Best Smart Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'd always rather be lucky than smart.”

Lucky Smart

Author:Donald Luskin

“As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.”

People Thinking Stars Smart Intelligent Pops Pop Stars

Author:Adam Levine

“When I'm not working, I like to be comfortable. I do like to dress smart, but comfort is important.”

Important Comfort Comfortable Smart Dresses

Author:Richard Madden

“TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.”

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Author:Connie Nielsen

“My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.”

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Author:Frank Ocean

“I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.”

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Book:Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics

Source: Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics

“Only a life lived for others is a life worth while . I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious . I want to know God's thoughts... all the rest are details. Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office.' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives.”

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Author:Ronald Perelman

“I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.”

Ideas Asks Fun Fans Smart Good Things Meetings Plenty

Author:Tamora Pierce

“Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.”

Writing Smart Intricate

Author:Adrianne Palicki

“I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'”

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Author:Archie Panjabi

“The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept.”

Smart Strategy Exception Gaza Very Smart Lebanon

Author:Daniel Pipes

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

I Can Funny Interesting Talking Conversation Smart Intelligence Toes

Author:Megan Fox

“One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.”

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Author:Amy Ryan

“The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.”

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Author:Scott Rudin

“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.”

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Author:Kim Raver

“I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.”

People Thinking Want Young Successful Smart Feminine I Want You

Author:Portia de Rossi

“There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.”

People Thinking President Honest Smart Be Good Progressive

Author:Bernie Sanders

“But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.”

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Author:Brent Scowcroft

“I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.”

People Would Be Lines Careers Wise Smart Yoga My Friends Thrive Hanging Out Sanity Personal Life Being Smart

Author:Courtney Thorne Smith

“Most of the shows I want to do I'm not smart enough to figure out how to watch.”

Want Enough Shows Watches Figures Smart

Author:David Spade

“Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.”

Writing Trying Smart

Author:Emeli Sande

“I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.”

Way Book Travel Smart

Author:Hilary Swank

“Now, we don't get rid of it in round one because we don't think that that's politically smart, and we don't think that's the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it's going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it - voluntarily.”

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Author:Newt Gingrich

“I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me smart and then go to sleep.”

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Author:Jaden Smith

“My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.”

Thinking Republican Smart Vote Democrat Reporters

Author:Jerry Springer

“I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.”

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Author:Joel Silver

“Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.”

Thinking Poverty Cutting Smart Immigration Australia

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.”

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Author:Bob Woodward

“My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously.”

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Author:Michael Weatherly

“I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.”

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Author:Mike White

“We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.”

Ifs Want Enough Stories Bigs Film Pay Audience Smart

Author:Duncan Jones

“For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of those were smart science fiction films hitting more of a medium budget, and I desperately hope there is an audience for that kind of film because I would love that to be my next film, on that kind of scale.”

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Author:Duncan Jones

“There is an alternative. It's an old alternative. It's not for everybody. It's only for people who are smart, limited market. It's enlightenment.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.”

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Author:Jasper Fforde

“Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly. Play as often as you can Work as smart as you are able. Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.”

Heart Play Able Laughing Share Smart Live In The Moment Heartfelt

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“Work as smart as you are able.”

Able Smart Workplace

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“Smart beauty is about looking your best and feeling your best and never overpaying for it.”

Feelings Smart Overpaying

Author:Stacy London

“I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.”

Thinking House Students College Smart Harvard Phds

Author:Wendy Liebman

“In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.”

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Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.”

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Author:Matt Mullenweg

“All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.”

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Author:Michael Moritz

“My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors - that's where they come from.”

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Author:Michael Moritz

“Men always look smart in a well-fitted, tailored suit. Conversely, they can be incredibly handsome in jeans combined with a cashmere jumper or a beaten-up leather jacket or even just a cotton T-shirt.”

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Author:Tamara Mellon

“I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one.”

Bigs Smart Raised Cheer

Author:Eric McCormack

“I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.”

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Author:Allison Williams

“My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.”

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Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“Look for when the environment is changing - the big shift now is mobile Internet. It's really happening big-time. The way you interact with services on a smart phone compared to the Web is quite different, so there's a huge opportunity.”

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Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.”

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Author:Matthew Perry

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