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Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at."When ...

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David SedarisMe Talk Pretty One Day

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never h...

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Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breakin...

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I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart peop...

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No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be sma...

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The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're enc...

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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game...

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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect...

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I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

This is what we call smart power. Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and securit...

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There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all...

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Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's becau...

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Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate ...

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Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, t...

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In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't valu...

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Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo...

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The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points a...

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When did you get so clever?""When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

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

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If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart,...

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There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard t...

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A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not ...

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Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talente...

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‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, educa...

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What a piece of garbage this smart car is. There's a commercial - the smart car has zero percent int...

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I've always thought my strengths were I'm smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely stru...

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I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are ...

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Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be...

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There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all...

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There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.

Please kiss that girl a million times.

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't...

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It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing a...

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After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professiona...

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I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conver...

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Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they...

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I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being ...

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Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?

A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you liste...

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Miles DavisMiles: The Autobiography

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institut...

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If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

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Oscar WildeLord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay...

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A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a...

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From the boys' point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organ...

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You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we ...

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The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and a...

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Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, ...

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There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and s...

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In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that ...

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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of ridin...

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Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

College was for people who didn’t know they were smart.

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically g...

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I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are rea...

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Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

A smart model is a good model.

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so sm...

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But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer bra...

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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teach...

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I'm a human being and I've got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me that he doesn't know i...

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Alan SillitoeThe Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, a...

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It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more yo...

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Alisa ValdesThe Dirty Girls Social Club

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not ...

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The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex...

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Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement -...

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Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness...

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When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'J...

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It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fra...

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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the i...

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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran...

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Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.

Soon, I'm going to meet somebody around my own age, and she's going to be smart and beautiful, and I...

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I don't look at myself as a hero or smart person. I have a seventh-grade education, but I've had a l...

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Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are al...

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When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you'...

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For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system...

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I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge sh...

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I admired shows like 'Six Feet Under.' That was an amazing show. Never boring, always inventive, sma...

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Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, the...

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Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.

The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Leba...

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