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  • I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just knew it. -- Patti Smith
  • Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available. -- Steven Weber
  • The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people. -- Bill Gates
  • People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart. -- Brian McKnight
  • If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat -- George Bernard Shaw
  • I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience. -- Julia Roberts
  • She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart. -- Johnny Depp
  • Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman. -- Lawrence Schiller
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone. -- Jodi Picoult
  • I like some of the young guys like Senator Thune. He's a guy that looks good. He's very articulate, he's very smart, and he truly is a public servant. -- John Boozman
  • I'm not anti-Muslim, I'm not anti-immigration; I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate. -- Pim Fortuyn
  • I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead. -- Paris Hilton
  • I always enjoy coming to Israel. Israelis are warm, they're energetic people. Forthright. Very smart. I always like smart people. They're nice people, you know. Aggressive, and I respect that aggressiveness because you need it in their situation. -- Robert De Niro
  • 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
  • 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
  • I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck. -- Corra May Harris
  • 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
  • I don't think famous is what I necessarily went for. The media was never something I really looked into and as I see it happening to me, I think I was very smart when I was younger to not want that. It doesn't mean it's not going to happen, I just avoided it as much as possible. -- Miley Cyrus
  • Taking smart risks can be very gratifying. -- Reed Hastings
  • Hillary Clinton is very strong and very smart. -- Donald Trump
  • I have surrounded myself with very smart people. -- Dolly Parton
  • What if she figures out you're not very smart? -- Billy Joel
  • The Mormons are very smart people. I know many Mormons. -- Donald Trump
  • I'm a really, really, smart, multi-talented almost-genius, who's very annoying. -- Tyler, The Creator
  • To be a good model, you have to be very smart. -- Carine Roitfeld
  • I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get to the point -- Harry S. Truman
  • Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny. -- Aaron McGruder
  • Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette. -- Ann Landers
  • I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living. -- Douglas Coupland
  • I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people. -- Barbara Mandrell
  • When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite. -- Tim Allen
  • Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart. -- Adrianne Palicki
  • I like playing smart women very, very much because I definitely learn from them. -- Autumn Reeser
  • My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart. -- Alley Mills
  • I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart. -- Woody Hayes
  • I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school. -- Carl Hiaasen
  • It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do. -- Betty Dodson
  • We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches. -- Joe Dumars
  • I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb. -- Amy Bloom
  • Jeb Bush is very good on immigration, he's very good on education. He's a smart guy. -- Michael Bloomberg
  • Robert Redford was an absolute blast to work with - a very smart, very charismatic man. -- Christopher McDonald
  • What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place. -- Tom Brokaw
  • Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't. -- Jonah Goldberg
  • The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives. -- Ronald Perelman
  • Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs. -- Ru Freeman
  • When you success you have to be very smart and be extra focused and protect your surroundings. -- DJ Khaled
  • A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright. -- Lucille Ball
  • It's not very smart to piss off a guy who thinks about killing people for a living. -- Will Graham
  • I wanted a T-shirt that says 'USA National Team'. It turned out to be a very smart decision. -- Mark Warkentin
  • When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place. -- Tina Brown
  • My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself. -- Jared Leto
  • Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • First of all, with Mitt Romney, I was saying to the Mormons - the Mormons are very smart people. -- Donald Trump
  • We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional. -- Eva Herzigova
  • I'm tall and smart. If you're aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren't very smart themselves. -- Julia Roberts
  • I played in 'From the Earth to the Moon,' working with Tom Hanks. He is a great guy, very smart. -- Tom Verica
  • I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it. -- Bobby Moynihan
  • My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students. -- Dana Spiotta
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  • Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it. -- Joe Haldeman
  • 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
  • M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more -- Anne Carson
  • 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
  • Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are. -- Steve Carell
  • If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich. -- Warren Buffett
  • Why are so many very smart people not also rich? I guess they are too busy calculating risks rather than getting into action. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness. -- Bonnie Jo Campbell
  • I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart man, and he's a kind guy. -- Cody Horn
  • Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way. -- Manohla Dargis
  • Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it. -- Travis Morrison
  • I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain. -- Hilary Swank
  • Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic! -- Bette Midler
  • Ludacris is a very smart individual. He's about his business. Everything is business with him. So I learned a lot about making deals from him. -- Two Chainz
  • Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities. -- Stuart J. Russell
  • The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable. -- Barack Obama
  • I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea. -- Harold E. Varmus
  • To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart. -- John Kasich
  • I think smart is sexy. I like smart people. People that are comfortable with themselves I think is very sexy. My cat is really sexy. -- Gina Gershon
  • I don't think Mitt Romney is a smart person. I never have thought he was a smart person. But the Mormons are very smart people. -- Donald Trump
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  • Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you. -- Lawrence Bender
  • The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.... -- Noam Chomsky
  • Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability. -- Douglas Wood
  • The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept. -- Daniel Pipes
  • I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The writing was very smart. -- Kevin Chapman
  • The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello. -- Dan Hill
  • I believe if you're not a very curious person by nature, its unlikely you'll become rich at all or make it to the top. Smart is curious. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • 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
  • Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO. -- Andrew Mason
  • I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that. -- David Tennant
  • My dad is a very good sounding board. He's very, very smart. Both of my parents are very, very sharp, much smarter than I, I'm happy to acknowledge. -- Joshua Malina
  • I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty. -- Rob Bell
  • 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
  • You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion. -- Mike Rowe
  • Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero. -- Warren Buffett
  • I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. -- Steve Jobs
  • To me, throwback means I'm a smart player. I know how to play the game. I'm very skilled. I do a lot of things that other people don't do. -- Kevin Love
  • I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart. -- Lady Gaga
  • White Collar' is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a sometimes very funny way. -- Tim DeKay
  • I've learned never to count Vin Diesel out. Just don't do that. And I guess it's because he is a very smart guy. Smarter than people give him credit for. -- David Twohy
  • How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually yields growth? You can't. But you can influence. -- George W. Bush
  • Mark [Duplass] is the same person that I met on day one. He's a very smart, savvy, creative guy. If you ever want a champion on your side, it's Mark. -- Jackie Schaffer
  • They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls. -- Laura Bush
  • Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it. -- Graham Parker
  • 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
  • The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing. -- Fred Wilson
  • I don't get asked a lot of questions about science and the Bible, for example. Probably people just know I'm not very smart and I don't have an answer to those anyway. -- Max Lucado
  • My daughter Cosma is a very popular actress in Germany. She also organizes these wonderful open-air parties. She has a wonderful teacher, she's very smart. And I sometimes perform at her festivals. -- Nina Hagen
  • He doesn't look very smart," Diesel said. "He's not even giving me the finger." "Can monkey's do that?" Hal asked. Carl gave him the finger. "Cool!" Hal said. -- Janet Evanovich
  • My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve. -- Ernest Gallo
  • To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.' -- Lena Olin
  • 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
  • Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I have the book; probably I have a first edition. -- Jose Andres Puerta
  • A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around. -- Louis C. K.
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  • I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it. -- Joel Silver
  • My dad was the first one who said, 'You're going to end up behind the plate because you've got a very good arm and you're very smart when it comes to calling a game.' -- Jorge Posada
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