Smarter Quotes - Page 6

• I was one of the boys who made passes at girls who wore glasses. Any girl who was smarter than me - that was a huge turn-on.

  Ernest Cline

  Girl, Boys, Glasses

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.

  Socrates

  Men, Knowing Nothing, Claims

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• I know that YouTube has made me smarter just by having to think about my views and how to defend them.

  Scott Clifton

  Thinking, Views, Made

  "The Scott Clifton Interview – The Bold and the Beautiful". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Stupid, Thinking, White

  Stephen L. Carter (1991). “Reflections of an affirmative action baby”, Basic Books

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• So we can do a better job of homeland security. I can do a better job of waging a smarter, more effective war on terror and guarantee that we will go after the terrorists. I will hunt them down, and we'll kill them, we'll capture them. We'll do whatever is necessary to be safe.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, War, Guarantees That

  "Bush, Kerry debate domestic policies". The debate at Arizona State University, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.

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• My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.

  Robert Jordan

  Mother, Men, Brain

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.510, Macmillan

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• Why isn't someone smarter than us doing this?

  Michael Lewis

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.123, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

  Keith Olbermann

  Thinking, Years, Rooms

  "Making Up Hard to Do for Olbermann" by Bob Wolfley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 16, 2003.

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• It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Thinking, People, Speak

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Im working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, shes a smarter and better editor than I am.

  Patricia MacLachlan

  Daughter, Editors, Way

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• Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Needs, Linkages, Institutes

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• I’ve been a barbarian my whole life. I’m just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?

  Brock Lesnar

  Barbarians, Evolution, Whole Life

  "Ex-UFC champion Brock Lesnar finally rules out return to MMA". Interview with Greg Beacham, apnews.com. March 25, 2015.

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• Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)

  Eric S. Raymond

  Dog, Cousin, Animal

  "Homesteading the Noosphere". Essay by Eric S. Raymond, www.catb.org. 1998.

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• Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer.

  Jewel

  Choices, Cynicism

  "A Search for Truth About Jewel" by Neil Strauss, www.rollingstone.com. December 24, 1998.

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• What could have John Edwards' motivations been to have the affair with Rielle Hunter, given his wife is smarter than he is and probably nagging him a lot about doing this, and he found somebody that did something with her mouth other than talk.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Motivation, Wife, Hunters

  "Verdict" with Dan Abrams, www.nbcnews.com. August 13, 2008.

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• I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does; but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Sight, Organization

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• Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

  John Shirley

  Mean, Artist, People

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  Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.

  Chris Rock

  Smart, Knowing, People

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I promise you, if you reach that point where you are not afraid to figure out who you are, what you want and what your values are, you will not fear that anymore. You will not do it, you will be smarter.

  Christi Paul

  Promise, Want, Where You Are

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

  Paul Keating

  Party, Two, Together

  "Keating criticises ALP over compulsory super plan". "The World Today" with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. March 5, 2007.

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• I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcoms—it had nothing to do with the color of them—I just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.

  Bill Cosby

  Mother, Children, Father

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• My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect.

  Anthony Pettis

  Philosophy, Mma, Effort

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• I decided to be a smarter fighter. I already knew I was tough, so if I was smart and tough, I was more likely to be a champion.

  Cub Swanson

  Smart, Mma, Champion

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• The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains.

  Judy Woodruff

  Brain, Body, Computer

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Needs, Asking

  University of Michigan Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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