“I don't think I'm a witty person. To me, a witty person is a funny person who is also a smart person. My friend David Rakoff, who died a few years ago, he was a witty person. Fran Lebowitz is a witty person. I don't think there are that many witty people around, so you tend to notice them when they do come around. I don't consider myself to be that.” PeopleThinkingSmartWitty Author:David Sedaris
“It really helped to have someone whose taste I really trusted who I knew was really smart and a really good writer. Sometimes I find it hard to judge my own work so it was good to have someone who could look at it. It was like, "Oh, she likes it, then it's good."” SometimesJudgingSmartTrustedReally Smart Author:Kumail Nanjiani
“Donald Trump said that his plan now is to just let Obamacare fail. He's not gonna own it. He's just gonna let it fail. Which he's been saying for months. He said, you know, the smart thing politically for him to do is to let it fail and let the Democrats absorb all the blame.” FailingSmartBlameDemocrat Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If you're dumb enough to make me talk I'm smart enough to speak.” EnoughSpeakSmartDumb Author:Susan Messing
“Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason. The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear. If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.” PeopleMenKindReasonHatePowerfulFeminismSmartFeministUglyYoung WomenStereotypeInfluentialHate MeReally SmartInfluential People Author:Jessica Valenti
“I've found that there's a pretty wide range of silly. I don't want to do outright parody, because I like keeping my own characters and stories at the core of the books. And to be honest, I'm not smart enough to do the kind of wickedly sharp satire you get from someone like Pratchett.” KindBookEnoughCharacterHonestSmartSillyBeing HonestSatire Author:Jim C. Hines
“Here`s a guy who says he`s a great businessman. But it seems like a lot of Trump's business is built around stiffing small businesses and workers out of what he owes them, work they`ve done. He thinks that`s cute or smart or funny to basically not pay somebody who`s done work for him and say go ahead and sue me because I`ve got more money than you and you can`t do anything about it.” ThinkingDoneGuySmartCuteBusinessmanSmall BusinessGreat Business Author:Barack Obama
“I mean, that was - that was some articles in Breitbart. It wasn`t Steve Bannon. The guy I know is a guy that isn`t any of those things. He is a guy who is pretty smart, very temperate.” MeanGuySmart Author:Reince Priebus
“People get into stand-up comedy by and large because they're smart and they have a perspective.” PeopleComedyPerspectiveSmart Author:Dana Gould
“I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.” PeopleThinkingWholeCultureSeriousOughtHealthySmartGunIntelligenceDiscussionSmokingYoutubeSmart PeopleProliferationReally SmartCelebrity Culture Author:Stephen King
“We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.” ThinkingHardLeftTalentElementsSmartCan't ChangeLeft Handed Author:Stephen King
“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
“My wife Jennifer Todd, who's a producer. She runs Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's company, and she produced Memento, and Boiler Room, and Prime, and Across the Universe... and Alice in Wonderland... She's really smart, and very helpful. That was nice, because I was super neurotic and worried.” RunningUniverseNiceWifeSmartMy WifeProducersWorriedHelpfulNeuroticJenniferReally SmartDamonMementoBoiler Author:Chris Messina
“I was reading through all these NSA programs that Snowden has revealed, and one of the ones that fascinated me was that smart TVs can be used to look at you in your room. That is totally like the telescreen from 1984. It's not sort of like it, it's not a lot like it, it is it. And the ability of the NSA to turn on your cell phone, even if it's powered down, and listen to you in your home - that's insane to me. People had been warning that 1984 was just around the corner. Well, it has arrived, and Snowden has proven that.” PeopleHomeReadingAbilitySmartProgramInsaneCell Phone Author:Ted Rall
“To get large groups of people to dance, there needs to be something accessible about the music. The beat can't be too esoteric, but unless we're talking about prog or etherealist composition, I think there's something simplistic about most music. What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice? Those people aren't really listening; they're judging a song off of a beat, off of a pulse.” PeopleThinkingSongChoicesSimpleJudgingListeningSmartSimplicityInsaneComposition Author:Dan Deacon
“I saw Nader shortly before the election and - I voted him the time before, because I liked the sort of long-term strategy of building a viable third party. So, okay, we'll get enough votes, you get a little bit more money, and maybe, if there's continued growth, then maybe eventually there's hope for a viable, legitimate third party. I think the reason why I didn't vote for him last time was because we tried that and it didn't work. Ralph Nader is a very smart guy, and I think he's got a lot of good ideas.” ThinkingReasonEnoughGuyGrowthPartyBuildingSmartOkayVoteElectionStrategyLast TimeVery Smart Author:Aaron McGruder
“To learn to be charming is fairly easy - you can teach somebody to be charming and to learn human emotions - or to learn the behaviors that go with human emotions. A sociopath, a smart one, will study the way we emote, and will learn how to do that quite effectively.” EasyEmotionTeachStudyBehaviorSmartCharmingSociopath Author:Martha Stout
“The perfect victim, from the sociopath's point of view, is the person who is smart enough and capable enough to do him some good in the world and who is also fun to manipulate. How much fun is it to manipulate someone who is stupid and incompetent?” WorldEnoughFunPerfectStupidCapableSmartVictimPoint Of ViewManipulate Author:Martha Stout
“I've done my share of reading about Abraham Lincoln, throughout my life, and he wasn't always carved in stone. He was a human being. He was a very thoughtful, self-educated, complex, magnanimous human being, who was very, very strong, very smart and very canny, with a very strong sense of what was right and what was wrong. Through all that, he's become an icon, over the years, and some of his warmth and humanity has been lost. You don't tend to think of Lincoln as this warm, funny person, but he was.” ThinkingDoneHumanityReadingStrongShareSmartThoughtfulWarmthVery StrongVery Smart Author:Billy Campbell
“What I advocate for is that, as soon as we get to the point when artificial intelligence can take off and be as smart, or even 10 times more intelligent than us, we stop that research and we have the research of cranial implant technology or the brainwave. And we make that so good so that, when artificial intelligence actually decides - when we actually decide to switch the on-button - human beings will also be a part of that intelligence. We will be merged, basically directly.” TechnologySmartIntelligentArtificial Intelligence Author:Zoltan Istvan
“Once you've created an intelligence so smart, the real job of that intelligence is to protect itself from other intelligences becoming more intelligent than it. It's just kind of like human beings. The way you look at money or the way you look at the success of your child, you always want to make sure that as far as it gets, it can protect itself and continue forward. So I think any type of intelligence, no matter what it is, is going to have this very basic principle to protect the power that it has gained.” ThinkingKindChildrenRealProtectSmartIntelligentOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Zoltan Istvan
“Ideally, I'd prefer never having to be in a test-screening environment. Some famous director said "The group is smart, the individuals are stupid," about the experience of a test screening.” IndividualEnvironmentStupidSmart Author:Tamara Jenkins
“The gamers are smart. They see right through the moral scale. Actually, with Dragon Age, I really liked the system the team came up with. It reflects what was important about the game, and that was the character relationships. It didn't really matter what the world thought of you, but it mattered what the person standing next to you thought of you.” WorldImportantCharacterAgeMoralTeamSmartGamer Author:Greg Zeschuk
“Alexander Liberman was very smart, very elegant. At the end, he didn't have much patience with me because I was a young, anxious, nervous photographer. I worried that I was copying too many other people. And he said, "It's all right to copy people, as long as the people you copy are good and you copy them well."” PeopleLongSmartPhotographerNervousWorriedAnxiousVery Smart Author:Jerry Schatzberg
“The cat and mouse game is smart, but people want to see fighters who come to win, or do not wait to go to the judges. When the fight goes all the way, they see the spirit of the person that wants to win.” PeopleSpiritFightingWinningWaitingJudgingSmartCatFighterMice Author:Evander Holyfield
“You have to train smart. There is always a risk of over-training or training beyond what your body is able to recover from, and that leads to injuries.” RiskSmartTrainingTrainInjury Author:Brock Lesnar
“Some people think they are such geniuses and just thought of that. They think they are so smart, like they say "All this talk about Kurt Vile and no one asks him where he got his stupid name from," or, "No one asks where he stole his name from." And I'm like, "Oh, you're a genius."” PeopleThinkingStupidGeniusSmart Author:Kurt Vile
“I'm not too sure if I have a very smart approach to revealing my life. Luckily, I doubt if many people really care about my life that much.” PeopleCareDoubtSmartVery Smart Author:Stephin Merritt
“I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving, I was going to eat the next day. I came to Hollywood wanting a career that had longevity, and I wasn't afraid to take risks because I had a dollar in the bank. I wasn't driven by money as much as I was driven by making a successful transition. And I was smart enough to know that I certainly didn't have all the answers and I needed to surround myself with smart people and be willing to take risks and be willing to fail.” PeopleEnoughSuccessfulFailingRiskSmartDrivenSurroundLongevitySmart People Author:Dwayne Johnson
“Most of the people I know who smoke marijuana are not very bright and what they talk about when they're stoned, they think they're being really smart and insightful, but they just sound idiotic.” PeopleThinkingSmartInsightfulBeing RealMarijuanaIdioticReally Smart Author:Andie MacDowell
“I think being sexy and comfortable in your body is a wonderful thing, and I don't mind being acknowledged for it or appreciated for it. I know what I'm capable of. I know that I'm a relatively smart girl - I'm clever - and I feel like the sexy image only stands to make me a more powerful human being.” ThinkingMindGirlPowerfulWonderfulCapableSmartSexyCleverAppreciatedSmart Girl Author:Megan Fox
“The kids are really smart. They are sharp and they're not yet bent over by the system. I think there's a wonderful intelligence in today's youth, and it's a part of growing up.” ThinkingKidsGrowing UpWonderfulYouthSmartReally Smart Author:Tobe Hooper
“I'm sure that like anybody else, I'm probably the sum total of my life experiences. If I'm smart and I've gained any wisdom, I have learned something from each of those experiences including different jobs I've taken throughout my life. The problem is, sometimes you don't realize you've learned something until maybe years later.” DifferentSometimesProblemRealizingTakenSmartLife ExperienceI Have Learned Author:Paul F. Tompkins
“I used to see a lot of cocaine. There were journalists who used cocaine and didn't write about it and I didn't write about it. I would never do drugs, so I would always get the same response from people: "Smart kid, more for me." Whether it was a joke or sincere or both, but I was just happy not to be in there partying with the band like some of these other journalists.” PeopleWritingKidsPartyDrugSmartJokesResponseJournalistSincereCocaine Author:Cameron Crowe
“In fashion, of course, the way that women are dressed now - and also a vision of the modern woman, the woman of today. She's very feminine, but at the same time, extremely free. A Saint Laurent woman is actually very Parisian. She's not really a man's equal, she's his adversary. I worked on the catwalk with two models who worked with Yves Saint Laurent for more than 10 years. They're not just gorgeous models, they're more than that - they're very smart and very beautiful. They're more than models, they're really unique; it's personality. It's more than just fashion.” TodayBeautifulVisionModernFashionPersonalityEqualUniqueSmartSaintFeminineGorgeousAdversariesVery BeautifulVery Smart Author:Jalil Lespert
“I have a very high respect for professional comedians. What they do astonishes me. You have to be really smart and absorb everything, repackage it, bring it back to the person, and make them laugh at themselves. I can make people laugh during my talks because they didn't come to have me make them laugh. It's added value. So my job is way easier than that of a professional comic.” PeopleValuesLaughingSmartComicComedianMaking People LaughReally Smart Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Nastassja Kinski is a sweetie. She's very quiet. But smart. I hung out with her mother more than Nastassja. I think Nastassja was more worried about Paul Schrader and doing the part in The Cat People, so her mom and I kind of became friends.” PeopleThinkingKindMotherMomQuietSmartCatWorriedHung Author:John Heard
“I think that most successful artists - not always, but a lot of them, in any field - have business savvy as well and have some sense of marketing acumen. I think the key is to be good enough at it that it doesn't overwhelm your aesthetic interests, but have just enough that you make smart decisions.” ThinkingEnoughArtistInterestDecisionSuccessfulSmartMarketingBe GoodGood EnoughAestheticSavvy Author:Teddy Wayne
“I live a much better life without having to worry about people chasing me. I spent five years in prison from 21 to 26, which is probably the best part of my youth behind bars. I was in some very bad prisons overseas as well. It was not a fun life, it was a very lonely life in reality. I was a smart enough kid to know that I was going to get caught. The law sometimes sleeps, but the law never dies. I knew it was just a matter of time. I would be caught and I'd get punished and face the consequences.” PeopleSometimesEnoughRealityKidsFunSleepWorryYouthSmartConsequenceLonelyPrisonBetter Life Author:Frank Abagnale
“I think that a lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there making good women-roles don't do it, 'cause they're smart and get out. But I think there is a consequence to that. I think us gals need to stay in and just change the way it works, so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies.” ThinkingMenFilmSmartConsequenceAvoidingEnjoyableWorkaholicGood Woman Author:Joan Cusack
“We often say that someone has exceptional political or social savvy, but what specific cognitive skills allow these people to handle interpersonal situations so effectively? Typically, socially skilled people are exceptional at recognizing underlying agendas, anticipating the probable effects and likely unintended consequences of a chosen course of action. These specific capabilities determine one's "people smarts."” PeopleActionPoliticalSituationSmartConsequenceDetermineChosenCapabilityExceptionalSavvy Author:Justin Menkes
“Most people define "street smarts" as some innate ability to make savvy decisions, or one that has developed as a result of a person being confronted with very challenging circumstances in the past. I think another common term that is used is one who has amazing "business acumen." But, whatever we call it, it is always associated with some mysterious ability, only a few possess, that allow them to make better decisions than the rest of us.” PeopleThinkingPastTermChallengesAbilityDecisionCommonCircumstancesSmartMysteriousSavvy Author:Justin Menkes
“Those who have high business acumen display specific, identifiable cognitive skills that permit them to perform better than their peers. Once we understand that street smarts is skill-based, we can measure it, compare it, and improve it in the general population.” SmartCompare Author:Justin Menkes
“I'd pretty much debate anybody. I prefer to debate smart liberals. I'm not saying this about Stephen Colbert but, unfortunately, the most famous liberals generally aren't the smartest ones. I have a list of the smarter liberals I recommend.” SmartDebate Author:Ann Coulter
“I'll always remember Jean Paul Gaultier, who did a project based on Madonnas, remarking on the images, "Yours are much better." Gaultier is really smart, so it's good getting a compliment from him!” RememberSmartComplimentReally Smart Author:Miles Aldridge
“When I worked with Chevy Chase, Michael Ritchie would say, "Just ad lib and try to break me up. Just insult me. Anything." When we were doing his close-up, or when my back was to the camera, I would come up with jokes or quips or anything, to get a real reaction out of him. He was smart enough to know that was gold. So it was great fun working with him and Michael, and getting to see how the two worked together. I think Fletch and Clark Griswold were Chevy's two best roles. He's so incredibly talented and still vastly underused.” ThinkingTryingRealEnoughTogetherFunBreakSmartJokesGoldInsultQuip Author:Tim Matheson
“There is no place for fear. Stay informed, but also be smart enough to decipher what is noise and what is real. Always remembering that love can cast out all hate. I have made a commitment to teach my son love, self-respect, the way of the world and boundaries.” WorldRealEnoughRememberHateTeachSonSelf LoveSmartCommitmentBoundariesMy SonBeing Smart Author:Kelly Rowland
“Sure, some employers are are afraid of letting older workers go because they think they're going to get sued. And they probably will get sued. But the reality is, you could get sued at any time by any kind of worker. I think its incumbent on an employer, if they want to be smart, to figure out what is the benefit of keeping this employee or letting them go. Do the calculation and just go ahead and either keep them or let them go based on what's good for the business.” ThinkingKindRealitySmartEmployeeBeing Smart Author:Nick Corcodilos
“Africa needs help, no question about that but I'd rather prefer that the money is channeled. That's what I call smart aid; it's channeled through African civil society groups. These are the groups which can be held more accountable. These are the groups which will sort of monitor how the aid money is spent.” HelpingSmartAidsCivil Society Author:George W. Bush
“I do think it's smart to see a marriage as "a garden and a gardener who constantly swap roles." You really have to switch from one to another. Being the gardener would be the more active role in the situation. Being a garden would be more passive. You've got to be both the one who gets help and the one that's helping. That's the circulation in a couple. You should switch from one position to another. I think it's good to be always aware that love can fade. There's something I really like about that sentence. It's as if love should be seen as work...because it is.” ThinkingHelpingSituationCoupleSmartGardenPassiveGardener Author:Carla Bruni