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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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• I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians. They may think that they are very smart about everything because they made millions of dollars by digging a hole in the ground and finding oil, but the talent and luck needed to become rich are not the same talent and luck needed to succeed on Parliament Hill.

  Jean Chretien

  Smart, Thinking, Digging A Hole

  "Straight from the Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, 1985.

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• You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.

  Mike Rowe

  Smart, Long, People

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Smart, Dumb, Actresses

  "Rarely-Before-Seen Marilyn Monroe Photos Show Sex Symbol Just Before She Died" by Catherine Donaldson-Evans, www.foxnews.com. May 30, 2007.

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• As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it - it was written by very smart people, it's served us well for over two hundred years, and besides, we're not using it anymore.

  Jay Leno

  Smart, Thinking, Two

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• M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

  Anne Carson

  Smart, Blindness

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.20, Vintage

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• Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.

  Steven Weber

  Smart, Commitment, Space

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• "You were designed to be very smart, Max," she told me. "We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing." "And yet I still can't program my DVD player," I said.

  James Patterson

  Smart, Player, Dvds

  "Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports". May 29, 2007, May 29, 2007.

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• You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.

  Susan Orlean

  Crazy, Smart, Thinking

  "Stay Out of My Dropbox" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 18, 2011.

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• I know that I present very - they say that I present very, very calm and very, very smart, very articulate, elegant. Yeah. And I go, 'Brilliant teams of makeup and wardrobe happened to dress me and clothe me and put my face on and do my hair. And then these brilliant teams of writers give me words to speak. I just need to make sure that I have them all in this combination in my body, in my being, and then I get to do it on camera, in front of a brilliant team of camera workers who really know how to like me and make me sound good.' So I'm just really a dork in real life.

  Tamlyn Tomita

  Real, Smart, Team

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

  Jared Leto

  Mother, Smart, Command

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• My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.

  Queen Latifah

  Mom, Smart, Creative

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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.

  Smart, Team, Writing

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• My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve.

  Ernest Gallo

  Life, Change, Teacher

  "ERNEST GALLO: 1909-2007 / With brother, he created world's biggest winery" by W. Blake Gray, Steve Rubenstein, www.sfgate.com. March 7, 2007.

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• Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Life, Horse, Smart

  Selma Lagerlöf (2012). “Gösta Berling's Saga”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.

  Suzanne Vega

  Song, Smart, Writing

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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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• I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.

  Corra May Harris

  Smart, Views, Stupidity

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• I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

  Dolly Parton

  Smart, People, Smart People

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• Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a lot more time available. I think that makes a huge difference. I think he instinctively knows how to make films and all the different ways that you can make stuff. He's very gadget-wise, and he's very smart about all the different things that are available to a filmmaker nowadays, and he makes very good use of them. He has a theater in his house, for God's sake. It has proper curtains on it and everything. It's pretty wild.

  Michael Madsen

  God, Wise, Smart

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. April 14, 2004.

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• I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

  Julia Roberts

  Smart, Parent, Life Experience

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts Interview LARRY CROWNE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 28, 2011.

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• I don't care. I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that. Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview--they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.

  Aidan Quinn

  Smart, Stupid, Mean

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• To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

  Lena Olin

  Smart, Actors, Idiot

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• I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.

  Cindy Sherman

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• This group right here is one of the most underrated groups in football. We don’t talk enough about this group. Very smart, they don’t leave the field, they play every single down, and they can cover backs and tight ends out of the backfield. This group is special.

  Willie McGinest

  Football, Smart, Play

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