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That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man's true character, make him drunk. -- Martin Luther
I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster. -- Henry Rollins
Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman. -- Lawrence Schiller
Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up. -- Carol Burnett
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. -- William Feather
Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically. -- Martin Fry
I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it. -- Greg Behrendt
Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon. -- Pope Francis
Satan is an astute theologian. -- John Calvin
Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation. -- Kate DiCamillo
To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy. -- Michael Ventura
So you're not a prince. She's pretty astute,don't you think? Owww! I'm sorry-- I'll shut up now, Princess! -- Natsuki Takaya
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. -- Leo Tolstoy
The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb. -- bell hooks
We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy. -- John D. Rockefeller
I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power. -- Barbara Kruger
A great football team is the right balance and the right mixture of players. Good leaders, good communicators and good technicians. You need people that are strategically astute. People need passion, desire and most importantly, a willingness to keep learning. -- Hope Powell
What do you think of this" he asked, indicating the painting nearby. She gave him an odd look. "I think it's an enormous painting of a dog." He made a show of considering the picture and nodded seriously. "An astute observation. -- Sarah MacLean
[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral. -- Anne Lamott
People are, by and large, quite poor at judging correct absolute values but are astute about determining relative values. Psychologists call this coherent arbitrariness, which suggests that individuals are coherent when they compare prices on a relative basis but arbitrary when those prices are considered versus fundamental value. -- Michael Mauboussin
A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with 'authenticity'-as well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common. -- Beth Bailey
My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman. -- Steven Spielberg
The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting. -- Robert Dallek
As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me. -- Matt Groening
Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
As soon as we step beyond the established boundaries of pure thermodynamic theory, we enter a trackless region confronting us with obstacles which even the most astute of us are almost at a loss to tackle. -- Wilhelm Wien
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change. -- Camille Paglia
Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, way, way back. Dizzy is one of the most astute guys and one of the most learned guys in the world and knows exactly what he's doing musically. -- Billy Eckstine
People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't. -- Octavia E. Butler
Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener. -- Daniel H. Pink
I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I think he is very astute. McEwan, I read a bit. But I suppose it's more the ideological phenomenon that they represent together that interests me. -- Terry Eagleton
Adult dragons are,astute,powerful,and sure of their strength. -- Ciruelo Cabral
Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs. -- Ru Freeman
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere. -- Andrea Barrett
I am humble enough to recognize that I have made mistakes, but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are. -- Michael Heseltine
To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute. -- Esi Edugyan
We all need to be astute in sending and reading power cues, so that we can prevent ourselves - and the world - from being manipulated by evil geniuses like Hitler. -- Nick Morgan
We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy. -- John D. Rockefeller
Even the most astute chefs seek out the assistance of Celine Labaune, owner of Gourmet Attitude, because they know they can rely on her keen senses and deep understanding of the truffle trade. -- Thomas Keller

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