Really Smart Quotes - Page 2

• There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that you have to be really smart to be really rich. I always say to people, the reason people believe this is a) they've never met a really smart person, and b) they've never met a really rich person. I have met both, and I cannot see the crossover. You do not have to be a genius to get rich. You have to be ruthless to get rich.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Country, Smart, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smart, Opportunity, Dumb

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.

  Matthew Lillard

  Smart, Kids, Rocks

  "Matthew Lillard Does Punk Proud". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2012.

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• I thought Rounders was a comic movie in its way. First time I directed a movie, I wanted to do a comedy. I don't like things that are superficially one thing or another, mainly. My favorite comedies are really smart, too, and have a lot of levels to them as well.

  Edward Norton

  Smart, Levels, Way

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• It really helped to have someone whose taste I really trusted who I knew was really smart and a really good writer. Sometimes I find it hard to judge my own work so it was good to have someone who could look at it. It was like, "Oh, she likes it, then it's good."

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Smart, Judging, Sometimes

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Fred Jr. Trump was great. He was the most handsome person. He was a really smart guy, really, really smart guy. He had everything. But at a certain age he started drinking a little more, a little more, and ultimately it was a big problem, and he'd say don't ever, ever drink. And I'll tell what you, I never - I have never had a glass of alcohol.

  Donald Trump

  Smart, Drinking, Guy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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.

  Jessica Valenti

  Powerful, Hate, Smart

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My wife Jennifer Todd, who's a producer. She runs Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's company, and she produced Memento, and Boiler Room, and Prime, and Across the Universe... and Alice in Wonderland... She's really smart, and very helpful. That was nice, because I was super neurotic and worried.

  Chris Messina

  Running, Nice, Smart

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Andie MacDowell

  Smart, Marijuana, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The kids are really smart. They are sharp and they're not yet bent over by the system. I think there's a wonderful intelligence in today's youth, and it's a part of growing up.

  Tobe Hooper

  Growing Up, Smart, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Smart, People, Laughing

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'll always remember Jean Paul Gaultier, who did a project based on Madonnas, remarking on the images, "Yours are much better." Gaultier is really smart, so it's good getting a compliment from him!

  Miles Aldridge

  Smart, Remember, Compliment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do think that my generation is really smart and wants to have political conversations, and so I hope that we can continue spreading our ideas and being able to change how our systems work. So, I guess being an all-American to me is being someone who questions things.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Smart, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There are a lot of smart creatures out there. Dolphins, elephants, and whales are smart. And there are some really smart birds. I know some really intelligent fish. But they cannot know what humans know and are incapable of inflicting as much damage.

  Sylvia Earle

  Smart, Intelligent, Bird

  Source: www.wildriverreview.co

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• I have never believed the manmade global warming allegation, but I fully understand however the people who do. All it takes is a 105-degree day in July, and the normal reaction is, "Man, it's getting hotter! I wonder if we're getting hotter?" When I was a kid, everybody wondered, "Are we on getting closer to the sun?" This is a natural thing. This is really where the left is really smart. They have the ability to tap into what people of their own volition are already concerned about, and then they give 'em a reason, and they give 'em substantiation for it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Smart, Kids, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• For Keeping the Faith, I looked at [George ] Cukor's old films like The Philadelphia Story, stuff that's hilariously funny and really smart with a cutting critique in the humor, too. With this, when I read it, I was laughing a lot.

  Edward Norton

  Smart, Cutting, Philadelphia

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• Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.

  Joel Spolsky

  Smart, Team, Simple

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• Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games, etc. But kids are really smart, I think they know from an early age about death, this void and hole they are immediately traveling toward.

  Shane Warren Jones

  Children, Smart, Believe

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• My teacher in the seventh grade told me that if I didn't fool around during class, I could have 15 minutes at the end of the day to do a comedy routine. Instead of bugging everybody, I'd figure out my routine. And at the end of the day, I'd get to perform in front of my entire class. I thought it was really smart of her. It's amazing how important that was.

  Jim Carrey

  Teacher, Smart, Class

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• Probably if you look like Tyra Banks, it probably is hard, even if you are really smart, for people to take - it surprises some.

  Lisa Randall

  Smart, People, Looks

  "Not My Job: Physics Professor Lisa Randall Gets Quizzed On Phys Ed". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

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• Marvel's really smart about continuing the storylines of all the different movies from Ultron into this one and blah to blah to blah - it's pretty seamless. So where we left off in Ultron is definitely picked up in Cap 3 here, pretty smoothly I think.

  Jeremy Renner

  Smart, Thinking, Different

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I remember the review from Michael Wilmington in Chicago, and Gene Siskel wrote really smart reviews where I thought, "Oh, they totally get what we're attempting to do."

  Judd Apatow

  Smart, Chicago, Remember

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Honestly, Think Like a Man was the first romantic comedy that I liked. I'd kind of avoided them for awhile because I never felt that any of them were really smart enough. But when I read this script, I genuinely fell in love with the characters, especially my own. So, I just wanted to be a part of it.

  Michael Ealy

  Smart, Character, Men

  Source: aalbc.com

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• You have to plan a lot and you have to be really smart about how you're spending your money.

  Seth Rogen

  Smart

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

  Meryl Streep

  Teacher, Smart, Numbers

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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