Smarter Quotes - Page 4

• I think about how I conceptualize the audience. The trick is that they've got to be smarter and more worldly than me. So as I'm revising, I'm keeping that in mind. I cannot condescend, even a little bit. Every single choice that I make is motivated by that.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Choices, Mind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would have been more aggressive in the Ruslan [Provodnikov] fight if not because of my eye early in the fight. I had to protect that eye and be even smarter than I normally would. Don't be confused with my style just from that one fight, because I know a lot of you have only seen that one fight.

  Chris Algieri

  Confused, Eye, Fighting

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician unlike any we've ever seen regarding his intellect. I don't believe any of this hocus-pocus. I didn't believe it when they said it about Hillary Clinton, Smartest Woman in the World.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Cutting, Path

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.

  Bob Schieffer

  Smart, Games, People

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• Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.

  Rob Sheffield

  America, Twenties, Would Be

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• For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

  Michael Shermer

  Numbers, Crowds, Problem

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.175, Henry Holt and Company

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• We found in 'The Matrix' that people were willing to accept something more. It was a smarter film.

  Joel Silver

  People, Film, Accepting

  "V For Vendetta - Joel Silver/James McTeigue interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I was maybe the earliest person who was constructive toward Trump who served at a high level in the Bush administration. I took a lot of guff from my former Bush colleagues who didn't see what was happening in the country. I'm not smarter than they are or a better person than they are. I just traveled a lot around the country.

  Matt Schlapp

  Country, Levels, Administration

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found.

  Bill Nye

  Meaningful, Powerful, Ideas

  "The best popular science books of 2014: Biological sciences" by GrrlScientist, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2014.

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• I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician unlike any we've ever seen regarding his intellect. I don't believe any of this hocus-pocus. I didn't believe it when they said it about Hillary, Smartest Woman in the World.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Cutting, World

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• I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Inspirational, People, Listening

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• What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.

  Steve Jobs

  Iphone, Phones, Use

  "Solve This: What All Tech Giants Rely on for Success Except Apple" by David Sable, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2017.

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• One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.

  Penn Jillette

  Reality, Differences, Brain

  "Voodoo and Violence". Interview with Steve Kurtz, reason.com. April 1994.

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• Every poker player is smarter than me.

  Penn Jillette

  Player

  "Penn Jillette on Election 2008". Interview with David Weigel, reason.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.

  Penn Jillette

  Way, Charismatic, Barack

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

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• The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Advice, Given, Equal

  "Samuel L Jackson: 'Now we got the movie stuff out of the way, let's talk about something serious'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Dumb, Use

  "Walter Isaacson: Bill Gates Was 'Conventionally Smarter' Than Steve Jobs". Walter Isaacson's speech at the event hosted by PCMag.com in New York City, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2011.

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• I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation ever was, but the problem with being smart like you guys is that it can lead you really easily to being cynical, and cynicism is actually a pacifying attitude.

  Bill Ayers

  Attitude, Smart, Thinking

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• I think for one thing, kids are a lot smarter now then we ever were.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Kids, Thinking, One Thing

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• Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

  Russell Simmons

  People, Surround Yourself, Surround Yourself With People

  Twitter post from Jan 17, 2017

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• I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

  Russell Simmons

  Inspiring, Success, Encouragement

  FaceBook post by Russell Simmons from Apr 25, 2016

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• It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.

  Etgar Keret

  Thinking, Stories

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.

  Rebecca Eaton

  People, Puzzles

  Source: collider.com

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• There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.

  Albert Einstein

  Play, Dolphins, Humans

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• My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'

  Katee Sackhoff

  Mom, Baby, Smart

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