“Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.” PeopleWellsMayStatesSchoolDecisionUnitedRaceUnited StatesCommunicationBrokenIntelligentCourtSupremeSupreme CourtSegregationPublic SchoolBroken Down Author:Benjamin E. Mays
“We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.” PeopleLittlesWantedBitsComedyElementsLittle BitIntelligentEngagedTragic Author:Alice Lowe
“I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.” PeopleWritingEnoughFiguresReaderIdealsLaborIntelligentLazy Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez
“I think that humans are also set up to survive. We're not as small as rats, but we make up for that by being intelligent enough to make our own hiding places and to adapt to new habitats, even if they are changing very quickly. We have an enormous population, and can afford to lose billions of people without suffering very much as a species. Indeed, some would say losing five billion people would be good for the planet - I disagree with them, but can't deny that we would do just fine if there were two billion of us or even one billion.” PeopleIfsThinkingHumansTwoEnoughWould BeSufferingLosesFivePlanetsFineLosingIntelligentSpeciesPopulationDenyBe GoodBillionsEnormousHidingDisagreeRatsHabitatHiding Place Author:Annalee Newitz
“I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.” PeopleFeelsSometimesIntelligentCraziest Author:Taryn Manning
“The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or say three intelligent things. And that gets people talking.” PeopleIfsStoriesThreeAsksFunTalkingIntelligentJournalismPeople TalkingFun Things Author:Joel Stein
“Religions have a special responsibility to encourage and inspire people to love planet earth, which as far as we know, is the only place in the cosmos that works in such a harmonious way that it can support intelligent life.” PeopleKnowsWayEarthResponsibilitySupportSpecialInspirePlanetsIntelligentCosmosHarmoniousPlanet EarthIntelligent Life Author:Thomas Keating
“I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.” PeopleKnowsAttitudeIntelligentPlentyMetalsHyperMachoSuccubusDumbasses Author:Blake Judd
“I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.” PeopleMenWantMindPersonsBlackWhiteHalfSonReturnDaughterMen And WomenIntelligentBrownBlack PeopleIntroducingGrandchildrenMarryingKinkySon And Daughter Author:Muhammad Ali
“One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a young, unmarried girl have a baby she didn't want and which would, therefore, grow up unloved and probably turn out to be a criminal. I gave an answer which apparently she hadn't considered. I told her there were literally millions of people in this country who wanted but could not have children and who waited eagerly, sometimes for years, to adopt the baby she had described.” PeopleIfsWantYearsChildrenCountrySometimesWantedYoungTurnsGirlGrowsAnswersMillionsGrowing UpBabyOne DayConcernedIntelligentCriminalsAbortionSincerelyUnlovedUnmarriedYoung Ladies Author:Ronald Reagan
“I am not proposing to replace war with peace. I propose to replace war with a smarter fight. A fight using other instruments, more intelligent instruments to convince people not to use drugs.” PeopleWarUseFightingDrugIntelligentInstrumentsConvinceSmarterPropose Author:Fernando Henrique Cardoso
“The ecological challenges we face are the result of billions of ecologically ignorant decisions made by billions of people over centuries. To address the climate crisis, we now need billions of people to make ecologically intelligent decisions.” PeopleNeedsMadeFacesChallengesDecisionResultsCenturyIntelligentCrisisClimateBillionsIgnorantAddressesEcologicalDecisions MadeChallenges We Face Author:Allen Hershkowitz
“People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to be the ambassador of everything. I learned this from Elena Poniatowska - intelligent woman, great lady, one of my heroes, one of my spiritual mentors, I love her. Someone is in this big museum and they ask her, "Elenita, what do you think about Mexican women . . ." And she says, "I haven't a clue!"” PeopleThinkingWantBigsHappensSpiritualAsksHavensHeroEuropeIntelligentMuseumsMentorClueMexicanAmbassadorsMy HeroIntelligent Women Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I did get good enough to get on HBO's Young Comedians Special, but I certainly wasn't the person who got launched off of HBO's Young Comedians Special. That would be Ray Romano that year. I had some semi-intelligent jokes, but when people would see me, they would think, "Oh, that's a good writer." No one would ever have said, "Oh, that's a good performer."” PeopleThinkingYearsPersonsSaidEnoughWould BeYoungSpecialJokesIntelligentComedianGood EnoughPerformersRaysGood WritersHbo Author:Judd Apatow
“So unless we come together as a people and stop our foolish beefing among each other, sit down like intelligent men and women and settle the things that divide us from each other, then come together like a solid wall and we could make something happen.” PeopleMenHappensTogetherWallMen And WomenIntelligentFoolishThings HappenSettlingDividesIntelligent Man Author:Louis Farrakhan
“My whole thing is I don't take from Castro being an intelligent man as long as he is doing the thing that needs to be done. But the thing is at the end of the day you're not bettering the island. You're only making it worse. So, for me it's just making sure that people have the right to speak their minds and have an opportunity in life to better their life.” PeopleMenNeedsMindLongEndsDoneWholeOpportunitySpeakIntelligentIslandsThe End Of The DayCastroIntelligent Man Author:Pitbull
“Our brain is almost the same as the chimps', but we have language, we have electronic communications, we've put people on the moon - we are immensely more intelligent. And yet: how come the being with the most extraordinary intellect ever is destroying its only planet?” PeopleLanguageBrainPlanetsCommunicationMoonIntelligentExtraordinaryIntellectDestroyingElectronic Communication Author:Jane Goodall
“Not only have we paid the price with our names in ink, but we have also paid in blood. And they can't say that black people can't be intelligent, because going back to Africa, in Guinea, there are almost 4 million people there and what he, President [Sekou] Toure, is doing to educate the people: as long as the French people had it they weren't doing a thing that is being done now.” PeopleLongDoneNamesBlackPresidentMillionsBloodPaidIntelligentBlack PeopleEducateInkBeing DoneGuinea Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].” PeopleYearsChildrenAmericaThreeSpeakLanguageBlackMetsIntelligentHypocrisyBlack PeopleElevenSpeak EnglishGuinea Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“The word 'when' is so important for a people, for an individual! If an individual thinks he won't do it, he'll never do it. Even if he's highly intelligent, even if he has countless talents.” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantIndividualTalentIntelligentHighly Intelligent Author:Indira Gandhi
“A lot of mythology arose after [Mahatma Gandhi] death. But the fact remains that he was an exceptional man, terribly intelligent, with tremendous intuition for people, and a great instinct for what was right.” PeopleMenFactsIntelligentRemainsInstinctIntuitionMythologyExceptional Author:Indira Gandhi
“I must say, the people who started this whole Masterclass series have been very helpful and very intelligent to point out certain things and also give me some guidance, "isn't there something missing, shouldn't we address this or that?" so it's not completely alone out of the blue. It's very well thought through.” PeopleGivingWellsHas BeensWholeCertainMissingGive MeIntelligentBlueSeriesGuidanceAddressesHelpful Author:Werner Herzog
“I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression not 100 or 10 years from now, but right now, you're going to find your talk is going to fall upon sympathetic ears.” PeopleThinkingShouldYearsPersonsFallTeachingRight NowEarsIntelligentAgreeOppressionOppressedSympatheticRelievedIntelligent Person Author:Malcolm X
“I came to realize,people who had Chinese accents will continue to have Chinese accents in America are treated as being stupid or not as intelligent as an English speaker who is fluent with an American accent - I came to realize why. But it's always fascinated me how quickly you can change where you stand with another human being just based on how you speak.” PeopleHumansAmericaSpeakRealizingHuman BeingsStupidIntelligentTreatedChineseFascinatedSpeakersAccentsFluentWhere You StandBeing Stupid Author:Trevor Noah
“Do you know that Yahya Khan's first victim was not to have been Mujib [ Rahman] but myself? Many people in my party were in prison, and at the end of 1970, November 5, 1970, to be exact, he had said to Mujib, "Should I arrest Bhutto or not?" Look, the only reason why he reversed his schedule was that in West Pakistan he couldn't control the situation as in East Pakistan. Besides Mujib has never been intelligent - he let himself be backed into a corner.” PeopleKnowsShouldFirstsLooksHas BeensSaidEndsReasonPartySituationIntelligentVictimPrisonWestCornersEastReason WhyDo You KnowShould ISchedulesPakistanNovemberBhutto Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“Fox gets two million viewers a night, and MSNBC gets one. It's four million people, five million people, and 130 million people are going to vote. There are an awful lot of voters, and an awful lot of politically engaged, intelligent people who are not hanging on whatever happens on Bill O'Reilly or Rachel Maddow.” PeopleTwoHappensNightMillionsFiveFourVoteIntelligentBillsAwfulEngagedVotersFoxesViewersWhatever HappensHanging OnBill O Reilly Author:William Kristol
“I don't view myself as a particularly intelligent people, but I do have one ability that I've demonstrated over and over again, that's helped me see things that other people for whatever reason have not seen. That's that most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. I guess it could be stated that most people only hear the music, not the lyrics of human events.” PeopleWantHumansReasonAbilityViewsEventsIntelligentConventionalConventional Wisdom Author:Vincent Bugliosi
“In Obama's world, it's Fox News and me that are the reason the Republican base doesn't like him. It can't possibly be that those people actually pay attention, are actually intelligent, informed, and they actually disagree with what he's doing. It can't be that because you are not that smart and independently thinkable. You're like the Democrat base. You're bunch of idiots who only know and do and believe what you're told. There may be a degree of exaggeration in there, but that is exactly how the left looks at their voters, and that's how they look at the whole population.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveLooksMayReasonWholeLeftPayAttentionRepublicanDegreesNewsSmartIntelligentDemocratPopulationBunchPay AttentionIdiotVotersDisagreeFoxesExaggerationFox NewsThinkable Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When I first got money, I went through it like everybody else, because I didn't know. But, right now, I've educated myself and placed smart people around me. I surrounded myself with people who not only are intelligent and effective about finances, taxes, and money management, but they (also) love me.” PeopleKnowsFirstsRight NowTaxesSmartIntelligentManagementFinanceEducatedSmart PeopleMoney Management Author:Steve Harvey
“I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I'm a shrinking violet because I don't want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.” PeopleKnowsWantLooksLittlesFoolIntelligentVioletShrinking Author:Bette Midler
“I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.” PeopleThinkingIntelligentCaptives Author:Jane Jacobs
“I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than I, but who just can't write either fiction or drama. It's like any art-form. In order for talent to be developed, crafted, it's got to be there in the first place.” PeopleKnowsWritingFirstsArtFormOrderCoursesFictionSunCreativeTalentDramaIntelligentCreative Writing Author:Suhayl Saadi
“I'll start with the reality. If we're having problems nationally, we're having problems on the state level and then on the local level, what message is that sending to Black people who are not supposed to be intelligent but the grassroots understand? What that means in this time, as in the time of Moses, it means buckle on your boots and shoes and let's get the hell out of here. As the boys said in the movie; it's time to get out.” PeopleMeanProblemRealityBlackBoysHellIntelligentBlack PeopleMoses Author:Louis Farrakhan
“When God gives you a door, if you want access, you go through that door. People didn't like Jesus. Oh, they had all kind of reasons to hate him but Jesus said, "I am the door. Any man who enters must come by me. If you don't come by me," he said, "you're a thief and a robber." Well, if Omarosa Manigault is the door to Donald Trump, well I kind of like that door. That's a pretty door. That's an intelligent door. That's a spiritually rooted door.” PeopleMenGivingKindReasonHateJesusIntelligentAll Kinds Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I urge people not to think in terms of "solutions," but in terms of intelligent responses to the quandaries and predicaments that we face. And there are intelligent responses that we can bring forth. But when I hear the word "solution," I always suspect that there's a hidden agenda there. And the hidden agenda is: "Please, can you please tell us how we can keep on living exactly the way we're living now, without having to really change our behavior very much?" And that's sort of what's going on in this country. And it's not going to work.” PeopleThinkingCountryTermBehaviorSolutionsIntelligentResponseGoing To Work Author:James Howard Kunstler
“I wouldn't say I'm the "nice" judge, but I was certainly reminded a couple of times that this is for a million dollars. There's one thing to just do a good dance, but I had to ask myself, "Is that the million-dollar dance?" There are certain dances that people prefer, and I preferred the intelligent and smart choreography.” PeopleNiceJudgingCoupleSmartIntelligentChoreography Author:Derek Hough
“A lot of times, when you're acting, you have to explain things to the audience, and it's boring work to do that. It's really hard to make that interesting. I like the discovery of characters. I think people are smart. Audiences are intelligent and can figure things out by just watching behaviors.” PeopleThinkingCharacterInterestingActingAudienceBehaviorSmartIntelligentBoring Author:Andie MacDowell
“We have to be emotionally intelligent. It also means that what works one day may not work the next or what works for one group of people many not work for another. I love managerial leadership because it is dynamic. The implication is that we have to stay curious about what compels, what motivates, what inspires, what relates, and what energizes.” PeopleMeanInspireOne DayIntelligentCurious Author:Chip Espinoza
“From the public's perspective, they like to see guys that go out there and stand. Now, if you happen to be one of those two athletes that are standing out there and trading with each other, afterwards you would disagree with those people. The spectators are not on the receiving end of all those strikes. I have young guys who say, "I like to stand and trade." I say, "Really? Then you are not a very intelligent fighter."” PeopleGuyPerspectiveIntelligentTradeAthleteFighterDisagreeStanding OutTrading Author:Dan Severn
“The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn't care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don't know where to find these people. Do you?” PeopleWorldCareIntelligentCynicalSupporterObnoxious Author:Gene Weingarten
“I'm naturally inclined to want to be funny and make people laugh, and that's what I want to do with my life. I also want to do it on an intelligent level. I want to kill the clown but I also want to preserve the comedian.” PeopleLaughingIntelligentComedianClownMaking People Laugh Author:Casey Neistat
“That's something you can't get off the wires in New York is people providing intelligent coverage of what your theater company in Podunk is up to. Many of the people who write what we call amateur criticism are professionals in anything other than name and receiving a paycheck. Very often, they know more than the professional critic who might be writing for their local newspaper. So, really, I'm all for it. It's changing the playing field, it's shaking things up, it's going to make the critical environment a healthier environment.” PeopleWritingEnvironmentCriticismIntelligentCriticsWireShaking Author:Terry Teachout
“I think the smart people will get even smarter, and the dumb people will get even dumber. But I think they all will enjoy A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila, no matter how you slice it. You know, we keep eating it up. Some of the most intelligent people I know cannot get enough of it. That's a dangerous thing.” PeopleThinkingEnoughEnjoyDangerousEatingSmartIntelligentDumbSmart PeopleTequilaDumb People Author:Joel McHale
“Americans are not terribly intelligent people. They need to read important things several times.” PeopleImportantIntelligent Author:Ted Rall
“I have to remind myself - I think the population of the United States has been subjected to the most sophisticated form of propaganda and mind control that any group of people has been exposed to in a very, very long time. It's difficult for people in this country to get any kind of factual information and to make intelligent decisions based on them.” PeopleThinkingMindKindLongCountryDifficultDecisionIntelligentPropagandaSophisticatedMind ControlFactual Author:Aaron McGruder
“An intelligent sociopath can learn the rules about what's good and what's bad, what people see as good and bad. But they don't get that intervening sense of guilt, that pang of conscience, on account of it. So they tend to know what's wrong or right, they just don't care. That's another thing that they can use against us: that we do care. We're predictable in that.” PeopleCareConscienceIntelligentGuiltGood And BadPredictableSociopath Author:Martha Stout
“We have friends who don't use psychoactive materials but who are still interested in how the brain works and psychology and spiritual training. It's a very large and very intelligent bunch of people. We have two big parties each year where people bring food and drink and get to know each other. It makes a very good party.” PeopleSpiritualPartyBrainPsychologyDrinkTrainingIntelligentVery Good Author:Ann Shulgin
“A lot of loud people have been talking over the years; they have these huge voices but don't say much. I'm sure there are a lot of really quiet people who have a lot more intelligent things to say than the loud people.” PeopleQuietIntelligent Author:Patrick Watson
“I am really interested in the idea that art can reach wider, can go further, can go beyond the art world, why not? People are intelligent, people are visually intelligent, and why shouldn't the work be able to engage some of that?” PeopleWorldArtIntelligent Author:Anish Kapoor
“There are a few things that tend to infuriate me. One is ignorance, because I have become accustomed to speaking to very intelligent people like Gore Vidal and Al Franken on a regular basis, since dating Bill Maher.” PeopleIgnoranceDatingIntelligent Author:Karrine Steffans