Very Clever Quotes - Page 4

• Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Fighting, Russia, Long

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.

  Pope Pius X

  Clever, Teaching, Reality

  Pope Pius X's Encyclical letter "Pascendi dominici gregis", w2.vatican.va. September 8,1907.

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• It's very professionally done, very clever songwriting. I like Backstreet Boys more than 'N Sync, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, it's all very well done stuff. Much better than the Partridge Family and New Kids On The Block. I took my kids to see Backstreet Boys live and they flipped out

  Gene Simmons

  Clever, Block, Kids

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• The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.

  Thomas Sowell

  Zero, Real, Law

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.55, Hoover Press

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• A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

  Honore de Balzac

  Clever, Men, Law

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• In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

  Miles Franklin

  Children, Clever, Careers

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.

  Bernard Lietaer

  Clever, Stupid, Guy

  Source: www.greenamerica.org

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• Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I think it's witty. And I have those great clothes. You have a great, witty, intelligent script and you look like a million dollars, because we have a great costumer, and it's a pretty good place to begin.

  Glenn Close

  Witty, Clever, Fun

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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• I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.

  Craig Ferguson

  Clever, Crazy, Causes

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• Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Clever, Today, Appeasement

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• If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. Part of the freedom in directing, for me, is that I'm also the camera operator. That's the place where things are less rigid, where I can adjust as I go along.

  Patrice Leconte

  Clever, Giving, Cameras

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.

  David Allen

  Clever, Stupid, Focus

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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• I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.

  Paul Auster

  Clever, Boys, Thinking

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug.

  Erik Naggum

  Clever, Used And Abused, Insanity

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• O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.

  e. e. cummings

  Clever, Heart, Thinking

  E.E. Cummings (2015). “The Enormous Room”, p.102, Xist Publishing

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• I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that.

  Virginia Woolf

  Jobs, Clever, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.755, Wordsworth Editions

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• Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was … that some people can do sums. … It is in virtue of the intellect that man is a rational animal. The intellect is shown in various ways, but most emphatically by mastery of arithmetic. The Greek system of numerals was very bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated calculations could only be made by very clever people.

  Bertrand Russell

  Clever, Animal, Men

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• Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me?

  Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

  Clever, Men, Shoes

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• For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
  A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
  Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man;
  But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool.
  I never made a mistake in my life;
  At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards

  Rudyard Kipling

  Clever, Mistake, Men

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• I really liked Tom & Jerry. That was huge for me. I watched it every morning, before I walked to school. Even as a kid, I thought there was something really smart about it. I thought it was very clever.

  Jason Lee

  Morning, Clever, Smart

  "Jason Lee ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 13, 2011.

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• Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Men, Brightness

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• Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.

  PZ Myers

  Clever, Creating, People

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• When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Thinking, Sound

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• The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attack coming to America.

  Rand Paul

  Clever, Paris, America

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Clever, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.discdish.com

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