“When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage. I've learned that from my husband. In the French culture, they talk politics.” KindAmericaCultureHusbandNewsSmartInternationalI've LearnedMy HusbandCoverageReally SmartNews CoverageFrench Culture Author:Kim Raver
“An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.” CultureFunAmountAchievementSmartExcellenceEmployeeMediocrityRetail Author:Kip Tindell
“With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.” ThinkingImportantTodayCultureSocialMediaHugeInternetSmartSocial MediaStayingOnline Author:G. Hannelius
“I'm not anti-Muslim, I'm not anti-immigration; I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.” ProblemBigsCultureCitiesMillionsSmartBiggerImmigrationImmigrantsBig ProblemsVery Smart Author:Pim Fortuyn
“In our culture, we have smart people and then we have the hot people. And the hot people have all the sex, and the smart people don't.” PeopleCultureSexSmartHotSmart People Author:Mark Haskell Smith
“We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.” PersonsCultureOpportunityWillingSmartDollarsBoringPursuitDumbFascinatingLots Of MoneyReally SmartReally Dumb Author:Fran Lebowitz
“If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.” IfsEnoughCultureBlackSmartRapMasculinityCaricaturesGangstaBlack CultureKkkGangsta Rap Author:Jackson Katz
“The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart lawyers. They may say a brilliant lawyer. They'll talk about a creative artist. Smart is saved for scientists. It just is. It's not even really applied to medical doctors. It applies to scientists in the lab figuring out what hadn't been figured out before.” IfsMayArtistCultureCreativeSmartDoctorsScientistProfessionBrilliantLawyerMedicalSavedLabsCreative ArtCreative ArtistsMedical Doctor Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson