Smart famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
-- Aaron Allston -
Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.
-- Aaron McGruder -
When you have success on the field, you're more popular and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say. You're still going to make mistakes from time to time, but you represent an even greater population and people are that much more looking for you to be in the wrong place at the wrong time or fall down or say something really stupid that's going to get you in trouble.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
-- Abraham Maslow -
People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
-- Adam Carolla -
Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.
-- Adam DeVine -
As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.
-- Adam Levine -
I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.
-- Adam Levine -
The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.
-- Adam Osborne -
Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
-- Ade Edmondson -
You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting a dowry are slim. You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.
-- Adeline Yen Mah -
Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?
-- Adolph Zukor -
God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.
-- Adrian Rogers -
Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.
-- Adrianne Palicki -
I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown.
-- Adrien Broner -
I don't care. I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that. Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview--they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.
-- Aidan Quinn -
The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.
-- Aimee Bender -
I often went entire days without speaking - unable to get a word in over my inner taskmaster, who never shut up: “You fat, disgusting slob, you'll never be thin enough, good enough, smart enough, tough or talented enough.
-- Aimee Liu -
Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
-- Aisha Tyler -
These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look after themselves, that's all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
-- Ajahn Chah -
I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
-- Al Franken -
All I have to do is be the best Al I can be, because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, doggone it, people like me.
-- Al Gore -
No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal -
Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly, reminded me of a young Jack Reacher as a tech-sa What I said: “Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly, reminded me of a young Jack Reacher as a tech-savvy bond analyst. Drew Chapman is a debut novelist to watch.
-- Alafair Burke -
No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it.
-- Alafair Burke -
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
-- Alan Alda -
I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.
-- Alan Shepard -
'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.
-- Albert Allen Bartlett -
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 -
I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments
-- Albert Einstein -
If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.
-- Albert Einstein -
We are delighted that these regulations are now law, and we commend the provincial government for helping put the issue on the front burner. These requirements will push more companies to have the conversations they should be having around board and executive committee diversity and, hopefully, their talent development. Businesses need to tap the full pool of smart, talented people to stay competitive and strengthen our country’s economic future.
-- Alex Johnston -
I was very pleased when PRS presented me with my SE Angelus acoustic, a beautiful guitar of stunning quality. It was in response to the challenge of building a guitar that shared the integrity and attention to detail that the Alex Lifeson Private Stock Angelus possesses in a package more broadly accessible. The SE Alex Lifeson Thinline is that model. Carefully selected materials, expert craftsmanship and a smart approach to concept resulted in a guitar that is beautiful to look at and rewarding to play.
-- Alex Lifeson -
The Miz can out brawl Randy Orton. Out wrestle him, out shine him, out smart him and out class him.
-- Alex Riley -
What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that you see. Oh, but I loved to play ball. I loved the physical aspect. So you have one leg in one field, and one leg in the other and you're nowhere.
-- Alexander Lowen -
The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
-- Alexander Pope -
I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that definitely kind of grows you up a little faster than a normal 18-year-old in college, so I think so. I think I've got some street smarts.
-- Alexandra Chando -
Inclusion and fairness in the workplace . . . is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.
-- Alexis Herman -
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
All my serving utensils are measured. It's not obvious, because they're really beautiful, but I have the option of tracking what I'm eating. That helps me be smart about it.
-- Ali Vincent -
I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.
-- Alice Sebold -
It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into.
-- Alisa Valdes -
When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions. If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.
-- Allen Iverson -
My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart.
-- Alley Mills -
I didn't get to be this smart by not being stupid
-- Allison Mackie -
I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.
-- Allison Williams -
Since a good part of my life has been wasted dealing with fools just like them, it's not worry I feel but weariness as I watch the approach of one more episode in the old, tired story of men who try to beat life, the smart ones who think they know it all and die with a look of surprise on their faces: at the final moment they always see the truth - they never really understood anything, never held anything in their hands. An old story, old and boring.
-- Ãlvaro Mutis -
I like to take risks as long as they're healthy, you know. They're good, smart risks.
-- Alyson Stoner -
I like playing smart, savvy, sexy women -- because it's so not me!
-- Amanda Tapping -
I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.
-- Amber Heard -
They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.
-- Amy Hempel -
One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.
-- Amy Ryan -
We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.
-- Anders Sandberg -
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 -
I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.
-- Andres Serrano -
The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.
-- Andrew Bogut -
You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues … You know that the first order effect of cutting taxes is to lower tax revenues. We all agree that the ultimate reduction in tax revenues can be less than this first order effect, because lower tax rates encourage greater economic activity and thus expand the tax base. No thoughtful person believes that this possible offset more than compensated for the first effect for these tax cuts. Not a single one.
-- Andrew Samwick -
I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me.
-- Andrew Stanton -
I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
-- Andrew Young -
Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?
-- Andy Andrews -
It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television.
-- Andy Andrews -
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 -
We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.
-- Andy Rooney -
Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!
-- Andy Rooney -
For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of 40 +, there is a balding, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year-old waitress.
-- Andy Rooney -
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 -
When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
-- Andy Stanley -
And they're [Coen brothers] so smart, they're so witty, they have such an extraordinary way of communicating with an audience in a such a clean way - with just a few lines or just a gesture from a character, they say so much.
-- Angelina Jolie -
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
-- Anita Diament -
We have way too many lawyers, the price for them has plummeted and you will have a miserable and unsatisfying life. Unless you get into Harvard Law. You could be in a yurt on the Mongolian Plateau and they'll say, "Oh you must be smart. You went to Harvard Law."
-- Ann Coulter -
The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.
-- Ann Richards -
We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.
-- Ann Romney -
I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.
-- Anna Gunn -
You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.
-- Anna Held -
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 -
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-- Anna Quindlen -
After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'
-- Anna Quindlen -
Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.
-- Anna Quindlen -
The Trump Card is appealing, grounded, smart, and has a sense of humor. Ivanka Trump proves that believing in yourself and working hard never go out of style.
-- Anna Wintour -
M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
-- Anne Carson -
I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil. So violent in their hostility to me and my work. OK, wait, wait, wait. That's a lie. I do read the responses--and get mesmerized, like cobra hypnosis. But I laugh (mostly) at the trolls, and think about what tiny little weenies they must have. (They seem to be mostly men.) And then ALL these smart, funny people leap to my defense, which is medicine, and fills me with love and thankfulness.
-- Anne Lamott -
If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.
-- Annie Lennox -
If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.
-- Annie Proulx -
Whenever I’m about to have sex with a girl, I play it smart and just automatically assume she has herpes; because that way I don’t have to tell her about my herpes.
-- Anthony Jeselnik -
I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.
-- Anthony LaPaglia -
I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.
-- April Bowlby -
I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.
-- Archie Panjabi -
I'm pretty smart with boys. I know how to handle them and I know what to do around them.
-- Ariel Winter -
When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
-- Aristotle -
To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.
-- Aristotle Onassis -
You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you're smart you'll let your man do the choosing and be ecstatic over his selection, even if it tastes like shampoo.
-- Arlene Dahl
