Smart Quotes - Page 9

• One of the tax systems in the US is for wage earners. The government takes money from them out of each paycheck - so it knows how much they make, and those workers can't cheat to any significant degree. But the other tax system is for capital. Those with capital get to tell the government what they want to tell. They may get audited, but if their tax returns are of any size the government doesn't have enough of the smart auditors to figure out what's really going on. And there are the rules that allow you to do things like take in money today and pay taxes on it thirty years from now.

  David Cay Johnston

  Today, Cheat, Enough

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• tend to be better at describing feelings and ideas, and worse at painting a picture of any physical thing. I have terrible spatial reasoning skills so even if I were describing my girlfriend, whom I see every day, it sound like I was talking about a child's drawing of her. "Very beautiful. Glasses. Brown hair. Super smart brain. Bigger than our dog. Smaller than me".

  Josh Gondelman

  Beautiful, Dog, Girlfriend

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• I've seen it in so many talented young women who hold back because they're not sure that what they say will be smart enough. Or maybe they've said something in a prior meeting, and people acted like they hadn't said it, and that was crushing. Then we have all had the experience where 20 minutes later, a man says the same thing and everybody responds positively.... So don't take it personally. Take it seriously so that you understand it, and then try to devise techniques to overcome it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Crush, Men, People

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• I'm a smart girl. There are decisions that I make for reasons, and the most important thing is that my son is happy and he always will be. He's surrounded by love.

  Christina Aguilera

  Girl, Son, Decision

  "Christina Aguilera Interview BURLESQUE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 16, 2010.

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• Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Clever, Winning, Boys

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• Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

  Gracie Allen

  Funny, Family, Senior

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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

  Book, Kids, College

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• I know my fan base is a smart group of people.

  Aziz Ansari

  People, Groups, Fans

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• Barack Obama is clearly a smart guy, talented.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Guy, Smart Guy, Barack

  "Stephen Baldwin: 'McCain can bring change'". TODAY Interview, www.today.com. October 25, 2008.

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• The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.

  Mario Batali

  Paradise, Ingredients, Culinary

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• Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Real, Moving, Looks

  Anthony Elliott, Zygmunt Bauman (2007). “The contemporary Bauman”

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• I guess I've got a smart wife.

  Yogi Berra

  Wife

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• I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

  Halle Berry

  Art, Thinking, Done

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• Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.

  Joe Biden

  Intelligence, Being Smart

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• The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?

  Dennis C. Blair

  Religious, Kings, Nice

  "Former US spy chief sees shift toward Asia". Interview with Elizabeth Dickinson, www.csmonitor.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.

  Mary J. Blige

  Beautiful, School, Years

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• I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Clever, Stupid, Real

  "This much I know: Andrea Bocelli" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, Teacher, Practice

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• I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn't that what attracts anyone?

  Tom Brady

  Ambitious, Smart And Funny, Great Family

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.

  Jordana Brewster

  Girl, Quirky, Want

  "Maxim Monday: Jordana Brewster Wants to Be a Bond Girl". www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2009.

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• Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

  Mel Brooks

  Stupid, Just Being, Wells

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• Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.

  Luke Bryan

  Dream, Business, Believe

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• Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

  Yul Brynner

  Funny, Girl, Witty

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• There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

  Julie Burchill

  Girl, War, Hard Times

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• Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

  Steve Carell

  Children, Stupid, Brain

  "Steve Carell on How to Act Brilliant". Interview with Nancy Miller, www.wired.com. April 21, 2008.

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