Very Smart Quotes - Page 2

• In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

  Camille Paglia

  Real, Smart, Skills

  Playboy Interview, May 1995.

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• He doesn’t look very smart,” Diesel said. “He’s not even giving me the finger.” “Can monkey’s do that?” Hal asked. Carl gave him the finger. “Cool!” Hal said.

  Janet Evanovich

  Smart, Giving, Looks

  Janet Evanovich (2009). “Plum Spooky”, p.322, Macmillan

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• Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very smart. When does geeks and nerds become autism? That's a gray area. Half the people in Silicon Valley probably have autism.

  Temple Grandin

  Jobs, Smart, Autism

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• I'm not too sure if I have a very smart approach to revealing my life. Luckily, I doubt if many people really care about my life that much.

  Stephin Merritt

  Smart, People, Doubt

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• Alexander Liberman was very smart, very elegant. At the end, he didn't have much patience with me because I was a young, anxious, nervous photographer. I worried that I was copying too many other people. And he said, "It's all right to copy people, as long as the people you copy are good and you copy them well."

  Jerry Schatzberg

  Smart, Long, People

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• I've done my share of reading about Abraham Lincoln, throughout my life, and he wasn't always carved in stone. He was a human being. He was a very thoughtful, self-educated, complex, magnanimous human being, who was very, very strong, very smart and very canny, with a very strong sense of what was right and what was wrong. Through all that, he's become an icon, over the years, and some of his warmth and humanity has been lost. You don't tend to think of Lincoln as this warm, funny person, but he was.

  Billy Campbell

  Strong, Smart, Reading

  Source: collider.com

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• I saw Nader shortly before the election and - I voted him the time before, because I liked the sort of long-term strategy of building a viable third party. So, okay, we'll get enough votes, you get a little bit more money, and maybe, if there's continued growth, then maybe eventually there's hope for a viable, legitimate third party. I think the reason why I didn't vote for him last time was because we tried that and it didn't work. Ralph Nader is a very smart guy, and I think he's got a lot of good ideas.

  Aaron McGruder

  Smart, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding.

  Steig Larsson

  Smart, Long, People

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• Hillary called and it was a lovely call. And it was a tough call for her. I mean, I can imagine. Tougher for her than it would have been for me and for me, it would have been very, very difficult. She couldn`t have been nicer. She just said, "Congratulations, Donald.
  Well done." And I said, "I want to thank you very much. You were a great competitor." She`s very strong and very smart.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Smart, Congratulations

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think that what I learned then, I didn't know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to see somebody who was a writer, a great poet, and very smart-faced. Suddenly Pasolini becomes a director, so he has to invent cinema. It was like watching the invention of cinema. But I found out that Pasolini taught me a lot. It was, especially, the kind of respect that he had for reality. He had kind of epiphanies in his movies, like when a moment becomes full of grace, and it is like as if it was the most important moment in the life of a character.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Character, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My dad was the first one who said, 'You're going to end up behind the plate because you've got a very good arm and you're very smart when it comes to calling a game.'

  Jorge Posada

  Dad, Smart, Games

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• Any good movie or script usually, if they're doing their job, gives the highest platform possible for an actor to leap off of, and that script was very high up there. It was a very smart, tight script. There was a lot of improv, as well, once we got to the set, but a lot of the original script was also in there.

  Justin Theroux

  Jobs, Smart, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.

  Lady Gaga

  Smart, School, Thinking

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• I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.

  Natalie Maines

  Smart, Moving, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My daughter Cosma is a very popular actress in Germany. She also organizes these wonderful open-air parties. She has a wonderful teacher, she's very smart. And I sometimes perform at her festivals.

  Nina Hagen

  Daughter, Teacher, Smart

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• Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Smart, Writing, Opportunity

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, uk.businessinsider.com. August 5, 2015.

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• From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on... on the look for ah, that kind of person.

  Bill Gates

  Smart, People, Growth

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• When you success you have to be very smart and be extra focused and protect your surroundings.

  DJ Khaled

  Smart, Surroundings, Protect

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• I was watching an interview with Martin Scorcese concerning Raging Bull, which is one of my favorite films, and he was talking about how he'd worked with a lot of guys who weren't quote-unquote "actors," like Joe Pesce and Frank Vincent. Scorcese was very smart in the way that he cast, because you don't know where you're going to find the right person who can carry a role and summon that emotion you're looking for.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Smart, Talking, Guy

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• When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and I said, "Novels," and she said, "You should be writing them then." Memoir never even occurred to me. I think I was afraid of nonfiction and I was afraid of navel-gazing, and of being seen.

  Melissa Febos

  Smart, Writing, College

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Smart, People, Cautiousness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think most importantly the reason we've been on the upswing is Ring of Honor has been very smart about the speed of its growth. ROH is not a company that says ok we're going to throw all this money in and let's just go for it. ROH has the business approach of slow but steady.

  Adam Cole

  Smart, Thinking, Growth

  Source: 411mania.com

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• They [Chinese] have very smart, experienced people. I don't want to paint them all with the same brush. There was a little bit of a feeling that the stock market, which went from something like $4 trillion in valuation to $10 trillion, that the Chinese wanted that.

  Jamie Dimon

  Smart, People, Feelings

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• Mark [Duplass] is the same person that I met on day one. He's a very smart, savvy, creative guy. If you ever want a champion on your side, it's Mark.

  Jackie Schaffer

  Smart, Your Side, Creative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

  Rob Bell

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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