“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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 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
“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
“When it comes to understanding the nuts and bolts of the details of any policy, the elites haven't the slightest idea. I'm sure you've done this, too. In every gun control debate, somebody, some smart aleck will pop up and say the truth. The guns not killing anybody. The person pulling the trigger is. And then somebody will say, you know if you people were really serious, you'd ban bullets, a gun's worthless without bullets. And here we are. Here we are. Isn't it much easier to ban the production, the manufacture, and the sale of bullets than guns?” PeopleDoneUnderstandingPolicySeriousSmartGunKillingDebateGun ControlWorthlessSmart Aleck Author:Rush Limbaugh
“A Republican establishment member in the media would be David Brooks in the New York Times, the so-called conservative columnist. He's basically a moderate. He favors big government if run by the people he thinks are smart. He's not crazy about conservatives.” PeopleThinkingRunningCrazyRepublicanSmartConservativeBig Government Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is 100 miles. So I went to the school and, being a smart cookie - as they called us in those days - I had a million questions. How did this place exist? How come I didn't know about it? Why are people living like this? Do they want to live like this?” PeopleSchoolSmart Author:Lynne Stewart
“I think, if you can only talk about your stuff in a jargonistic way, you're not as smart as you think. You're alienating people who deserve to have a conversation, or a place in the conversation. If you take the complete inverse and are staunchly anti-intellectual, then I think there's a certain amount of resentfulness in that. There's something about that standpoint that feels a little bit insecure.” PeopleThinkingSmartDeserveInsecure Author:Daniel Lopatin
“I'm interested in philosophy, I studied it, and I also admit I try to read things that are way above me. I have a limit: I take what I need from it, and I do find that some of my favourite philosophical writings tend to be poppier. I admire smart people who are able to describe things simply or in a human, readable way.” PeopleWritingTryingPhilosophySmartPhilosophicalAdmireFavouriteSmart People Author:Daniel Lopatin
“I think musicals are a lowbrow, populist art form. And I don't mean lowbrow in a condescending way at all - they are designed to create delight, wonder, joy, surprise. And what becomes really interesting is when innovative or challenging or smart people take it and use the easy runway that the form allows to take people to another planet, or another place. Or subvert it in some way.” PeopleThinkingMeanArtJoyEasyChallengesInterestingWonderSmartSurpriseInnovativeReally InterestingSmart PeoplePopulistCondescending Author:George C. Wolfe
“If you see that your sport is changing, you need to change yourself and think about it and work with people around you who are really smart in what they do, whether as a coach or as a managing director.” PeopleThinkingSportsSmartCoachesChange YourselfReally Smart Author:Sven Nys
“I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human. I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic. When I see this kind of stuff, I think, they're smart, but I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingKindArtArtistEvilSmartAlienationMisanthropic Author:Etgar Keret
“There are a few people that I always say, "Hey, what do you think of this?" The minute that you know that you want this particular person to hear it, you know that you're pretty much done - although you're doing it to hear some feedback. It's a smart move to know whose ears you want.” PeopleThinkingDoneMovingSmartFeedback Author:John Cale
“Nothing makes me happier than to have a smart person tell me why the show is smart, especially if I didn't intend that. I tend to be a very instinctual writer, and I don't plot shows out like, "This is my thesis and this is how I'm going to subtly sneak my thesis into this episode." I just approach it from, "We know these characters well, here are the situations that they're in, now how would they behave? What would the consequences be?" And it's always fun to see how people interpret that and dissect it afterward, and make me and the other writers seem probably smarter than we really are.” PeopleCharacterFunSituationSmartConsequenceBehaveSneakThesis Author:Shawn Ryan
“I've seen it in so many talented young women who hold back because they're not sure that what they say will be smart enough. Or maybe they've said something in a prior meeting, and people acted like they hadn't said it, and that was crushing. Then we have all had the experience where 20 minutes later, a man says the same thing and everybody responds positively.... So don't take it personally. Take it seriously so that you understand it, and then try to devise techniques to overcome it.” PeopleMenTryingEnoughSmartOvercomingMeetingsNot SureCrushYoung WomenPositivelyBeing Smart Author:Hillary Clinton
“Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.” PeopleKnowsWorldSmartAssBostonRadarFunny PeopleSmart Ass Author:John Krasinski
“The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.” PeopleWorldFeelsTryingPromiseSmartSellsGenerousThoughtfulCrapI PromiseBeing SmartReally SmartSexiestBeing Generous Author:Ashton Kutcher
“I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.” PeopleAbleMistakeFireSmartTrials Author:Shia LaBeouf
“People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.” PeopleLooksGirlStrongSmartThrownFemininePretty Girl Author:Padma Lakshmi
“I know people who are twice as creative as I am, twice as smart, but they didn't do anything because they feared going into a room and opening their mouths. My parents told me to truly accomplish things in my life, there would be times I would have to stand alone. It may be scary, but that's what it requires.” PeopleKnowsMayWould BeParentRoomsCreativeSmartMouthsScaryAccomplishOpeningStand Alone Author:Queen Latifah
“I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!” PeopleKnowsMenFunnyHateSmartI HateFellowsCleverSarcasticLost LoveFellow ManCute LoveHate PeopleI Hate LoveI Hate People Author:Tom Lehrer
“Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.” PeopleCountryFitPureSmartBillsIgnorantArrogantFoundingNo LoveNo RespectCondescendingMost ArrogantSmart Aleck Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and should have been saying 'I hope this guy fails' right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along.” PeopleShouldHas BeensGuySidesKnownFailingSmartShould HaveOppositionThis GuyShould Have BeenSmart PeopleAisle Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.” PeopleThinkingEndsAdviceSmartGutsThe End Of The Day Author:Jennifer Lopez
“It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.” PeopleEnvironmentWonderfulSmartSmart People Author:Marissa Mayer
“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?” PeopleIfsKindHumorFunnyAsksStupidSmartIntelligentIntelligenceStupidityFavouriteStupid PeopleSmart PeopleDilbertStupid QuestionsPeople StupidityStupidity And Intelligence Author:Scott Adams
“Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.” PeopleLooksDifferencesBusinessSmartProfitExpensesRevenueProfit Motive Author:Scott Adams
“The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.” PeopleThinkingLittlesProblemBigsProcessCompanyCreativeSmartMachinesComplexesBehaveSubstitutesGearsBig Companies Author:Elon Musk
“Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.” PeopleThinkingNeedsChildrenViewsSmartHollywoodIdiot Author:Trey Parker
“I have surrounded myself with very smart people.” PeopleSmartSmart PeopleVery Smart Author:Dolly Parton
“I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.” PeopleThinkingWritingSchoolChanceDadSmartNotionMy DadJust OneAnything And Everything Author:Dolly Parton
“Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.” PeopleGivingMotivationalLastsSuccessGamesWinningLinesFeetMinutesAchieveStrengthGreatnessFailurePoliticianGiving UpSmartPerseveranceAthleteQuittingPersistenceMotivational SportsLoserYardsCongratulationsNot Giving UpInspirational SportsNever QuitGave UpBillionaireGreat SuccessI QuitMotivational Inspirational SportsBest SuccessAchieving SuccessAthlete MotivationalLast MinuteGiving Up Is Not An OptionShort SportsAchieved SuccessDo Not Give UpShort Inspirational SportsShort Motivational SportsAbout SuccessInspirational PerseveranceInspirational AthleteQuitterGreatest AthleteTouchdownsFavorite SportsSelf PerseverancePerseverance MotivationalSports CompetitionWinning SportsFamous Never Give UpPerseverance SportsChasing SuccessDo N't Give Up Author:Ross Perot
“I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.” PeopleMenHappensSmartIntelligenceDumbSmart PeopleDumb PeopleMeatheads Author:Keanu Reeves
“I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world's eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we're protected, even if it's not in our best interest.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldFeelsCountryReasonFactsEyeInterestPowerfulGroupsTheorySmartConspiracyProtectedConspiracy TheoryWool Author:Jason Ritter
“I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.” PeopleShouldBelieveEndsFacesArtistGuyActorsOpinionSmartThe End Of The Day Author:Kid Rock