Very Smart Quotes

• I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Life, Children, Smart

  "AT LUNCH WITH: Fran Lebowitz; Words Are Easy, Books Are Not". Interview with Bob Morris, www.nytimes.com. August 10, 1994.

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• If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

  George Bernard Shaw

  Smart, Shoes, Rebel

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• Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

  Andy Rooney

  Smart, Thinking, Boys

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• I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

  Sienna Miller

  Birthday, Smart, Thinking

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  A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Being Strong, Wisdom, Stay Strong

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “The Power of Leadership”, p.18, David C Cook

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• She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.

  Johnny Depp

  Smart, Perfect, Kind

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• The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Dog, Sorry

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.415, Princeton University Press

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• I would say most people assume that I'm not very smart or educated or earnest, because I have this image that I'm sort of narcissistic, chasing attention, and wanting people to like me. It makes me laugh because I've done plenty of interviews and when you read the article from beginning to end you can see that I'm not your typical music video model.

  Megan Fox

  Smart, People, Laughing

  "Megan Fox hair color change on set of Teenage Ninja Turtles 2 movie" by nationalledger.com, May 14, 2015.

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• I'm tall and smart. If you're aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren't very smart themselves.

  Julia Roberts

  Smart, People, Intimidating

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Barack Obama's daughters are very smart. They told him they will take the same responsibility for the dog that he is taking for the economy. That way, if the dog leaves a mess in the White House, it'll be cleaned up by future generations.

  Jay Leno

  Daughter, Dog, Smart

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• My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Smart, School, Effort

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• every smart / Is eased in telling.

  Georgiana Goddard King

  Smart, Confession

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• I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.

  Kenneth Koch

  New York, Smart, Writing

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• Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.

  Ann Landers

  Smart, Dumb, May

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• Here's the number one reason Americans are heavy: The brain, very smartly, wants nutrition. But the average American is not eating nutrients; he or she is eating empty calories. So you finish that 2,000 calories and your brain says, Keep going until you get nutrients.

  Mehmet Oz

  Numbers, Average, Brain

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• The problem with Salafis is that they are religiously sincere and politically naïve. And they allow themselves to be supported by people who have no religious sincerity but who are politically very smart, especially when it comes to their economic interests.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Religious, Smart, People

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• When you strip the bark off of Donald Trump, I think he's a very practical person. I think he's a very smart person. He's got an analytical mind. I think he's tapped into something. His son said he's the "blue collar billionaire."

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Smart, Son, Thinking

  Source: gawker.com

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• It [Hancock] happens to be a big budget film and big star like Will Smith, but it actually has a lot of weight to it. But it was very smart and very intelligent and had this kind of historical element to it that I was fascinated by. It's not silly. It's not stupid. It's fun, but I think it's smart. I think Akiva [Goldsman] writes really interesting material and there you have it.

  Charlize Theron

  Stars, Fun, Smart

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• My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart.

  Alley Mills

  Mother, Smart, Feminist

  "Danica McKellar, Olivia d’Abo and Alley Mills Talk THE WONDER YEARS, How the Show Impacted Their Lives, and the 23 Hours of Bonus Features on the DVD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Despite the insanity of using whether you would want to have a beer with someone as a legitimate reason for voting for or against them, I always felt that is indicative of a massive problem in politics: It matters as much what your personality is as how smart you are or how good you are at your job. That is a huge, huge problem. A lot of people who are very smart or very good at their jobs are not people I would want to ever have a beer with - but I would want them making massive policy decisions with huge implications for the future of the planet.

  Michael Schur

  Jobs, Smart, Beer

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What if she figures out you're not very smart?

  Billy Joel

  Smart, What If, Unanswered Questions

  Song: Modern Woman, Album: The Bridge, 1986

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• The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives.

  Ronald Perelman

  Strong, Smart, Reality

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• The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept.

  Daniel Pipes

  Smart, Lebanon, Strategy

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• The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.

  Scott Rudin

  Beautiful, Smart, Writing

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• But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Smart, Decision, Looks

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