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“When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.”

Kids Father Sleep Advice Dad Smart Silly Drs Knights Going To Sleep Smart Aleck

Author:Ben Stein

“If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.”

Ifs Sports Smart Army

Author:Casey Stengel

“Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don't go hungry, you're a moocher?”

Ifs Break Taxes Smart Advantage Hungry Corporate Businessman Tax Breaks Moochers

Author:Jon Stewart

“Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!”

Mean College Degrees Smart College Degree

Author:Emma Stone

“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.”

“When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'”

Kids Wonder Saws Position Smart Reactions Tied Rope Hostage Tied Up Wonder Woman

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?”

Has Beens Would Be Able Past Religious Leader Nice Kings Smart Admire Being Nice Luther Nelson Great Change Religious Leaders

Author:Dennis C. Blair

“Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.”

People Ifs Men One Thing Smart Intelligence Obsession Attractive Attractive Things

Author:Meryl Streep

“Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.”

People Sometimes Groups Circumstances Smart Smarter

Author:James Surowiecki

“For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.”

People Thinking Needs Perspective Smart Independent Crowds Following Diverse Being Smart

Author:James Surowiecki

“To generalize is to be an idiot.”

Wisdom Teaching Intellectual Smart Idiot Thought Provoking

Author:William Blake

“If I go to an awards ceremony, I wear a suit, of course I do. I am proud to be there. If there are young kids looking at pictures of me, I want them to feel that they should long for the opportunity to go somewhere really smart and wear a beautiful suit, rather than to reject that.”

Ifs Want Feels Should Long Kids Beautiful Young Courses Opportunity Proud Smart Suits Rejects Awards Ceremony Really Smart Award Ceremonies

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.”

Ifs Mean Happened Smart Admiration Frustrating Really Smart

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.”

Way Remember One Thing Advice Smart Folks Gambling Good Advice Hillbilly

Book:Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

“Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.”

People Thinking Knows Real Reason Lying Asks Smart Ask Me Gambling Rude Addict

Book:Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

“There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.”

Fun Differences Lessons Smart Having Fun Gambling Harsh Being Smart Lessons To Be Learned

Book:Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

“I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.”

Knows Feels Years Enough School Beautiful Felt Smart High School Ashamed Dropping Being Beautiful Dropping Out

Author:Mary J. Blige

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”

Inspirational Success Science Names Progress Evolution Smart Economics Luck Accidents Invention Good Luck Inventor Bad Luck Inventions And Inventors Saying Good Luck Great Inventors

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.”

Thinking Smart Complaining Typecasting

Author:Aisha Tyler

“I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.”

People Thinking Kind Character Opinion Creative Style Smart Sexy Sense Of Humor

Author:Suzanne Vega

“Today, President Obama is making smart investments in clean energy - wind, solar, biofuels - as part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy that supports thousands of jobs, not in the Middle East, but in the Midwest.”

Today Jobs Energy President Support Middle Wind Smart Strategy Clean Investment East President Obama Middle East Midwest Clean Energy Biofuels

Author:Tom Vilsack

“I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.”

Men Mean Real Stupid Smart Senses Clever Italian Elegant Macho

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.”

Thinking Bigs Used Guy Audience Nice Fans Mines Smart England Rotten Jerk Nice Guy Johnny Rotten

Author:Don Van Vliet

“The superfluous, a very necessary thing.”

Funny Smart Humorous Witty Superfluous Necessary Things

Author:Voltaire

“I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.”

Needs Body Interest Style Smart Hot Curiosity Fats Substance Belly Being Smart Overweight Hot Body

Author:Kate Walsh

“I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.”

Made School Fighting Smart Idiot Elementary School Back In The Day Valedictorians

Author:Marlon Wayans

“Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.”

Source: The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon

“A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.”

Trying Two Jobs Lasts Games Stuff Simple Smart Hundred Organization Managers Sixty Screws December Screw Ups

Author:Earl Weaver

“To err is human, but it feels divine.”

Feels Humans Humor Funny Humanity Divine Smart Empowerment Sexy Clever Sensual Memorable Psychics Err Is Human Risque

Author:Mae West

“There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.”

Two Enough Trouble Smart Two Things Spaceships

Author:Joss Whedon

“The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.”

“When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Hard Choices Challenges Smart Performances Size Spite Smart Choices

Author:Kate Winslet

“Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.”

People Thinking Persons Smart Intelligence Combination Southern Think Of You Blonde Being Smart

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.”

Ifs Way Needs Persons Enough Moral Figures Smart Lows Being True Explanation Justify Liars Fortitude You Re A Liar

Author:Samuel Witwer

“It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.”

Strong Democracy Limits Smart Debate Weakening

Author:Naomi Wolf

“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.”

People Wisdom Wise Basketball Smart Arguing Surround Surround Yourself Smart People Surround Yourself With Good People Surround Yourself With Positive People Smart Person Surround Sound

Book:Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle

Source: Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle

“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”

People Work Economy Doors Smart Luck Smart People Happy New Year Inspirational Smart Person

Author:Steve Wozniak

“Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!”

Want Made Science Economy Teacher Smart Praise Smarter Recognizing Being Smart

Author:Steve Wozniak

“We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.”

People Needs Creative Inspire Genius Smart Creative People Broadcasters

Author:will.i.am

“I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.”

Way Smart Mad Raised

Author:Andrew Young

“Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and diagnostic instruments that are built tough, cheap, and reusable for the developing world.”

World Made Care Poor Technology Development Majors Smart Tough Built Instruments Currents Developing Health Care Application Affordable

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.”

People Way Wells Used Turns Work Beauty Smart Attractive Being Smart Being Myself

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?”

People Has Beens Sometimes Seems Evil Hero Smart Ordinary Aliens Dumb Good People Unusual Heroic Irrational Ordinary People Social Psychology Smart People Unusual Things

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?”

Ifs Humans Smart Treats

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we're sending out into the cybersphere.”

People Way Needs Important Realizing Share Smart Phones Stranger Smarter Instagram Tweet

Author:Regina Brett

“Now that we've transitioned to more Smart TVs, where people are broadcasting their cable box, I hope that Geek & Sundry is something that people will click on in the future, knowing that they're going to get content that they love.”

People Knowing Tvs Smart Boxes Geek Cables Clicks Broadcasting

Author:Felicia Day

“I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart.”

People Violence Movement Smart Online Rebel Nerd

Author:Chris Hardwick

“A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.”

Matter Might Running Guy Next Individual Principles Practice Teacher Events Fit Smart Currents Runners Never Change Fitting Pupils Inspirational Running Basic Principles

Author:Bill Bowerman

“Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.”

Bigs Technology Smart Asking Mere Data Answering Questions

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.”

Technology Risk Behavior Smart Autonomy Undermining Undesirable Suppressing

Author:Evgeny Morozov

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