Smart Quotes - Page 10

• It doesn't matter how smart you are; to audition for 'Jeopardy,' you just have to luck out and know what they're asking you that day.

  Drew Carey

  Luck, Asking, Matter

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• My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

  Benjamin Carson

  Mother, Favorite Subject, My Favorite

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• I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

  Kim Cattrall

  Mind, Dollars, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

  Jackie Chan

  Hurt, Distance, Thinking

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• 'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Use, Way

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• I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.

  Hillary Clinton

  Moving, Cutting, Thinking

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• I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.

  George Clooney

  Enough, Knows

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• My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as good as my father. I wasn't as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else.

  George Clooney

  Father, College, Men

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• I love a smart, well-written show, and '30 Rock,' well, you can't get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There's nothing that she does that isn't funny. That show is an example of how brilliant she is. It's so smart. They've done some brilliant commentary about the 'Housewives' with 'Queen of Jordan,' their show-within-the-show.

  Andy Cohen

  Queens, Rocks, Example

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• I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

  J. Cole

  Teacher, Class, Clown

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• A woman who knows that she doesn't have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Sexy, Believe, Skills

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• A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.

  Louis C. K.

  Team, Writing, Long

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• I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.

  Claire Danes

  Kids, Nerd, Quality

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• No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Awards, People

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• When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.

  Alan Dershowitz

  School, Mind, Littles

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• I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

  Cameron Diaz

  Kids, Reality, Care

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• Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.

  Shelley Duvall

  Dirty, Naughty, Pigs

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• I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

  Sheena Easton

  Mother, Taken, Long

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• Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

  Dave Eggers

  Kids, Light, Shining

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• Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Self, Want

  "Pushing Back the Limits of Speech and Music". Interview with Ben Sisario, www.nytimes.com. July 4, 2011.

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• Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.

  Tina Fey

  Sexy, Husband, Promise

  E! Online Interview, October 04, 2002.

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• Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Loneliness, Writing, Thinking

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• In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Book, Opposites, Ideas

  "Something happened" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2005.

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• As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Jobs, America, Growth

  "A little advice for Obama at the half". fortune.com. November 18, 2010.

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• I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

  Megan Fox

  Funny, Talking, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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