Very Smart Quotes

• I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Life, Children, Smart

  "AT LUNCH WITH: Fran Lebowitz; Words Are Easy, Books Are Not". Interview with Bob Morris, www.nytimes.com. August 10, 1994.

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• Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

  Andy Rooney

  Smart, Thinking, Boys

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• If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

  George Bernard Shaw

  Smart, Shoes, Rebel

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• I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

  Sienna Miller

  Birthday, Smart, Thinking

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  A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Being Strong, Wisdom, Stay Strong

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “The Power of Leadership”, p.18, David C Cook

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• She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.

  Johnny Depp

  Smart, Perfect, Kind

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• People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.

  Brian McKnight

  Smart, People

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• The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Dog, Sorry

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.415, Princeton University Press

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• Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data are showing that this is not a very smart move and the Chinese are listening. They are realizing that animal-based agriculture is not the way to go.... We are basically a vegetarian species and should be eating a wide variety of plant food and minimizing our intake of animal foods.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Country, Smart, Moving

  "Huge Study Of Diet Indicts Fat And Meat" by Jane E. Brody, www.nytimes.com. May 08, 1990.

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• I wanted a T-shirt that says 'USA National Team'. It turned out to be a very smart decision.

  Mark Warkentin

  Smart, Team, Usa

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• I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.

  Woody Hayes

  Smart

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• A fantastic, gleeful, chrome-plated-slick debut of a novel. In Jonathan Chase, Markham has created the perfect cliche-shattering super spy while honoring the progenitors. Dangerously sharp, and genuinely fun-and very, very, very smart. I want more books like this. I want more books from the mind of Mr. Markham!

  Greg Rucka

  Fun, Smart, Book

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• Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a very clever and very smart novel by a very clever and smart writer. The dialogue crackles, the plot is intriguing, and the pacing is perfect.

  Karin Slaughter

  Clever, Smart, Order

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• Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness.

  Donny Deutsch

  Smart, Greatness, Leader

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• But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

  Paul Krugman

  Wall, Smart, Men

  "Paul Krugman: 'I'm sick of being Cassandra. I'd like to win for once'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2012.

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• Raptors are smart. Very smart. Believe me, all the problems we have so far are nothing compared with what we'd have if the raptors ever got out of their holding pen.

  Robert Muldoon

  Smart, Believe, Problem

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• It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Smart, Thinking, Ideas

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• I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

  Steven Moffat

  Smart, Pride, Successful

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• But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart.

  Beth Henley

  Smart, Writing, Character

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• We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.

  Joe Dumars

  Smart, Player, Three

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• Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Dog, Smart, Humans

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• I think nobody is in a position to react to these big macro-issues. Where is the dollar going to be or what is G.D.P. growth going to be in China? For every smart person on one side of the question, there is another smart person on the other side.

  David F. Swensen

  Smart, Thinking, Issues

  "Smart Advice for the HuffPost Investor : The System Is Rigged Against You, Can You Beat the Odds Or Should You Stay On the Sidelines?" by Dan Solin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2008.

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• I had seen Shawn Levy's movie just before, Just Married. And I think when I met him too, he's very smart and together and he's got it together.

  Piper Perabo

  Smart, Thinking, Together

  Interview with Fred Topel, www.ign.com. December 23, 2003.

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• Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Smart, Team

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• If my dramatic career doesn't work out, I will go on to research and find cures for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's and other motor neuron diseases. It's a very exciting field of research. But I'd like to continue in drama, so it wouldn't be very smart of me if I blew this amazing opportunity with an inappropriate lifestyle.

  Freddie Stroma

  Smart, Drama, Opportunity

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

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