Smarter Quotes - Page 9

• You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.

  Marilyn Manson

  Growing Up, Hair, People

  "A Dangerous Man? Marilyn Manson Says He’s Become His Own Nightmares". Interview with Dan Aquilante, nypost.com. November 17, 2000.

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• Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

  Drew Houston

  Mean, Data, Car

  "How Did This 28-Year-Old Frat Boy End Up Worth $600 Million? A Dropbox FAQ". Interview with Nicholas Carlson, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2011.

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• At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Smart, Thinking

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• Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful!

  Jennifer Young

  Recovery, Loss, Yesterday

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• Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?

  Tamora Pierce

  Teenager, Book, Giving

  "Interview | YA authors Ally Condie and Tamora Pierce". Interview with Amy L. Hayden, www.timeout.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Writing, Ideas, People

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• When my wife gets mad at me, I remind myself that she is much smarter than I am and so I probably deserve it, even if I don't really understand it!

  Michael Weatherly

  Mad, Wife, Ifs

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• I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Jobs, Views, Keys

  "Mulcahy traces steps of Xerox's comeback". Interview with Kevin Maney, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 21, 2006.

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• Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

  St. Vincent

  Creative, Ears, Way

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• I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Thinking, Comforting, Human Nature

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• I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

  Dick Cavett

  Teacher, Sorry, Home

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.129, Henry Holt and Company

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• You are pretty smart. But your body is smarter.

  Pete Egoscue

  Smart, Body, Your Body

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• But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.

  Tyson Gay

  Believe, Wiser, Train

  "Tyson Gay" by Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• Have you ever felt as if other people were smarter than you? Quicker on the uptake? Zombies feel this way every day.

  Scott Kenemore

  People, Zombie, Way

  Scott Kenemore (2015). “The Zen of Zombie: (Even) Better Living through the Undead”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Wise, Clever

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• Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

  Paul Haggis

  Years, Love And Relationship, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• So I think, as much as possible, I try to be open myself. I think that's probably something that falls with young people. It's not because I think young people are smarter, because I don't think they are. I think young people are quite actually stupid.

  Lukas Moodysson

  Stupid, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Delegate - work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted.

  John C. Maxwell

  Love Is, People, Giving

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• If there is anything I've learned, is that piety is smarter than hate, that mercy is preferable even to justice itself, that if you go around the world with friendly look, one does good friends.

  Philip Gibbs

  Hate, Good Friend, Justice

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• Now the guy that got to the top, the CEO, would obviously be stupid to have a number two guy who was a lot smarter than he is. So by definition, since he's a survivor and he got to the top and he isn't that brilliant, his number two guy is going to always be a little worse than he is. So, as time goes on, it's anti-Darwinism, the survival of the un- fittest.

  Carl Icahn

  Stupid, Two, Numbers

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• Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.

  Liev Schreiber

  Smart, Interesting, Novelists

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

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• I've always loved The Simpsons, just because it was really, really funny. As a kid, you love the characters. You know that the dad is dumb and frustrated, and you know that the boy is smarter than everyone else around him and is constantly getting into mischief.

  Alex Hirsch

  Dad, Character, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• That's what women specialize in-demanding every scrap of humanity we have. Our hearts, our souls and our balls. You can fight it, my friend, but I've learned it's a whole lot smarter to hand it all over quietly. They're going to win in the end and if you resist, you only end up having to beg more.

  Susan Mallery

  Heart, Fighting, Winning

  Susan Mallery (2010). “Finding Perfect”, p.323, HQN Books

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• To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the mattress of their bed. Wouldn't it be better if the parents just discussed this with the kids instead of creating this culture of sneaking and dishonesty within the family? The moral of the story being, you don't hide reality from your kids because then they grow up to be smarter, more aware adults.

  Jello Biafra

  Growing Up, Teenager, Kids

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• We can't just go, like, oh that'd be cool then not do it. So it's one of those weird things. You gain all these things on your journey. You get smarter. It's interesting how you are who you are in high school in a lot of ways. When I look at my friends, I feel no different about them than I did when I was in high school. I mean that in a great way. They've taken on a micro scale what they were doing and making it bigger.

  Zack Snyder

  Taken, School, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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