Being Smart Quotes - Page 9

• I am not against working with Russia in areas of common interests at the same time. We're smart enough, or we should be smart enough to have a dual track policy. You know, walk and chew gum at the same time.

  Daniel Fried

  Smart, Russia, Track

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

  Chris Carter

  Smart, People, Scare

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• I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

  Natalie Portman

  Stars, Smart, College

  "Cerebral Celebs Give Up Screen for Studies". New York Post, www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2002.

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• It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into.

  Alisa Valdes

  Life, Smart, Thinking

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• When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated and ambitious. Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Sexy, Husband

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.124, Knopf

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• I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

  Andy Warhol

  Smart, Want

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We have to have better intelligence. We have to have better interdiction capabilities. And so the issue is not how much we spend or how hard we try; the issue is are we doing it the right way? Are we being smart about it?

  Barack Obama

  Smart, Issues, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The sad thing about our society is that women are put in one of two categories. You're either in the beautiful category and you're seen as sexy and beautiful, or some version of that, or you're put into another category... The latter category affords women the opportunity to be smart, funny, independent, mean, strong, intelligent and opinionated. We take them seriously as politicians, if they fit into that latter category. We respect their opinions more and give them higher expectations. That latter category is what allows female actors to be characters.

  Amber Heard

  Beautiful, Sexy, Strong

  "Amber Heard THE RUM DIARY Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.

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• I hate the idea that you have to give up anything. I think you can be powerful and still be provocative, you can be smart and have a softness, you can have all of it.

  Michael Kors

  Giving Up, Powerful, Hate

  "Michael Kors Talks Kim Kardashian and Bar Mitzvah Fashion in Shanghai". Interview with Alice Pfeiffer, www.elle.com. May 14, 2014.

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• Part of what being a great founder is, is being both able to hold the belief, to think about where it is you want to be doing and want to be going, but also be smart enough that you are essentially listening to criticism, negative feedback, competitive entries.

  Reid Hoffman

  Smart, Thinking, Listening

  "How To Be A Great Founder". Reid Hoffman's Lecture at Stanford University, startupclass.samaltman.com. November 4, 2014.

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• Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

  Edward Young

  Brother, Smart, Heart

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.358

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• I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

  James Brown

  Smart, Men, Games

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• I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

  Ted Turner

  Smart, Dumb, Rich

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• You've always got to be smart enough to go 'Well they're going to have to bring some of their own in'. We don't want to be a monopoly where we get shoved out, it has to be symbiotic.

  Sam Worthington

  Smart, Want, Enough

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm doing the same thing and it's a hundred times bigger and a hundred times better. So if your going to make a computer game off a movie, is it going to be like "Avatar" where it's going to be a prequel before Jake even got to the planet. You've got to be smart because audiences demand that.

  Sam Worthington

  Smart, Games, Jake

  Source: collider.com

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• I want her to be smart and kind... and I want you to fall in love with her, because you shouldn't spend the rest of your life alone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Falling In Love, Smart, Want

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• Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Smart, Stupid, Together

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• The teenager begins to realize he or she really does want to be part of a community, really does want to have good relationships with others, really does want to create something truly good with his or her life. The teenager comes to understand just being smart and just being privileged are not enough.

  Marianne Williamson

  Smart, Teenager, Good Relationship

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Beautiful, Hate, Smart

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

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• When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Smart

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.124, Knopf

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• Be smart, drink your wine.

  Horace

  Smart, Wine, Simple

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• They don't understand that I'm just choosing to be dumb. I'm not dumb. I'm just choosing not to be smart at the moment, but if I put in effort, then I could be really smart, but I choose not to.

  Jonah

  Smart, Effort, Dumb

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• I will not support putting American soldiers into Iraq as an occupying force. I don't think that is in our interest, and I don't think that would be smart to do. In fact, I think that would be a big red flag waving for ISIS to reconstitute itself.

  Hillary Clinton

  Smart, Thinking, Isis

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• One lesson I learned the hard way, early in my career, was that if I tried to write to be smart or to convey a theme or from some existing plan, the result was usually pretty boring. My intuitive move, whenever I'm considering writing something, is to steer towards what feels enjoyable. Another way of saying it is, you just try to avoid the "sucky." If you start to think of a story and a way to tell it, and your reaction is kind of like, Ugh, that's going to be hard, then you don't want to do that.

  George Saunders

  Smart, Moving, Writing

  "George Saunders: It's All About Suckage-Avoidance". Interview With Doug Polisin, www.audible.com. March 15, 2017.

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• I don't even really understand that concept of someone being 'smart' or someone else being 'smarter.' I think that except for the obvious special cases, we're all equal.

  Ab-Soul

  Smart, Thinking, Special

  Source: uproxx.com

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