Being Smart Quotes - Page 3

• Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.

  Meg Cabot

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• 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.

  Kate Walsh

  Smart, Style, Curiosity

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

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• If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Smart, Stories

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• I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

  Gilda Radner

  Funny, Cute, Women

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• Listen! Say less rather than more. If you want to be smart, play stupid!

  Helena Rubinstein

  Smart, Stupid, Play

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• You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

  John Green

  Hipster, Smart, May

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.32, Penguin

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• 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.

  Pharrell Williams

  Disappointment, Smart, Eye

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

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• It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.

  Randy Pausch

  Smart, People, Easy

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• Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Looks, Smarter

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• You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.

  Sara Gilbert

  Smart, Stupid, Writing

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• ..be smart, don't be a retard.

  Eminem

  Smart, Retard

  Song: Guilty Conscience

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• You gotta be smart enough to pick up the information as you go.

  Curtis Jackson

  Smart, Information, Enough

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• Be smart, but never show it.

  Louis B. Mayer

  Smart, Cinema, Modesty

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

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• If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.

  Arnold Palmer

  Smart, Stupid, Golf

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• I may not be smart enough to do everything, but I am dumb enough to try anything.

  Geoff Johns

  Smart, Dumb, Trying

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• I think the reason that a lot of people have to have a lot of people around is just about being smart and knowing what you want to talk about. I want people to know who I am. Respect is a huge thing - especially in my family. ... If you don't respect people, people aren't going to respect you back. It's just about yourself, you respecting others, and hopefully everyone else will follow that and respect you, as well.

  Miley Cyrus

  Smart, Thinking, Who I Am

  "'I've never been that person to fake it,' says Miley Cyrus". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 15, 2009.

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• I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"

  Jewel

  Beauty, Sexy, Smart

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• I learned just to be a belligerent asshole, which was really: "You have to get what you need to get out of it." You have to fight for things you believe in, and you have to be smart about how you position it so that you don't just become white noise.

  David Fincher

  Smart, Believe, Fighting

  Interview with Mark Salisbury, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart.

  Marvin Minsky

  Smart, Thinking, Hands

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• In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

  Maira Kalman

  Smart, Profound, Insightful

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• If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.

  J.A. Konrath

  Smart, Ifs

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• The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

  Ann Richards

  Smart, Self, Perfect

  "Ann Richards Discusses Texas, Politics and Humor". "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. January 23, 2001.

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• 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.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Smart, Suspense, Want

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• Boxing has always been work to me, a job. If I could say anything to a youngster taking up boxing it would be to "be smart and not take a lot of punches". It's called the sweet science for a reason. Hit and not be hit, make a lot of money without taking a lot of punishment. That's what it's about.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Sweet, Jobs, Smart

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• it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.

  Laura Lippman

  Smart, Luck, Lucky

  Laura Lippman (2015). “The Last Place”, p.286, Faber & Faber

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