Smart Kid Quotes

• I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.

  Woody Allen

  Smart, Kids, Parent

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.

  Richard Carmona

  Smart, Believe, School

  "From High School Dropout To Medical School Valedictorian" by Dr. Richard Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2009.

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• And my daughter's too smart. She gets it watching TV. She gets it. She's five. She gets it. I... I have a smart kid; I don't want a smart kid. I'm gonna start feedin' her lead paint chips just to bring her down.

  Christopher Titus

  Daughter, Smart, Kids

  "5th Annual End of the World Tour". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• My kids, that's my biggest accomplishment. Being able to have talented and smart kids. They are doing something I didn't do. I didn't finish school so...that's my biggest accomplishment.

  Dutch Robinson

  Smart, School, Kids

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in school. That is, I was a smart kid.

  George Carlin

  Smart, School, Kids

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• I am so sick of you smart kids. Why can't you just boost cars or steal stuff like normal kids?' 'We do steal stuff. Just bigger stuff.

  Eoin Colfer

  Smart, Kids, Sick

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• The high IQ has become the American equivalent of the Legion of Honor, positive proof of a child's intellectual aristocracy.... It has become more important to be a smart kid than a good kid or even a healthy kid.

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Smart, Kids

  Sam Levenson (1966). “EVERYTHING BUT MONEY”

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• The idea of social performance, that we're always performing identities, is something I got fairly obsessed with. I think it's probably because I am a person who went to 15 different elementary and middle schools. I moved all the time, often having to run out in the middle of the night because my mom couldn't pay the bills. There were schools where I'd be the poor loser kid. There were schools where I'd suddenly be the smart kid or the cool kid, although that was very seldom.

  Robert Greene

  Mom, Running, Smart

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it’s vapid, so they’ll go for the hard words, they’ll go for the hard concepts, they’ll go for the stuff where they can learn something. Not didactic things, but passionate things.

  Maurice Sendak

  Smart, Writing, Kids

  "Maurice Sendak Sheds Moonlight on a Dark Tale". www.nytimes.com. 1993.

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• Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

  Jeff Kinney

  Mom, Smart, Kids

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• My brother played the game with his friends, so I thought I was a pretty smart kid and I played this friend of mine and he just crushed me and this was Brooklyn Tech High School in Brooklyn where I still live, in Brooklyn, New York and this guy beat me so bad it wasn't even funny. I couldn't understand why he beat me.

  Maurice Ashley

  Brother, New York, Smart

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Not everyone’s a lifer in this world, but what separates the wheat from the chaff is intellect. Intellect is a true indication of taste. Some smart kids are standing in these EDM festivals, in the mud and heat and sick, and they’re thinking, “Yeah, this is fine for now, but this can’t be it forever”. There’s got to be something better – but they have to find it for themselves. That’s the next generation right there.

  Seth Troxler

  Smart, Kids, Thinking

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• I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, Smart, Kids

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• All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don't do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who realy could have changed things are wrecked.

  Bruce Coville

  Growing Up, Smart, Kids

  Bruce Coville (2013). “My Teacher Glows in the Dark”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Thomas swallowed, wondering how he could ever go out there. His desire to become a Runner had taken a major blow. But he had to do it. Somehow he KNEW he had to do it. It was such an odd thing to feel, especially after what he'd just seen... Thomas knew he was a smart kid- he somehow felt it in his bones. But nothing about this place made any sense. Except for one thing. He was supposed to be a Runner. Why did he feel that so strongly? And even now, after seeing what lived in the maze?

  James Dashner

  Smart, Taken, Kids

  James Dashner (2009). “The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, Book One): Book One”, p.39, Delacorte Press

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• I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

  Eminem

  Smart, School, Kids

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• I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.

  Criss Angel

  Smart, Book, Kids

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