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“We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what's coming up next.”

People Needs Giving Enough Next Steps Movement Smart Have Faith Being Smart

Author:Joan Baez

“Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.”

Home Funny Television Smart Humorous Murder Witty

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“I'm always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.”

People Talent Smart Partners

Author:Russell Simmons

“One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends.”

Can Do Enemy Smart Harm Fake Being Smart Fake Friends

Author:Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple; you're going to be as smart as God." We can't have that.”

Tree Smart Okay Apples Intellectualism Tree Of Knowledge

Author:Frank Zappa

“All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95% of Americans are "scientifically illiterate." That's...the same fraction...of slaves who were illiterate before the Civil War.”

People World War Passion Numbers Smart Slave Enormous Civil War Gifted Harbors Fractions Surveys Unrequited Illiterate

Author:Carl Sagan

“In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.”

World Smart Dumb Telephones Being Smart

Author:George Gilder

“Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.”

Way May Children Ideas Culture Strange Smart Adults Dumb Educate

Author:Marvin Minsky

“I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.”

People Stupid Smart Logical Stupid People Smart People

Book:Intruder

Source: Intruder

“Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.”

Practice Technology Theory Smart Preserves Revolutionary Status Quo Reactionaries Disruptive

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.”

People Done Facts Simple Team Smart Entrepreneurship Things Done Smart People Really Smart Useful Things

Author:Joel Spolsky

“Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs. The difference between the political process and an honest life is the difference between parading around waving picket signs while hollering catcalls in front of the White House and getting up in the morning to go make a living.”

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“I have always believed that most large fortunes are made by men...who tumbled into a lucky opportunity. Hard work and attention to business are necessary, but they rarely result in achieving a large fortune. Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich, he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.”

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Author:Julius Rosenwald

“If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.”

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Author:Tony Goldwyn

“So my first experience was that I had to do a reboot of my expectations. Like fantastic, great, he's young and charismatic and I was like wow, this is so disorienting, I have to reboot. In retrospect, I can see that it's really powerful that somebody [Snowden] so smart, so young, and with so much to lose risked so much.”

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Author:Laura Poitras

“I often use the iPhone as an example of how governments shape markets, because what makes the iPhone ‘smart’ and not stupid is what you can do with it. And yes, everything you can do with an iPhone was government-funded. From the Internet that allows you to surf the Web, to GPS that lets you use Google Maps, to touch screen display and even the SIRI voice activated system - all of these things were funded by Uncle Sam through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, the Navy, and even the CIA!”

“My advice for other female directors is look for people who really appreciate your vision and are willing to genuinely support you. When it comes time to taking notes on various cuts, if you have a smart producer, listen to her notes!”

People Ifs Looks Vision Support Cutting Advice Willing Directors Smart Female Appreciate Notes Various Producers Support You Appreciate You

Author:Linda Hoaglund

“I'll do more than the average actor, but I'm smart enough to know why stunt guys exist.”

Knows Enough Guy Actors Smart Average

Author:Bruce Campbell

“Great creators like Yves Saint Laurent or Jimmi Hendrix; they are people who are so smart and so sensitive. They have such a sharp vision of life that everyday life is complicated for them. They are moved and shocked with so many things that they have to make it positive with creation.”

People Vision Creation Smart Moved Everyday Saint Complicated Sensitive Everyday Life Hendrix

Author:Jalil Lespert

“You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.”

Ifs Book Ends Stupid Lucky Smart Lucky You

Author:Salman Rushdie

“It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.”

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do.”

Ifs Giving Jobs Community Authority Smart Rewards Fulfillment Providing Expertise Very Smart

Author:Mitchell Baker

“This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!”

Hard Growth Challenges Risk Hard Work Smart Lows Overcoming Difficulty Crisis Entrepreneur Credit Consumers Teamwork Unemployment Tenacious Slow Growth Work Smart Consumer Confidence

Author:Oliver DeMille

“My sophomore year I placed 2nd, and my junior and senior year - I got smart and piled up enough points between myself and second place where I didn't have to run the mile.”

Years Enough Running Smart Miles Senior Juniors Second Place Sophomore Senior Year Sophomore Year

Author:Bo Jackson

“The only thing I would change is during the summer - when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn.”

Ifs Jobs Taken Lessons Summer Smart Flying Auburn

Author:Bo Jackson

“Toughness is a good thing, yet it is considered good only in men. When a woman is tough, men can't stand it. I like being tough and smart.”

Men Smart Tough Good Things Toughness Tough Man

Author:Lillian Vernon

“One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.”

People Thinking Knows Helping Strong Challenges Player Team Cold Smart Stranger Dedicated Networking Team Player

Author:Reid Hoffman

“Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.”

Believe Mean Values Smart

Author:Phil McGraw

“You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.”

Knows Want Happens Next Smart Hardest Suspense Hardest Thing Being Smart

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Everyone thinks I'm a smart arse who can solve any bloody problem. I'm not. I'm just a very old businessman and a very experienced businessman who made every mistake in the book and can recognise one when I see one.”

Thinking Made Book Problem Mistake Smart Solve Bloody Businessman Recognise Arses

Author:John Harvey-Jones

“I love Europe, but we are still struggling with that kind of development. First of all, we don't have a smart conversation about the difference between an immigrant and a refugee. A refugee can't go back. An immigrant is someone - I chose to move to America. And I also have the option of saying hey, didn't work out, I can move back. That's a completely different story than someone who is locked in.”

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Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“The thing that has helped me the most has been surrounding myself with a strong community of people with common interests and relevant knowledge - other directors, artists, crew talent, and smart and fun people in other fields.”

People Has Beens Artist Strong Fun Interest Community Common Talent Fields Directors Smart Relevant Crew Common Interests Strong Community

Author:Liza Johnson

“It's smart to have a set of younger actors. People don't always want to look at me. They want to look at other people.”

People Want Looks Actors Smart Look At Me

Author:Bruce Campbell

“I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.”

People Should Believe Water Smart Phones Enormous Museums Protected Supplies Insidious

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The dread equation is a simplification, but it's a way to explain why we fear something so much when it is so unlikely. Part of it is the lack of control. That's why we're more scared of plane crashes than car crashes even though we know rationally which is more dangerous.”

“I can't tell you how many times I've been with very smart, knowledgeable Homeland Security experts who are essentially tasked with saving your life who do not trust you with information. They just don't. They kind of dismiss the media and the public in one fell swoop.”

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Author:Amanda Ripley

“Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games, etc. But kids are really smart, I think they know from an early age about death, this void and hole they are immediately traveling toward.”

“I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.”

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Author:David Crosby

“People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but the time comes when the smart thing for such a person to do is to let go of the fun of the art and get into the hard work of attaining and understanding that higher reality, unmixed with worldly games.”

People Wells Persons Art Hard Reality Games Fun Understanding Hard Work Fine Higher Letting Go Smart Art Is Worldly

Author:Jim Woodring

“Failure is not always a bad thing. You just have to be smart while you're in the middle of it. You're in the eye of the tornado of like disappointment to know that it's just a storm and it'll pass.”

Knows Eye Middle Smart Disappointment Storm Bad Things Being Smart Tornadoes

Author:Pharrell Williams

“"Hello" is pseudoscience. The only smart way to read it is not to believe in it, not to trust it, or to put yourself in it and imagine what's out there that you haven't been told or seen.”

Way Believe Imagine Havens Smart Hello Pseudoscience

Author:Aleksandra Mir

“...even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more.”

Trying Helping Smart Gains Being Smart Misplaced

Book:Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy

Source: Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy

“You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.”

Play Attention Audience Smart Extraordinary Dumb Equipment Blonde Being Smart Dumb Blonde

Author:Judy Holliday

“Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.”

People World Lying Culture Fool Smart Currency Navigate Smart People Simplification

Author:Terence McKenna

“Heavenly Father's interest in you does not depend on how rich or beautiful or healthy or smart you are. He sees you not as the world sees you; He sees who you really are. He looks on your heart. And He loves you because you are His child.”

World Looks Heart Children Doe Beautiful Father Interest Rich Love You Depends Healthy Smart Heavenly Heavenly Father

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with 'authenticity'-as well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common.”

Wells Might Romance Reading Nations Common Grace Smart Authenticity Obsession Curious Analysis Insightful Outsiders Jerry Hale Holden Holden Caulfield Astute

Author:Beth Bailey

“This is a competitive business - there are a lot of women who want these jobs, but experience, education, and smarts go a long way. I'm still figuring it out - I learn new things every day. Once you stop learning, you should get out of the business. It's just really about being hungry for more.”

Way Want Should Long Stills Jobs Smart Hungry New Things Long Way Figuring It

Author:Nicole Lapin

“How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?”

Ifs Knows Stupid Smart Do You Know

Author:Lou Holtz

“What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.”

Thinking Nice Degrees Smart Engineering

Author:Ato Essandoh

“I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Character Action Dark Situation Dangerous Smart Definitions Hardest Endeavor Sequence Alleys Smart People Action Movie Cinematic Dangerous Situations Dark Alleys

Author:Doug Liman

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