth

  People, Film, Tarantino

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• One of the things I noticed about the world was - it's funny, in the movie business, you meet a kind of guy who has a lot of money, whether they came by it as an actor or film-studio owner, and you realize these people aren't any smarter than you might be, or any more decent than you might be. It's just this weird fate of the world that it broke one way for someone.

  Steven Conrad

  Fate, People, Guy

  "The Promotion's Seann William Scott and Steve Conrad". Interview with David Wolinsky, film.avclub.com. June 9, 2008.

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• I think humans are stupid. We fight and kill each other. I think that's dumb. Aliens would be smarter than that and wouldn't approach things on that level. I can't really fathom it being a negative thing for aliens to visit.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Stupid, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

  Charles Darwin

  Building, Results, Mice

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• People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.

  Rachel Kadish

  Thinking, Two, People

  Rachel Kadish (2007). “Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story”, p.325, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you from conventionalism, faddishness, and cliché.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Writing, Assuming, Protect You

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• One of these days, someone smarter and younger and more articulate than I is going to get through to the American people just how really messed up the federal government has become. And when that happens, the American people are going to rise up like that football crowd in Cleveland and run both teams off the field.

  Zell Miller

  Football, Running, Team

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• The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

  Marcus Sakey

  Beer, People, Voting

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• Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Stupid, Simple, Government

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.198, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the library getting smarter or at the office getting better (or with their family growing kinder). Make this day count.

  Robin Sharma

  Home, Average, Office

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Oct 28, 2013

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• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

  Warren Buffett

  Journalist, Better Off

  "Blow to Press Freedom in Turkey" by Arzu Kaya Uranli, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2013.

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• At the end of the day, I like the spy genre, as opposed to the action movie genre, because spies are smart. The successful spies are the smarter spies.

  Doug Liman

  Smart, Successful, The End Of The Day

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.

  Bill Walsh

  Technology, Way, Phenomenon

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Take some time to sit down and figure out how your big rival is promoting their brand and plan something smarter and more creative for yours!

  Barbara Corcoran

  Creative, Rivals, Down And

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Aug 02, 2016

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• Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?” “On occasion,” said Locke. “There are contrary opinions.

  Scott Lynch

  Pigs, Opinion, Said

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1698, Del Rey

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• In this country, a smart leader is suspect. That's just the way it is. Even George Bush's father, who was a lot smarter than the son, had to sort of prove that he wasn't that bright.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Father, Smart

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• Women are much smarter then men and often are much more political creatures, so they can have the ability to manipulate men, particularly on a boat.

  Nick Willing

  Men, Political, Boat

  Source: collider.com

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• Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

  Dan Poynter

  Book, Looks, Want

  Dan Poynter (2003). “The self-publishing manual: how to write, print, and sell your own book”, Para Publishing

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• Building a smarter grid has long been a key part of our government's plan to modernize our energy infrastructure and provide clean, reliable affordable power to consumers. By supporting Ryerson's Centre for Urban Energy we are building a whole new landscape for innovations that will be the backbone for our energy system for future generations.

  Bob Chiarelli

  Keys, Government, Long

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• I think for one thing, kids are a lot smarter now then we ever were.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Kids, Thinking, One Thing

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• I like working with great talent, in every capacity. I have a rule of thumb, in any creative endeavor - whether I'm doing music and playing in a band, or working with producers, or directing - where I generally like to work with people who are smarter than me or better than me.

  Malik Yoba

  People, Creative, Band

  "Malik Yoba Exclusive Interview ALPHAS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• When you think of all the things that have happened, since that problem with computers in 2000 and everybody was afraid and they were buying water, imagine what Millennium would do with all the things that are going on in the world right now. It has the capacity to be a movie. But, anyway, I loved doing it. It changed my life because the guy that I was playing was so much more educated and smarter than I was, so I had to live up to it.

  Lance Henriksen

  Thinking, Water, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not saying I'm smarter than Steve Jobs was, but I would have made the iPhone charger cord twice as long.

  Daniel Tosh

  Jobs, Iphone, Long

  Twitter post from May 24, 2012

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• Shop smarter and shop less. But please don't let that dissuade you from engaging in campaigns to make real lasting change.

  Annie Leonard

  Real, Lasting Change, Campaigns

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• I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

  Shane McCrae

  People, Way, Glad

  Source: therumpus.net

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