‘It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.’ – Bill Gates

‘It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.’ – Richard P. Feynman

‘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

‘A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.’ – Roy H. Williams

‘I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.’ – Taylor Swift

‘I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.’ – John Wooden

‘Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a reason. They understand that this is the driving force of the fourth industrial revolution: steam engine, electricity, then the microchip – blockchain and crypto is the fourth.’ – Brock Pierce

‘Smart people focus on the right things.’ – Jensen Huang

‘Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.’ – Matthew McConaughey

‘A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.’ – Jeff Cooper

‘I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.’ – J. Cole

‘Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.’ – Steve Jobs

‘I don’t think women should look like costumes. I don’t think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.’ – Ralph Lauren

‘Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.’ – Alan Alda

‘Journalism isn’t about how smart you are. It’s not about where you’re from. It’s not about who you know or how clever your questions are. And thank God for that. It’s about your ability to embrace change and uncertainty. It’s about being fearless personally and professionally.’ – Mary Pilon

‘I like constructive criticism from smart people.’ – Prince

‘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

‘Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.’ – Daniel Goleman

‘When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.’ – Norm Crosby

‘In 2017, people have realized there isn’t going to be one crypto to rule them all. You’re seeing vertical solutions where XRP is focused on payment problems, Ethereum is focused on smart contracts, and increasingly, bitcoin is a store of value. Those aren’t competitive. In fact, I want bitcoin and Ethereum to be successful.’ – Brad Garlinghouse

‘I guess I’ve got a smart wife.’ – Yogi Berra

‘I say, ‘Yeah, Taylor Swift.’ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.’ – Dolly Parton

‘I was a smart kid, but I hated school.’ – Eminem

‘Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that’s left is The Extraordinary.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘It takes a smart man to play dumb.’ – Mr. T

‘Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.’ – Byron Dorgan

‘There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘You can be an absolute woman and also be smart and tough and not lose your femininity.’ – Priyanka Chopra

‘Transparency is key to reciprocal accountability, which we use to be both free and smart. It is the miracle tool that enables us to question the lies of monsters.’ – David Brin

‘I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.’ – Stephen King

‘Stay open-minded; stay focused. Train hard and train smart. For me, the older I get, the smarter I have to train also, because the recovery time is longer. Work on everything: become a well-rounded fighter – don’t just be good at one thing; be good at everything.’ – Brock Lesnar

‘We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.’ – Solomon Short

‘I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That’s like a free compliment and you don’t even gotta be smart to notice it.’ – Mitch Hedberg

‘At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions… all good things.’ – Peter Diamandis

‘The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.’ – Kumar Mangalam Birla

‘If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?’ – Scott Adams

‘A smart contract is a mechanism involving digital assets and two or more parties, where some or all of the parties put assets in, and assets are automatically redistributed among those parties according to a formula based on certain data that is not known at the time the contract is initiated.’ – Vitalik Buterin

‘Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.’ – Samuel Goldwyn

‘Just because I don’t have a college degree doesn’t mean I am not smart!’ – Emma Stone

‘To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.’ – Kamala Harris

‘Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.’ – Steve Wozniak

‘You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.’ – Erica Jong

‘The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can’t even spell. I don’t even have a high school diploma. I’m smart, but you can’t prove it on paper.’ – Ron White

‘If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.’ – Mario Cuomo

‘People are trying to be smart – all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it’s harder than most people think.’ – Charlie Munger

‘Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That’s what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.’ – Kobe Bryant

‘The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.’ – Elon Musk

‘Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It’s just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don’t buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.’ – Ashton Kutcher

‘Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.’ – Natalie Portman

‘When you’re a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you’re smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.’ – Samuel Witwer

‘Every opportunity that comes your way, you can’t take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can’t be such an elitist, to say no, that’s not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.’ – Chris Klein

‘When we talk about ‘smart transportation,’ it is more than moving cargo from A to B. Digitization within transport and logistics means seamless service to our customers, visibility in the supply chain, and driving a more efficient business.’ – Soren Skou

‘The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.’ – Patrick Lencioni

‘Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.’ – Eugene McCarthy

‘I was a smart kid. I went to private school in middle school and got kicked out.’ – Travis Scott

‘I’m a meathead, man. You’ve got smart people, and you’ve got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘I think it’s cool to be smart, and I think it’s sexy to be smart.’ – Stacey Farber

‘I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.’ – Anthony LaPaglia

‘Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different… to think out of the box.’ – Walter Isaacson

‘The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.’ – Virginia Postrel

‘I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.’ – Michelle Obama

‘A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.’ – Lucille Ball

‘Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people – to build something isn’t a one-man show. It’s more important to have smart people who really believe in what you’re doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.’ – Niklas Zennstrom

‘Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they’re just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.’ – Garrison Keillor

‘I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.’ – Mitski

‘There’s book smart, there is street smart, there’s relationship smart, there’s too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn’t know every kind of smart. There’s money smart, there’s movie smart, there’s computer smart. There’s just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.’ – J. B. Smoove

‘I’d always rather be lucky than smart.’ – Donald Luskin

‘Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.’ – Doug Larson

‘In the 1940s, economics started getting highly mathematical. It was basically because economists weren’t smart enough to write down models of real behavior that they started writing down models of highly rational behavior – and they kind of forgot about humans.’ – Richard Thaler

‘Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.’ – Wendell Mayes

‘Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.’ – Joe Biden

‘I believe whatever smart, ambitious people are working on will be the trend of the future. I do think that it’s worth thinking critically about what the future will be.’ – Sam Altman

‘Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don’t share your ideas, smart people can’t do anything about them, and you’ll remain anonymous and powerless.’ – Vint Cerf

‘A smart girl leaves before she is left.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘None of us is as smart as all of us.’ – Phil Condit

‘I personally think that gentrification happens long before you start seeing white people in formerly people-of-color neighborhoods. It starts happening when we start telling the young, hard-working, quote-unquote ‘smart’ kids that they need to measure success by how far they get away from our communities.’ – Majora Carter

‘I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it’s smart to listen to other people’s advice, but at the end of the day, you’re the only one who can tell you what’s right for you.’ – Jennifer Lopez

‘My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, ‘Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don’t put everything in one basket,’ but she let me explore and be creative.’ – Queen Latifah

‘I was just excited to have challenging work to do and smart people to work with.’ – Katherine Johnson

‘I would argue that’s because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.’ – John Hickenlooper

‘It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.’ – Elena Kagan

‘With a fixed mindset, you’re so worried about how smart or talented you are, you don’t take on challenges. You don’t try new things.’ – Carol S. Dweck

‘One reason some people are long-winded is because they’re trying to impress their conversational counterpart with how smart they are, often because they don’t actually feel that way underneath. If this is the case for you, realize that continuing to talk will only cause the other person to be less impressed.’ – Mark Goulston

‘If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.’ – Casey Stengel

‘Nobody is accidentally in Alaska. The people who are in Alaska are there because they choose to be, so they’ve sort of got a real frontier ethic. The people are incredibly friendly, interesting, smart people – but they also stay out of each other’s business.’ – Marcus Sakey

‘I’m no genius, but I’m real smart in one area – I picked the right mate.’ – Rob Lowe

‘We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn’t just being book-smart or having a college degree; it’s trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.’ – Tabatha Coffey

‘You should be smart enough to know that you don’t know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do.’ – Diane Kruger

‘A wise man has to always listen to the peers he surrounds around himself. That’s why you surround yourself with other smart people. Captain Kirk keep Mr. Spock right beside him.’ – Rza

‘I’m not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.’ – Guy Ritchie

‘I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.’ – Joan Rivers

‘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

‘They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I’m the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I’ve ever gotten into the ring with.’ – George Foreman

‘When I was in high school, there was ‘Superbad’ and ‘The Girl Next Door’ and ‘Wedding Crashers’ and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that’s smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like ‘Superbad.’ That movie was so good and so funny.’ – Miles Teller

‘How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?’ – Lou Holtz

‘If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.’ – Erik Hersman

‘I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‘call attention to yourself,’ or ‘think you were smart.’ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.’ – Alice Munro

‘I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.’ – Virat Kohli

‘I learned really valuable lessons from ‘Blue’s Clues.’ I’d repeat them every day. ‘You can do things. You are smart.” – Steve Burns

‘I like information. I love when smart people make me think of something in a new way.’ – Terry Francona

‘What happens when an industry transitions from using one or more ‘smart’ and centralized networks to using a common, decentralized, open, and dumb network? A tsunami of innovation that was pent up for decades is suddenly released.’ – Andreas Antonopoulos

‘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

‘If children who commit crimes are not given the opportunity of a second chance, they may die in prison for acts made before having developed the cognitive and emotional skills needed to make informed and smart decisions and choices.’ – Alan K. Simpson

‘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

‘When I see a dolphin, I know it’s just as smart as I am.’ – Captain Beefheart

‘Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you’re a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don’t go hungry, you’re a moocher?’ – Jon Stewart

‘If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.’ – Norman Mailer

‘The blockchain allows our smart devices to speak to each other better and faster.’ – Melanie Swan

‘I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I’ve found them to be real smart and good workers.’ – Loretta Lynn

‘Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.’ – Seth Godin

‘The nice thing about Squirrel Girl is that she’s smart, and she looks for situations that don’t necessarily involve punching people all the time.’ – Ryan North

‘I think anyone who uses the web is smart and will profit.’ – Jason Mraz

‘Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.’ – Dan Ariely

‘The laws of nature tell us there’s a finite amount of any substance on the face of the earth, and at some point, that’s going to run out. And if we’re smart and we have some grace and we have some willingness about our destiny, then we will take ourselves into the renewable world.’ – Mark Ruffalo

‘Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.’ – Mariano Rivera

‘I remember as a young man seeing these bigger-than-life, strong images of black manhood in the form of Jim Brown and Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Billy Dee Williams. All these guys were these alpha males who were smart, attractive. I said, ‘Wow, I want to be like that.” – Michael Jai White

‘If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.’ – Jurgen Klopp

‘I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.’ – Carrie Fisher

‘I’m just smart enough to know what it is I don’t know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you’re going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.’ – Ronald D. Moore

‘I won’t ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason.’ – Derrick Rose

‘I’m not smart enough and I don’t know enough about what’s going on.’ – George Clooney

‘I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn’t survive. The smart ones got out.’ – Paul Mooney

‘If we’re going to compete in this century, we have to compete on the basis of how smart we are.’ – Anthony Albanese

‘You could tell three things about Bill Gates pretty quickly. He was really smart. He was really competitive; he wanted to show you how smart he was. And he was really, really persistent.’ – Paul Allen

‘Very smart people are often tricked by hackers, by phishing. I don’t exclude myself from that. It’s about being smarter than a hacker. Not about being smart.’ – Harper Reed

‘Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It’s not a place that’s built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it’s glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it’s very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.’ – Baz Luhrmann

‘I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people – God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad – and they had very little.’ – Elizabeth Warren

‘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

‘Xavi was a big idol in my youth because he was smart in his head. He was not the biggest player because of his body length, but he was one of the greatest players because he was always smart in his mind. He had really good technique.’ – Joshua Kimmich

‘John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he was always very tall and gangly, but he was smart and used his physicality in a very funny way. I used to think, ‘Well he came from Weston and he did it, so there’s a chance for me.” – Stephen Merchant

‘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.’ – Hakeem Olajuwon

‘I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don’t know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.’ – David Baker

‘Of course I am tough, but I am smart, too. I’m more smart than tough. People watching my record and say that this guy is tough. This is not about tough; this is about mind. You think when you fight. This is about everything.’ – Khabib Nurmagomedov

‘The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.’ – Sarah Palin

‘Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‘I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.’ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.’ – Joel Osteen

‘An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.’ – Laurence J. Peter

‘I don’t know how smart you have to be to be a marketing major.’ – Jason Kelce

‘You know, to marry a man like Donald, you need to know who you are. You need to know who you are, and you need to be very strong and smart.’ – Melania Trump

‘I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.’ – Barbara Mandrell

‘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

‘I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We’ve had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn’t been for the American nuclear umbrella.’ – Haley Barbour

‘If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.’ – Bruno Mars

‘I want to show how strong and smart women are. We go through so much. We need to see that on screen. Those female parts are not many, but they are out there, and I have to find some. I want that chance.’ – Ana de Armas

‘You can find all types of men anywhere, but a smart man will always make you feel important and understood. And a woman can always tell when a man does it genuinely and effortlessly.’ – James Marsden

‘Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.’ – Robert Sapolsky

‘Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He’s a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn’t as smart as he thinks he is.’ – Alex Pareene

‘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

‘Nobody likes a smart alec. Which is why it’s always better for your career to be wrong and in company rather than right and on your own.’ – Daniel Hannan

‘Some guys play with their heads. That’s okay. You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.’ – Yul Brynner

‘Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he’s very funny and very smart.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘From the boys’ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.’ – Robert Baden-Powell

‘Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I’m realistic about the success I’m having and how quickly it can go away. What’s important is to be smart about it.’ – Matthew Perry

‘I’m not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.’ – William Hazlitt

‘If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It’s always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error.’ – Ryan Holiday

‘If you have time to be with a dog, and the dog is smart, you come to understand the dog, and the dog understands you. They’re not hard to train. But they have to be smart, and you have to spend time with them. It’s like coaching. I was a better coach when I had smart players.’ – Bud Grant

‘Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.’ – Susan Orlean

‘I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn’t not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.’ – Richard Carmona

‘Anyone who thinks it’s smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.’ – Malcolm Turnbull

‘I didn’t say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.’ – Willie Mays

‘I don’t think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.’ – Rickey Henderson

‘I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret.’ – William J. Clinton

‘I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.’ – Nicole Polizzi

‘In one world, effort is a bad thing. It, like failure, means you’re not smart or talented. If you were, you wouldn’t need effort. In the other world, effort is what makes you smart or talented.’ – Carol S. Dweck

‘We assumed the customers were smart and that they’ll buy what they like, not what the ads tell them to buy.’ – Renzo Rosso

‘Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.’ – Naveen Jain

‘Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it’s based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky – to think of serendipitous as smart.’ – Ethan Zuckerman

‘I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and talented, and we can problem solve together.’ – Tom Cruise

‘I’m attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?’ – Tom Brady

‘Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn’t make it: It’s the ones that might have been created but weren’t.’ – Eric Ries

‘What I really love about philosophers and psychologists is that they sound smart.’ – Yoko Taro

‘History proves… that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.’ – Ben Bernanke

‘Smart property might be created by embedding smart contracts in physical objects.’ – Nick Szabo

‘I don’t try to represent myself in a way that’s not connected with my everyday reality, because I’m not smart enough to do that.’ – Katya Zamolodchikova

‘If you’re trying to get ahead in the corporate world, appearing smart in meetings should be your top priority. This can be hard if you find yourself daydreaming about Mexico, margaritas or queso cheese dip.’ – Sarah Cooper

‘I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.’ – Howard Rheingold

‘Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.’ – James Boswell

‘I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.’ – Rem Koolhaas

‘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

‘It was cool to play an African princess who’s the smartest in the whole world. That never happens. So I hope all the young girls can feel smart, too.’ – Letitia Wright

‘Soon, I’m going to meet somebody around my own age, and she’s going to be smart and beautiful, and I’m going to date her daughter.’ – Bob Saget

‘A Smart City cannot be imagined without proper recycling.’ – Rajnath Singh

‘My generation, we’re so smart and opinionated, and we know the world we want to live in; we know the future we want. We’re such a liberal, forward-thinking generation that’s been held back by an older generation that doesn’t understand it, doesn’t want the world to progress quickly because of old ideologies.’ – Yungblud

‘You can type things on the Internet. You can have no credentials in any area and just get on your smart phone and write whatever you want.’ – Roman Reigns

‘It doesn’t matter how tough you are. It doesn’t matter how smart you are or what a great leader you are. None of that stuff matters if you can’t put the ball where you have to put it.’ – Troy Aikman

‘The man I respect the most in the business – and he’s in the hedge fund business – is probably Stan Druckenmiller. He’s just so smart and so good and so up on everything. I think he’s fantastic investor.’ – Julian Robertson

‘All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn’t matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn’t matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I’m much the same.’ – Park Chan-wook

‘Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.’ – Julius Rosenwald

‘Smart development builds on a region’s own skills, resources and local businesses. Dumb growth invites a big corporation in, surrenders control and profits to a distant headquarters, undercuts local manufacturers, and risks layoffs without warning.’ – Donella Meadows

‘For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn’t do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn’t fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.’ – Bruce Springsteen

‘PewDiePie’s a smart guy.’ – Tana Mongeau

‘Anna Wintour is a very smart woman. She’s a Scorpio, like me.’ – RuPaul

‘For me, the most important consideration is to choose attire that is functional, but looks stylish too. That means going for colors that are understated and use smart fabrics.’ – Chris Hoy

‘Give your kid some credit for being smart – just because they read about something doesn’t mean they will do it.’ – Lauren Myracle

‘I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?’ – Philip Zimbardo

‘For me, my phone is a one-stop shop; I do everything on my phone – email, browsing, listening to music, reading, navigation and using smart apps. Maps, I use that a lot. I think that’s the best app ever.’ – Diana Penty

‘I’m the smart aleck. The class clown. I’m the guy who does the song nobody expects.’ – Brad Paisley

‘You have to be smart. The easy days are over.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘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

‘Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.’ – Ben Horowitz

‘I’ve always thought my strengths were I’m smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely struggle with feeling confident.’ – Lauren Graham

‘When you’re a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don’t even think things are low art.’ – Patrick Stump

‘It’s not smart to get caught without a gun.’ – Dan Bilzerian

‘Unlike ‘real relationships’, ‘virtual relationships’ are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.’ – Zygmunt Bauman

‘If it is a rental property, we’ll typically keep it fairly neutral. If it’s a vacation property, we have a lot more fun and do things a little more edgy and exciting. When we’re flipping, we obviously want to make smart decisions and do things that produce great returns.’ – Scott McGillivray

‘Work smart. Get things done.’ – Susan Wojcicki

‘We need to believe that we can achieve progress in fixing our broken immigration system, prioritizing smart border security investments, cracking down on those who are trafficking and smuggling, and relieving the ongoing humanitarian crisis at our southern border.’ – Abigail Spanberger

‘Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.’ – Ingrid Newkirk

‘Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.’ – Richard Roeper

‘I like to think I’m pretty smart with what I was able to do academically, but whenever I get on the field I turn into the Incredible Hulk and I am unstoppable.’ – Robert Griffin III

‘I think ‘G.I. Joe’ is a perfect example of how I’m the world’s worst businessman. If I were smart, I’d be writing ‘World War Z Part 12’, but I have to go where the muse leads, and I’ve always been a huge ‘G.I. Joe’ fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid.’ – Max Brooks

‘Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It’s because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.’ – Wale

‘Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.’ – Guy Kawasaki

‘My parents were just as smart as I am, just as hard working if not harder; I think my father and grandfather were probably better men, yet I’ve been able to accomplish things professionally that they were not able to.’ – Marco Rubio

‘There are many talented and smart kids from underprivileged backgrounds but don’t get the same opportunity as a kid that has got parents that are well off.’ – Leon Edwards

‘Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.’ – Narendra Modi

‘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

‘The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn’t hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.’ – Clayton M. Christensen

‘It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.’ – Don Herold

‘A.I. will make it possible for the Internet to directly engage people in the real world, through robotics and drones and little machines that will do smart things by themselves.’ – Jensen Huang

‘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

‘It’s a world of multiple screens, smart displays, with tons of low-cost computing, with big sensors built into devices. At Google, we ask how to bring together something seamless and beautiful and intuitive across all these screens.’ – Sundar Pichai

‘Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It’s a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.’ – James G. Stavridis

‘Everybody can be smart.’ – Jose Mourinho

‘I’m going to college. I don’t care if it ruins my career. I’d rather be smart than a movie star.’ – Natalie Portman

‘When I look at my catalog, most of my songs are about love or relationships. And I’m smart enough to say if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.’ – Shaggy

‘Exams are not very hard. People find them hard because they don’t work – it’s just a matter of labour. Once you actually start doing it, it’s like cracking eggs. You don’t need to be smart. As everything is in life, it’s about concentration.’ – Lawrence Osborne

”Getting smart on crime’ does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.’ – Kamala Harris

‘I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.’ – Eminem

‘Men always look smart in a well-fitted, tailored suit. Conversely, they can be incredibly handsome in jeans combined with a cashmere jumper or a beaten-up leather jacket or even just a cotton T-shirt.’ – Tamara Mellon

‘I would love to make my entire career as the guy who did not get cheered. Of course, I’m still going to get cheered by people who think they’re smart, and that’s fine – they’re acknowledging how good I am at my job – but I don’t want cheers; I want the boos. I love it.’ – Dolph Ziggler

‘Marcus Smart – I love playing against him because he takes defense as seriously as I do. I don’t flop, though. People are always telling me I need to learn to flop. Nah.’ – Jrue Holiday

‘I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There’s a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don’t have when you’re younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better.’ – Jennifer Lopez

‘Why do I write? It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.’ – Jonathan Safran Foer

‘I was determined to make a movie – about families and a love story – that black women would be proud to see and which would depict them as being smart, loving, sensitive, sexy, and funny.’ – Salim Akil

‘I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn’t serious because I was smart. I wasn’t like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious – like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.’ – J. Cole

‘If you’re looking for ways of getting quick communication, maybe texting is the way to go. People can’t walk these days without having one hand balancing a smart phone. If that’s the way people are going to live, it is the case that something that vibrates in their hand is going to get their attention more quickly than an email.’ – Ray Tomlinson

‘I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.’ – Biz Stone

‘The Duffers are very smart young men.’ – Caleb McLaughlin

‘We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs.’ – Anthony Pratt

‘It’s better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.’ – John H. Johnson

‘I actually was a good student, but I never applied myself ’cause I was always like, ‘I don’t love doing this.’ I wasn’t passionate about school. I always got a B just to pass. But what’s crazy is I got a 29 on my ACT test without even studying. So I was always, like, just smart – but never really cared.’ – Jake Paul

‘In the developed world, we are surrounded by electronics – from the computers on our desks to the smart phones in our pockets to the thermostats in our homes to our data in the virtual cloud.’ – Joe Kaeser

‘I always polish my shoes and clean the bottom of them before I go out. I also wipe my handbags. I keep them in little bags to stop them getting dusty. You have to keep your accessories looking smart and clean.’ – Jerry Hall

‘I like a good suspense thriller when it’s smart and well done like ‘Armed Response’ is.’ – Seth Rollins

‘There’s always going to be someone out there… who doesn’t believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you’re not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing.’ – Jimmy Fallon

‘If you’re smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. I’ve never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular.’ – Mohamed ElBaradei

‘Republicans are relentless and they’re smart, too – they’re not all dumb – and on Election Day, they’ll be up at five in the morning.’ – Michael Moore

‘I don’t like to eat octopus. They’re so smart.’ – Patti Harrison

‘Growing up, when I was younger, I didn’t feel all that tough or smart or strong. As I got older, I was able to discover my own strength.’ – Alexandra Daddario

‘Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn’t it be smart to adopt television as our instrument? – Adolph Zukor’ – Adolph Zukor

‘In the smart home of the future, there should be a robot designed to talk to you. With enough display technology, connectivity, and voice recognition, this human-interface robot or head-of-household robot will serve as a portal to the digital domain. It becomes your interface to your robot-enabled home.’ – Colin Angle

‘I’ve always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won’t play forever. Some don’t know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.’ – Mark Wahlberg

‘You know, ‘Professor Obama’ has been a label applied to him by Republicans and Democrats alike. He’s a very smart guy. But I think he’d be, you know, better served not to spend so much time trying to impress us with his particular position on an issue and understand that there are things upon which we simply have a disagreement.’ – Mitch McConnell

‘I’m sick of pundits. Don’t get me wrong. I love the guests I have on every day. I love their energy and smarts and sass. But I’m sick of pundits because they don’t always have their ears to the ground.’ – Brooke Baldwin

‘I have surrounded myself with very smart people.’ – Dolly Parton

‘Noah’s daughter is different from the girls of ‘Suburgatory.’ She goes to Brown, so she’s in college, and she’s very smart. And his wife is very much a very strong woman. She’s certainly in charge at his house. She’s Dallas’s polar opposite.’ – Alan Tudyk

‘Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.’ – Kim Harrison

‘For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I’m convinced that ‘the right people’ are the ones who have three virtues in common – humility, hunger, and people smarts.’ – Patrick Lencioni

‘There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.’ – Joss Whedon

‘Donald Trump has got unlimited number of insecurities. But the No. 1 one thing, I would say, is his insecurity with his intellect. There’s a reason why he always refers to where he went to college and, you know, that, ‘I’m a smart person.’ You know, it may be narcissism. But I think it really reflects an insecurity.’ – Mark Cuban

‘The next generation did not seem to be smart enough to realise that you have to work to be at the top and to stay at the top. You can have talent, but if you do not work hard it’s not going to happen.’ – Viv Richards

‘Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.’ – Daniel Goleman

‘Technology is changing so fast that investment in hardware is getting riskier everyday. On the other hand, whether it is traditional computers or smart gadgets which are part of the convergence technologies of the future, some planning of hardware needs is still important.’ – Sucheta Dalal

‘In grade school I was smart, but I didn’t have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.’ – David Spade

‘I’m into hiring smart guys; I’m into hiring guys who can think at a higher level, that can offer ideas.’ – Sean McDermott

‘I can’t remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn’t real smart, but I said, ‘I don’t like the sound of that.” – Joe Gibbs

‘In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it felt delicious reading him.’ – Greta Gerwig

‘I knew that I was smart enough to learn. I knew that I could learn, if I could just go to school and not hear gunshots.’ – Ger Duany

‘If I were to look in the United States or in Europe, in some of the garages, you would have a Bentley or two Bentleys or a high-end Mercedes, and you may find a Smart also in that same garage because that person thinks it’s a fun extra car to have. He may have four cars but also have a Smart because he thinks it is cute.’ – Ratan Tata

‘We’re all smart enough to figure out Xs and Os – it’s basketball, it’s not advanced calculus. But the most important thing is can you get your message across to players? Do they believe in you, and do they want to compete for you?’ – J. B. Bickerstaff

‘Fish aren’t smart. It’s not like they have advanced degrees.’ – Mike Leach

‘If you’re a gazelle, you don’t have a very complex emotional life, despite being a social species. But primates are just smart enough that they can think their bodies into working differently. It’s not until you get to primates that you get things that look like depression.’ – Robert Sapolsky

‘Our message to parents is to focus on the process the child engages in, such as trying hard or focusing on the task – what specific things they’re doing rather than, ‘You’re so smart. You’re so good at this.’ Although it’s never too late to change, what you do early matters.’ – Carol S. Dweck

‘I always know how to play this game. It’s about being smart.’ – Ed Reed

‘You can’t deny the truth. And that’s what makes smart comedy so good.’ – Iliza Shlesinger

‘When you hit a three-run triple, do you really need to get on third base, or do you need to stand on the double? You gotta be as smart as you can.’ – Bryce Harper

‘We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we’ve created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we’re still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.’ – Bootsy Collins

‘I was born on TV, meaning that’s where I caught my break. So that’s where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.’ – Taylor Hicks

”Beatrice Cenci’ was an amazing film. If it were released today it’d win Best Picture. It’s so well done, it’s so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.’ – Eli Roth

‘In the corporate world, there is no ground more fertile for appearing smart than the rich earth that is electronic communication. Your email writing, sending and ignoring skills are just as important as your nodding skills, and even more important than your copying and pasting skills.’ – Sarah Cooper

‘I liked working with smart people.’ – Katherine Johnson

‘I want to be somebody that is known as a smart manager that makes solid decisions, that is prepared.’ – Aaron Boone

‘Show your kids that needs and wants are two different things. The best way to teach our kids to be smart consumers – and savvy savers – is to model good behavior for them.’ – Jean Chatzky

‘I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I’m just an idiot.’ – Marlon Wayans

‘I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘I don’t want a president like me! I suck, okay. I want an elitist, smart guy.’ – Denis Leary

‘In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is, when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn’t work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself.’ – John P. Kotter

‘More than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. Smart companies make certain their managers know how to balance being professional with being human. These are the bosses who celebrate an employee’s success, empathize with those going through hard times, and challenge people, even when it hurts.’ – Travis Bradberry

”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

‘The Lord wants us to follow His righteous life, but yet we have to exist in the 21st century. You can’t be going about riding a bicycle and to travel the world… that is not smart.’ – Benny Hinn

”The Power of Habit’ is the exact kind of non-fiction I love. It’s smart and interesting, and it changes your perception how you do what you do or why you are who you are.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that’s compounded by a factor of trillions.’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn

‘There is unfortunately a world that still exists that dismisses fashion as being a little bit frivolous and the people who work in it are not so smart.’ – Anna Wintour

‘I don’t mind playing someone’s girlfriend or wife if I have something to say, if I bring something to the picture, if I can be strong and powerful and say smart things. If not, then it’s just boring.’ – Ana de Armas

‘Sephora’s business is really smart and clever – I’m all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.’ – Marc Jacobs

‘There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.’ – Ben Carson

‘I’m not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I’m grateful to her for. She made me read ‘War and Peace.’ The whole thing. It was amazing, but I had to hide it. You can’t walk round reading ‘War and Peace’ – it’s like you’re in a comedy sketch and you think you’re smart.’ – Peter Capaldi

‘I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.’ – Michelle Obama

‘I remember when I was a kid I thought I could either be an athletic water drinker, like an Olympic-level water drinker, or I could invent Windex. Which I thought was really smart, because it already existed.’ – Devendra Banhart

‘My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.’ – Frank Ocean

‘Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘I’m at least smart enough to know I could never fill Billy Graham’s shoes, but I’m grateful he gave me an opportunity to help him finish his race on earth well and to continue his life’s work.’ – Franklin Graham

‘Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.’ – Janine Benyus

‘I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.’ – Dolly Parton

‘A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which – if she wasn’t smart enough to camouflage herself – she generally paid the price.’ – Stacy Schiff

‘Otherwise I don’t read much adult poetry at all, because I’m not smart enough and mostly I don’t get it.’ – Jack Prelutsky

‘Johnny Rotten. He’s a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he’d stand up and holler. He’s funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don’t think he’s a jerk because he isn’t.’ – Captain Beefheart

‘I was asked once if I ever got tired of playing bimbos, and I answered that I’ve never played a bimbo. I’ve always played smart, manipulative women. Marilyn Monroe and Judy Holliday, who were not stupid, could play stupid really well, but I don’t do it well.’ – Morgan Fairchild

‘Lion’s mane may be our first ‘smart’ mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.’ – Paul Stamets

‘Obviously I’m fast, and I’m going to have to utilize that speed, but I’m also going to have to be smart. I’m also strong, and I have a punch, so I’m going to have to use all my qualities to be able to fight against Angulo, and I just feel whoever’s the best prepared that night is going to win.’ – Canelo Alvarez

‘I was raised that way: don’t get mad, get smart.’ – Andrew Young

‘A smartphone is a computer – it’s not built using a computer – the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free – you should insist on that – applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.’ – Richard Stallman

‘Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that’s their downfall.’ – Simone Schwarz-Bart

‘Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.’ – Theodore C. Sorensen

‘I was smart, to tell you the truth. I’m not really bright, but I’m not stupid.’ – Bobby Vinton

‘I’m a meathead. I can’t help it, man. You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she’s not a putdown of women. She’s smart, she’s trustful, she’s loyal, she’s sassy.’ – Flip Wilson

‘Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘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

‘By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.’ – Jason Bateman

‘Barack himself is very much a regular guy, not a silver spoon, incredibly smart, but, you know, he’s a scholarship kid, made good use of the resources that were available to him, worked incredibly hard.’ – Maya Soetoro-Ng

‘Shawn Michaels is one of those wise-cracking guys who would say a smart comment to you, but then if you face him, he would run and cry somewhere.’ – Scott Steiner

‘I do consider myself to be a smart, tough girl.’ – Alexandra Daddario

‘Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn’t get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they’re going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?’ – Luis von Ahn

‘JaVale McGee is one of the smartest guys I know. Like, he’s a nerd, plays with gadgets, and is into technology. He’s funny – he’s got crazy jokes, and his timing with jokes is really funny. You have to be really smart to think the way he does.’ – Andre Iguodala

‘Praise your child explicitly for how capable they are of learning rather than telling them how smart they are.’ – Carol S. Dweck

‘We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate.’ – Deval Patrick

‘My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.’ – Dolph Lundgren

‘A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers, vendors, delivery people, and of course, customers.’ – Harvey Mackay

‘Chris Jericho know Iron Sheik the legend. He know if he get smart with me, I break his back.’ – The Iron Sheik

‘I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.’ – Kim Kardashian

‘Our challenge isn’t that we can’t be motivated. It’s not that we aren’t smart, excitable, or that we lack passion – what we don’t have is the ability to sustain motivation over time.’ – Brendon Burchard

‘Just really, really believe in what you’re trying to do. Don’t let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.’ – Luke Bryan

‘If you use your smart toothbrush, the data can be immediately sent to your dentist and your insurance company, but it also allows someone from the NSA to know what was in your mouth three weeks ago.’ – Evgeny Morozov

‘My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn’t like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.’ – Nate Diaz

‘Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.’ – Gracie Allen

‘Computer science is not just for smart ‘nerds’ in hoodies coding in basements. Coding is extremely creative and is an integral part of almost every industry.’ – Reshma Saujani

‘My own teenage style was modelled on Barbara Hulanicki’s Biba look, which was based around smart 1930s chic. Roxy Music crystallised that look and made it high fashion. You felt that they were living the dream.’ – Toyah Willcox

‘I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.’ – Aaron Sorkin

‘When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year’s salary to ‘go pursue a dream.’ If you’re stupid, you panic and get another job. If you’re smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.’ – Bruce Schneier

‘An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me fending off atomic knee drops from my two kids in our no-holds-barred pillow fight/steel cage matches. They are a ruthless tag team.’ – Willie Geist

‘Honestly so much money gets taken for taxes from contest winnings that you have to be smart with it. People think that because I won 200 grand, I actually got 200 grand, but a big chunk of that gets taken out. You have to be very smart with your money.’ – Nyjah Huston

‘Because we are communal creatures, if you’re with people who think you’re smart, you’re smart, and if they think you’re dumb, you’re dumb.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘I don’t look at myself as a hero or smart person. I have a seventh-grade education, but I’ve had a lot of fun.’ – Bobby Heenan

‘We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.’ – Stephen King

‘If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in ‘A Little Night Music’ – Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best… need I say more?’ – Nancy Allen

‘My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I’m smart and have opinions worth being heard.’ – Ursula Burns

‘Sometimes I’m more stubborn than I am smart.’ – Pat Summitt

‘Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.’ – Scott Adams

‘I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I’ve done that are good, and I’m proud of them. There are things that I’m really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I’m cool and ever so smart.’ – David Crosby

‘If you get into a fight, don’t take your helmet off. We’re looking for smart football players, not dumb ones.’ – Mike Leach

‘The most important thing you can do when starting a business is surround yourself with smart people who know a lot more than you do in certain realms.’ – Lauren Bush

‘You can hate me for being a woman, you can hate me for being smart, you can hate me for being funny, but you hate me because I am doing something you could never do. End of story.’ – Iliza Shlesinger

‘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

‘They say somebody’s ‘street smart.’ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.’ – Dolly Parton

‘The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.’ – Jean Baudrillard

‘I always wanted to become a good role model for kids as a professional football player. Unfortunately, I didn’t attain that through football, but I was smart enough to realize that professional wrestling provided another opportunity for that.’ – Bill Goldberg

‘In life, if you’re not learning from every experience, even the bad ones, you’re really messing up. That’s the marker of a smart, intelligent individual.’ – Seth Rollins

‘All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn’t pretend for a moment that I hadn’t made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.’ – Michael Moritz

‘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

‘Some just don’t know the fundamentals of the game. And a smart player can contain guys like that.’ – George Mikan

‘Like everyone, appearing smart during meetings is my top priority. Sometimes this can be difficult if you start daydreaming about your next vacation, your next nap, or bacon.’ – Sarah Cooper

‘Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!’ – Steve Wozniak

‘I train as smart as I can. I’m not concerned what others think. I do what works for me.’ – Phil Heath

‘We are doing politics differently – smart, populist, political movement.’ – Maxime Bernier

‘I’d like to be smart, fun, and real. It’s very easy to just put together a pretty dress, some heels, and some jewels. I don’t want to be that girl. It’s all about being brave, taking risks. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.’ – Ella Purnell

‘Since pre-Emancipation, black ‘females’ have had to fight for the whites-only privilege of being deemed ‘ladies’: cultured, educated, sexually desirable in a socially respected way. Michelle Obama has managed to get all this without yielding her right to be smart and strong-willed.’ – Margo Jefferson

‘In Europe they call geeks ‘smart people,’ and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn’t value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.’ – James Marsters

‘The American people voted for a president, Donald Trump, who’s very tough, very strong, very aggressive on terrorism, but at the same time smart. At the same time sophisticated. At the same time, heeding the wisdom of our founders who warned about entangling foreign engagement.’ – Stephen Miller

‘I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She’s incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she’s effective.’ – Kamala Harris

‘When we praise children for their intelligence, we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart; don’t risk making mistakes.’ – Carol S. Dweck

‘How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It’s what men have kept secret for so long.’ – Steve Harvey

‘A woman who knows that she doesn’t have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.’ – Benedict Cumberbatch

‘I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That’s why I wrote ‘Smart Women.’ I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids.’ – Judy Blume

‘One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it’s making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it’s the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you’re dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.’ – Reid Hoffman

‘I started performing in 1950 at the age of 16 when I joined the Burton Lester’s Midgets as a performer. Shortly after, I became a DJ with Mecca Organization before joining Billy Smart’s Circus as a clown and shadow Ringmaster.’ – Kenny Baker

‘Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.’ – Travis Bradberry

‘It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!’ – Dan Ariely

‘After all these years, I’ve done well and I’m cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I’ve saved some paper, everybody’s healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it’s all good.’ – Eddie Murphy

‘I’ve never met a funny person who wasn’t smart. I’ve met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I’ve never met a funny person who wasn’t smart.’ – Rob Lowe

‘As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented – even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.’ – Barry Ritholtz

‘Rigondeaux is a high-class boxer. He is smart, has speed and skill.’ – Vasyl Lomachenko

‘Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don’t turn into that grown-up who they won’t come to.’ – Lauren Myracle

‘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.

‘I’ve made more mistakes than anyone I know. Sometimes I learned something, and sometimes I just find myself doing it again. It makes me mad when I wasn’t smart enough to learn the first time. You just think it’s going to be different the next time, and it’s not, as it turns out.’ – Jim Pattison

‘A very bland eleven-year-old, playing computer games. I went to a local primary school but I wasn’t anything special or anything insanely interesting. I didn’t have a crazy personality. I was somewhat book smart, but I wasn’t hanging off the teacher, nor was I messing up in class. I wasn’t doing much to disrupt anything. I was just there, existing.’ – Santan Dave

‘We shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.’ – Dan Quayle

‘Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won’t get much out of him, but with that other guy I can’t keep what I’ve got.’ – Lewis B. Hershey

‘A manager’s job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.’ – Earl Weaver

‘Being a Southern person and a blonde, it’s not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.’ – Reese Witherspoon

‘Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it’ll be because of the president. And if we lose, it’ll be because of me.’ – Karl Rove

‘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

‘Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.’ – Janet Napolitano

‘Yeah, it’s tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I’m really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it’s true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.’ – Tina Fey

‘I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a – you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others – and to yourself.’ – Catherine Zeta-Jones

‘I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn’t until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.’ – Catherine Zeta-Jones

‘Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world.’ – Jeff Goldblum

‘I can’t say enough about how I’m against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help.’ – Erika Christensen

‘You’re looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.’ – Herb Brooks

‘Most pitchers are too smart to manage.’ – Jim Palmer

‘Don’t dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.’ – Bruce Paltrow

‘The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart.’ – Rasmus Lerdorf

‘My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican – just because I think reporters are smart.’ – Jerry Springer

‘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

‘My role isn’t to be politically smart. My role is to do what’s right under the constitution. And if that’s politically unpopular, so be it.’ – Rose Bird

‘Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.’ – Tucker Carlson

‘This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.’ – John Aniston

‘In ten minutes, I’m thinking, ‘OK, you know what? I love these guys. They’re really smart, they’re really good, they’ve got a good sense of comedy, under their guidance, I think maybe this could come out OK.’ But I didn’t like the part.’ – Eugene Levy

‘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

‘I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader… I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice… mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.’ – Kenneth Koch

‘I don’t want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!’ – Nick Hornby

‘And I have a really great agent and I know it’s almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.’ – Patricia Clarkson

‘I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.’ – Suzanne Vega

‘Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don’t see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.’ – Suzanne Vega

‘Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.’ – Robbie Coltrane

‘Reese Witherspoon. She’s sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she’s smart.’ – Don Bluth

‘But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn’t look very smart.’ – Brent Scowcroft

‘I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war… to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.’ – Pete Stark

‘I never took my SAT’s. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I’m sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.’ – Scott Foley

‘I want to make smart television.’ – Michael Ironside

‘I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.’ – James Daly

‘In a certain sense, this guy – who is one of the most evil people in the book – he’s not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he’s doing, he’s smart and he’s got the big picture in mind. He’s like the Godfather.’ – Kevin J. Anderson

‘You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience’s attention without extraordinary physical equipment.’ – Judy Holliday

‘My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.’ – Eric Allin Cornell

‘Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He’s a smart guy, and I’m sure there was a metaphoric level, I’m not denying that, but let’s face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.’ – Chester Brown

‘Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.’ – Esther Williams

‘Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office.’ – Betty Hill

‘Many of them are doing it because they are concerned about smart growth.’ – Lee Scott

‘I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they’ll collect my work.’ – Andres Serrano

‘I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn’t know anything.’ – Gil Kane

‘None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We’re in the middle.’ – Daniel Johns

‘I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to.’ – Rob Morrow

‘The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.’ – Gerrit Smith

‘Killers can seem smart when you can’t figure out who they are.’ – Pat Brown

‘But how does it feel to plug into a system that’s say, a million times as smart as a person.’ – Rudy Rucker

‘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 wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I’ve been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who’s very smart, and wicked.’ – Sigourney Weaver

‘A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.’ – Kevin Kelly

‘I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn’t replace the other kind of reporting.’ – Tina Brown

‘Pigs are not that dirty. And they’re smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.’ – Shelley Duvall

‘We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.’ – Eva Herzigova

‘If I’m really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.’ – Ray Romano

‘Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.’ – Rosanna Arquette

‘I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early ’70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.’ – David Zucker

‘I’m a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.’ – Gregg Easterbrook

‘I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they’re watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.’ – Bob Woodward

‘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

‘Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he’s so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there’s a lot to explore, get involved with and learn about.’ – Bernadette Peters

‘I’ve got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.’ – Dennis Rodman

‘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

‘Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.’ – Ron Silver

‘I do believe all actors are smart.’ – Ron Silver

‘I think it’s good to meet smart people and talk.’ – Ron Silver

‘I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.’ – Maurice Gibb

‘I’m terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it’s taken me this long to realise you don’t have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.’ – Sheena Easton

‘You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!’ – Peter Falk

‘I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that’s how VI came to life.’ – Sara Paretsky

‘Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.’ – Helmut Jahn

‘If you want to achieve things in life, you’ve just got to do them, and if you’re talented and smart, you’ll succeed.’ – Juliana Hatfield

‘And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.’ – Jonathan Franzen

‘I think the Clintons are brilliant. I’ve never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They’re too smart for Washington.’ – Chevy Chase

‘It’s very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.’ – Betty Dodson

‘You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.’ – Tony Hillerman

‘Ice T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.’ – Judd Nelson

‘Remember to be as smart as you are.’ – Judd Nelson

‘However, we couldn’t focus on the films much during the series because we’re dumb. Individually we’re smart guys, but together we’re one big dumb guy, and couldn’t concentrate on two things at once.’ – Bruce McCulloch

‘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

‘I was very young when we got married and I don’t know why it worked out like it did or how I was smart enough to know that this was the right guy, but somehow I got lucky.’ – Kyra Sedgwick

‘Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.’ – Jim Costa

‘I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.’ – Halle Berry

‘This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem – and in particular to perform integration – you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.’ – Marvin Minsky

‘I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.’ – Tia Carrere

‘I’ve been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.’ – Brendan Fraser

‘You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won’t necessarily help you in making art.’ – Maya Lin

‘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

‘Even with the best of intentions, even when they’re very smart and knowledgeable – as opposed to George W., who is neither – it doesn’t seem to matter.’ – Robert Scheer

‘I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.’ – Eva Gabor

‘Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.’ – Nick Cassavetes

‘Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?’ – J. M. Coetzee

‘You’ll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.’ – Anna Held

‘I think it’s because it’s so different and it takes risks. Plus, it’s really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There’s no laugh track.’ – Sarah Chalke

‘The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool – the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man.’ – Gregory Corso

‘Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.’ – Adrian Edmondson

‘A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it’s a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what’s good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.’ – Bill Bowerman

‘You know I don’t care if the world thinks I’m smart or not.’ – Joan Jett

‘I don’t care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what’s not right is from experience.’ – Cameron Diaz

‘I was never into smart college boy music.’ – Gene Ween

‘Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don’t stand out too much, but they’re still total freaks. I like that – they’re smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us.’ – Gene Ween

‘I care about this state… and I feel a responsibility to get things done. If we stay healthy and play smart we can be a playoff team. I think we’re on the right track.’ – Steve Mariucci

‘I mean people up here aren’t stupid, I’m lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.’ – Doug Ose

‘Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.’ – Lisa Kudrow

‘I talked about becoming stupid, but I’ve always been stupid. Fortunately I’ve been just smart enough to realize that I’m stupid.’ – Larry Wall

‘I’m not that tough; I’m not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn’t see it in a cave.’ – Richard Gere

‘Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they’re men.’ – Meryl Streep

‘Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.’ – Marsha Blackburn

‘What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.’ – Tom Brokaw

‘I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don’t see enough of that.’ – Portia de Rossi

‘I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.’ – Portia de Rossi

‘Our Fly Smart philosophy is about investing only on those points of differentiation that pay for themselves, that earn a revenue premium commensurate with what it costs us to provide that product or service.’ – Gerard Arpey

‘A smart model is a good model.’ – Tyra Banks

‘To a smart girl men are no problem – they’re the answer.’ – Zsa Zsa Gabor

‘There’s no such thing as ‘hard sell’ and ‘soft sell.’ There’s only ‘smart sell’ and ‘stupid sell.” – Leo Burnett

‘Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren’t much smarter.’ – Louise Brooks

‘Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.’ – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

‘I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn’t fit in. Like I wasn’t as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.’ – Halle Berry

‘If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she’ll answer any questions you have about it.’ – Courtney Love

‘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

‘As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you’d thought of.’ – Iain Banks

‘You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.’ – Lawrence Kasdan

‘Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.’ – Bret Easton Ellis

‘When you’re on a series, it’s tough to go on and do something else afterward. If you’re smart, save your money and you can wait out the bad times, until something else comes along.’ – Michael Dorn

‘When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.’ – Martin H. Fischer

‘I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are hard to get. I will drive all the way to Pittsburgh or Detroit to put it in their hands.’ – Brian Michael Bendis

‘In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs.’ – Michael Steele

‘William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We’re very good friends. I adore him, but we’re very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.’ – Patrick Stewart

‘I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.’ – Christopher Meloni

‘Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they’re the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.’ – Trey Parker

‘American stuntmen are smart – they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don’t know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.’ – Jackie Chan

‘I’m smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.’ – Megan Fox

‘Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.’ – Brian Celio

‘In general President Obama’s policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don’t think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn’t have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have.’ – Jonathan Krohn

‘But here’s the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can’t. I can’t even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don’t get it.’ – Bob Schieffer

‘They think that, if we were just smart enough, we’d be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell ’em, and I do tell ’em, Oh, we’re plenty smart, oh yeah – we know what’s goin’ on. And we don’t like what’s goin’ on. And we’re not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.’ – Sarah Palin

‘Some of these kids just don’t plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.’ – Dave Eggers

‘I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies – smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.’ – Mitch Daniels

‘When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, ‘You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.’ It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.’ – Kathryn Stockett

‘The American people are smart. They’ve gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.’ – John Avlon

‘I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.’ – Ice Cube

‘If I could have come in for $10m, I would have done that. I’ve been pretty smart with my money. I’m playing because I want to play this game here – I want the opportunity.’ – Karl Malone

‘No one knows that I’m smart.’ – Nicole Polizzi

‘I think one problem we’ve had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.’ – Walter Isaacson

‘I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you’re their friend, they don’t want to be threatened by you, you’ve got to be warm, you’ve got to be not too smart, not too pretty, not too anything.’ – Kelly Brook

‘I don’t analyze what I’m doing. I’ve read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I’ve noticed something that I wasn’t aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I’m just very, very smart.’ – Cindy Sherman

‘I thought ‘The Artist’ was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don’t want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything.’ – Michel Hazanavicius

‘People think that just because you’re a center, you’re not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.’ – Patrick Ewing

‘When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do.’ – Patrick Ewing

‘You still should enjoy the beach and going outside. Having a good time at the beach can still include being smart about protecting your skin because getting burned is no fun at all.’ – Brande Roderick

‘It’s so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things.’ – Emily Procter

‘Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you’ll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a ‘moral value’ – ‘affordable health care is a moral value’ etc., – then you’ll appeal to red-state voters.’ – Eric Liu

‘I think I’m pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don’t have a new car, I drive my old car that I’ve had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.’ – Chris O’Donnell

‘Find your self-respect now. Don’t dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It’s so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.’ – Danica McKellar

‘You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you’ll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.’ – Danica McKellar

‘Let’s make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that’s one of my main messages.’ – Danica McKellar

‘I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.’ – Danica McKellar

‘A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.’ – Danica McKellar

‘My message is: You don’t have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.’ – Danica McKellar

‘I’ve always liked Kate Winslet. She’s pretty, smart, and talented.’ – Jon Heder

‘TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.’ – Connie Nielsen

‘Well, we’re about 24 million subscribers today, and that’s up from about 15 million a year ago, so it’s a very high rate of growth, and that’s what’s exciting about the business – more and more people are getting smart TVs, they’re watching Netflix on their iPads.’ – Reed Hastings

‘When we think about online learning, it’s such ‘early days.’ Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like, ‘Who’s every going to need more than 640K of memory?” – Reed Hastings

‘If anyone tells you it’s impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you – and kiss your math.’ – Danica McKellar

‘If you’re beautiful, you’re led to believe that you can’t also be smart.’ – Danica McKellar

‘I don’t waste money on smart, expensive clothes.’ – Kirsty Gallacher

‘It’s all about training smart.’ – Tyson Gay

‘What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.’ – Peter Berg

‘My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.’ – Jared Leto

‘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

‘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

‘It’s almost ingrained in people that, just like you can’t be a smart model, you can’t be a good-looking cook.’ – Giada De Laurentiis

‘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

‘Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. He was so sweet, and he’s just so smart.’ – Alia Shawkat

‘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

‘Women always want to be what they’re not: If you’re the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you’re the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.’ – Jordana Brewster

‘I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world’s eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we’re protected, even if it’s not in our best interest.’ – Jason Ritter

‘We’re all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We’re just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.’ – Mehmet Oz

‘The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.’ – Mario Batali

‘Just because you eat doesn’t mean you eat smart. It’s hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant – it’s so cheap – but that wing pack isn’t feeding anyone, it’s just pushing hunger back an hour.’ – Mario Batali

‘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

‘I’ve never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.’ – Carl Hiaasen

‘Nobody ever really thought of me as sexy, right? They thought of me as smart and quirky.’ – Cynthia Nixon

‘That is not all I need. I need dogs. A house filled with dogs and a smart, funny, kind, loving girlfriend or wife.’ – Moby

‘In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it’s them solving the case.’ – Patricia Cornwell

‘Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.’ – Patricia Cornwell

‘I don’t think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students – they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.’ – Wendy Liebman

‘Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.’ – Roger Stone

‘For the past few years, I’ve been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that’s finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it’s only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.’ – Lizzy Caplan

‘People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It’s all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that’s a beautiful thing.’ – Nadia Giosia

‘Anytime I write something that’s trying to be too smart, it doesn’t work.’ – Emeli Sande

‘We have to honor our commitments to today’s beneficiaries, but we can’t solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.’ – Nan Hayworth

‘I don’t think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.’ – Tatyana Tolstaya

‘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

‘But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.’ – David E. Kelley

‘Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.’ – Lawrence Schiller

‘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 hate to be smart.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation’s economic problems. And I’m going to level with you: We don’t have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.’ – Paul Ryan

‘What’s completely insane to me is that people would consider music that’s simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn’t simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?’ – Dan Deacon

‘There is nothing like the way people feel after they’ve seen ‘The Intouchables.’ They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It’s intelligent-feeling good. You’re not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It’s so smart and terrific.’ – Harvey Weinstein

‘When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.’ – Alan Dershowitz

‘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 just like working with smart people.’ – Edward Norton

‘I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.’ – Jeff Bezos

‘I have not the smarts or patience for political office.’ – Henry Rollins

‘Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.’ – Ted Nugent

‘Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.’ – Mel Brooks

‘I turned down ‘Some Like It Hot.’ See how smart I am? I felt I couldn’t bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don’t need to compete with the wardrobe.’ – Jerry Lewis

‘No matter how popular you are as a stand-up – you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny – it’s delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it’s not about you, that it’s about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘When somebody tells you they’re not very smart, they’re saying exactly the opposite.’ – Tim Allen

‘I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.’ – Philip Roth

‘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.

‘I called my business manager in California and said, ‘Sell all of my stock’ – what little of it I had – and it’s the only smart financial move I ever made.’ – Lauren Bacall

‘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

‘It’s really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.’ – Marissa Mayer

‘Children tease each other because you’re short or you’re tall or you’re a redhead or because you’re ugly or because you’re smart or because you’re dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others.’ – Heather Wilson

‘I’m pretty smart with boys. I know how to handle them and I know what to do around them.’ – Ariel Winter

‘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 love that ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that’s something that I don’t get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn’t really happen that much on ‘The Office.’ I just like that ‘Moonlighting,’ Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.’ – Mindy Kaling

‘Where is it written that a smart woman can’t also be stacked?’ – Padma Lakshmi

‘People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It’s not that pretty girls aren’t smart, it’s that women aren’t strong.’ – Padma Lakshmi

‘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

‘I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let’s face it, at the end of the day, I’m not that smart of a guy.’ – Kid Rock

‘I don’t think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.’ – Hillary Clinton

”Smart power’ is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict – not just send our military in.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘Today, President Obama is making smart investments in clean energy – wind, solar, biofuels – as part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy that supports thousands of jobs, not in the Middle East, but in the Midwest.’ – Tom Vilsack

‘I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ.’ – Colin Quinn

‘I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn’t be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they’re working. I thrive when I’m hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.’ – Courtney Thorne-Smith

‘I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.’ – Mike Myers

‘I have to be a lot more calculating because I’m a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I’m generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it’s tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.’ – Emily Watson

‘When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.’ – Ben Stein

‘It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.’ – Ben Stein

‘Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well… yesterday’s news.’ – Harvey Fierstein

‘I’m smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don’t mind paying top-dollar, but I don’t want to get ripped off.’ – Kim Cattrall

‘I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn’t feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.’ – Mary J. Blige

‘I’m a smart girl. There are decisions that I make for reasons, and the most important thing is that my son is happy and he always will be. He’s surrounded by love.’ – Christina Aguilera

‘I dropped out of high school and I couldn’t go to college ’cause I wasn’t smart enough, so I’d resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.’ – Dave Grohl

‘Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don’t have labels for middle-class Southerners.’ – John Shelton Reed

‘I’m lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there’s something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they’re educated. They go in ready and they’re up for it, they’re up for the party. It’s a whole different atmosphere.’ – Hugh Jackman

‘You know what I like about San Francisco? The women are beautiful, fashionable and smart. San Francisco is one of the only cities I like to visit. I love New York and Chicago – I studied there, and L.A. has the same people as New York.’ – LeRoy Neiman

‘There’s a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don’t have that chance to show it.’ – Ice Cube

‘I try to understand people who aren’t as smart as me and not be hateful.’ – Gary Coleman

‘If you’re too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don’t do anything.’ – John Malkovich

‘Yeah, I’m very smart.’ – Sylvia Browne

‘Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn’t have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don’t pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.’ – Malcolm Turnbull

‘I want to make smart choices.’ – Samantha Barks

‘I am not that smart.’ – Bob Parsons

‘Guys don’t really don’t wanna hear if it’s really smart, and women feel uncomfortable if you reveal stuff they’re going to have to remember they did themselves.’ – Liz Phair

‘The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.’ – Brian Eno

‘Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.’ – Brian Eno

‘Most of the shows I want to do I’m not smart enough to figure out how to watch.’ – David Spade

‘In today’s world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we’re only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.’ – Elizabeth McGovern

‘I’ve never been able to learn from other people’s mistakes – I’m not that smart – so I usually learn by trial by fire.’ – Shia LaBeouf

‘Look for when the environment is changing – the big shift now is mobile Internet. It’s really happening big-time. The way you interact with services on a smart phone compared to the Web is quite different, so there’s a huge opportunity.’ – Niklas Zennstrom

‘I like to play smart, three-dimensional women. I also like to play roles where the women are a little crazy. I just have a feel for crazy people.’ – Lili Taylor

‘You know, I think British comedy is very smart comedy. You don’t get too much dumb comedy over here. Or at least I haven’t seen it. If I’m wrong about that, I apologize to all the dumb comedy makers over here.’ – Matt LeBlanc

‘The mantra from the Obama State Department is ‘smart power’ – the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.’ – Ed Royce

‘In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it’s single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.’ – Eliot Spitzer

‘Every few years, I think, ‘Maybe now I’m finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand ‘Ulysses.’ So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I’m like, ‘What the hell?” – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘I was raised on ‘Get Smart’ and ‘All in the Family’ and ‘M.A.S.H.,’ and certainly when ‘Cheers’ came along, that was a big one.’ – Eric McCormack

‘I’ve been pretty lucky – or slothful – in that I’ve never been a ‘career builder.’ I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that’s left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with ‘Caprica,’ the complex, dark and very smart script was the draw.’ – Eric Stoltz

‘The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don’t know. My Russian accent isn’t that great, and the muscles aren’t that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.’ – Christoph Waltz

‘I don’t need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It’s very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.’ – Kate Walsh

‘I didn’t grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny – those are the things I got feedback on.’ – Lauren Graham

‘I think you’ve got to take your time and make sure you’re making choices that are smart for you.’ – Matthew Fox

‘You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they’re smart people. But you don’t throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.’ – Dave Eggers

‘There’s something quite joyful about doing comedy which doesn’t really need much analysis. I’m not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.’ – Steve Coogan

‘There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it’s really cool to be smart.’ – Freeman A. Hrabowski III

‘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

‘Alan Moore’s writing is almost novelistic. It’s very intricate and wordy and smart.’ – Adrianne Palicki

‘I’ve always been a person that believes in eating often and eating smart, clean meals.’ – Brooke Burke

‘I mean, if you’re being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who’s really smart, it’s great. If you’re being told what to do by a nincompoop – and luckily that hasn’t happened very often – it can be very frustrating.’ – Kristin Scott Thomas

‘There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.’ – Paul Graham

‘I’ve seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them ‘mavericks with mentors.’ Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.’ – Brendon Burchard

‘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

‘I’m a big fan of ‘Glee.’ I think it’s really smart. And I think it’s well-timed. But you can’t not be surprised at the reception this show’s received. It’s really something else.’ – Cory Monteith

‘I’ve never been good at making smart career decisions or doing the right strategic thing, and yet somehow it’s all led me to exactly the kind of career that I would have dreamed of having – if only I’d been smart enough to dream something like that.’ – Michael Cerveris

‘For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don’t take for granted. It’s tough getting a manager, let alone one that actually cares about you and is smart. But from there, no one’s going to cast me just because I’m James Franco’s little brother.’ – Dave Franco

‘I just know that it’s smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.’ – Dave Franco

‘You don’t have to be dead to write a classic, and you don’t have to be literary to be smart.’ – Lisa Scottoline

‘This is a gift that God has given me. I’m not smart enough to write for everybody, but it’s the love in these books that comes from Him and goes out to my reading audience. I’m forever grateful for that. It’s a privilege.’ – Jan Karon

‘My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.’ – Ben Carson

‘In America right now, we use words like ‘smart’ to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it’s very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.’ – Jonathan Safran Foer

‘I guess I’ve always been drawn to roles that have smart characters commenting on what’s happening around them.’ – Alia Shawkat

‘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

‘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

‘When you’re in school until you’re 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you’re smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.’ – Anson Mount

‘Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won’t date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.’ – Patti Stanger

‘I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they’re also smart, savvy, and fun.’ – Amanda Hocking

‘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

‘As a pop star, you don’t have to be that smart for people to think you’re intelligent.’ – Adam Levine

‘I think the Smart Car is awesome. The only problem is I’ve been on the freeway and felt like I was going to be blown away like a Tim Hortons coffee cup, so I may have to upgrade to a Mini Cooper – something a little stronger.’ – Elliot Page

‘The most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today’s world of social media and smart phones, this is easy to do.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is part-gate-kept, part-not, with many different publishers and retailers and platforms? I’m not smart enough to figure it out, but if I had to guess I’d guess the latter.’ – Lev Grossman

‘I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.’ – April Bowlby

‘You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are – the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.’ – Susan Orlean

‘I look for fun and smarts – a witty, strong sexy woman.’ – Josh Dallas

‘Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he’s so smart; so articulate, such an amazing speaker; such a passionate man. He’s humble.’ – Marlon Wayans

‘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

‘I wasn’t smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.’ – Michael Ealy

‘People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it’s funny. If it’s too dirty or wrong, they won’t laugh. But if it’s a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.’ – Michael Patrick King

‘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

”TV Guide’ is smart to aim toward women. More women will go there to find out what’s on – just like when guys won’t ask for directions, a woman will break out the map.’ – Kate Flannery

‘I love my fans because they’re smart, dude.’ – Kris Allen

‘You need to be smart about what you put in your body.’ – Stacy Keibler

‘The good news about showcasing chefs and the TV shows is they’ve attracted a lot more smart kids to the profession than 30 years ago. On the downside, though, these young chefs all say they want their own restaurant and their own TV show.’ – Wolfgang Puck

‘That’s what I think is smart about ‘Durham County.’ It’s not derivative of anything American. It’s more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.’ – Michelle Forbes

‘The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people – yesterday’s disabled and elderly.’ – Daniel H. Wilson

‘Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family’s bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!’ – Linwood Barclay

‘At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.’ – Ray William Johnson

‘I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak.’ – Richard Beymer

‘I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.’ – James Brolin

‘There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.’ – Bill Keller

‘Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It’s good for the bottom line.’ – Michelle Bachelet

‘My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He’s wearing glasses, he’s in a wheelchair, he’s a computer genius. He’s very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I’d be taken seriously.’ – Michael Weatherly

‘I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it’s important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it’s important.’ – Megalyn Echikunwoke

‘There’s something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times – one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.’ – Julie Burchill

‘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

‘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

‘Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.’ – Jose Manuel Barroso

‘A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals – someone that he wouldn’t be afraid to bring home to his parents.’ – Victoria Justice

‘If you’re smart and you care about life, you’ll take driving seriously.’ – Victoria Justice

‘We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.’ – will.i.am

‘I wasn’t a smart kid and I still don’t think I’m too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.’ – Criss Angel

‘My biggest fear in writing ‘Gossip Girl’ was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.’ – Cecily von Ziegesar

‘Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they’re smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you – perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that spell didn’t last.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘It’s a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘There’s a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.’ – Charlie Rose

‘The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people – including my ex-wives.’ – Ronald Perelman

‘Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans’ anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.’ – Frank Rich

‘Greg Berlanti, David Nutter, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim are the people I wanted to work with. They’re smart, they’re funny, they’re cool, they’re edgy.’ – Katie Cassidy

‘When you live in America, it’s kind of insular – the news coverage that you get – unless you’re really smart about it and find more international news coverage. I’ve learned that from my husband. In the French culture, they talk politics.’ – Kim Raver

‘If I go to an awards ceremony, I wear a suit, of course I do. I am proud to be there. If there are young kids looking at pictures of me, I want them to feel that they should long for the opportunity to go somewhere really smart and wear a beautiful suit, rather than to reject that.’ – Tinie Tempah

‘With news, especially investigative pieces, you’ve got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the big guys. You can’t go head-to-head with the networks.’ – Bill Kurtis

‘What people don’t know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.’ – Hugh Masekela

‘The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past – Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela – they’re all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn’t it?’ – Dennis C. Blair

‘I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain – that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.’ – Mike White

‘I’ve been described as a smart actor because I’ve attended college. Or I’ve been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, ‘So, are actors supposed to be dumb?” – Omari Hardwick

‘The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It’s to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won’t deliver it.’ – Tony Abbott

‘My talent isn’t so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.’ – Maria Semple

‘The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.’ – Scott Rudin

‘Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.’ – Danai Gurira

‘A lot of people who don’t write for kids think it’s easy, because they think kids aren’t as smart as they are, or that you have to dumb down what you would normally write for kids. But I think you have to work harder when you write for kids, to make sure every word is right, that it’s there for the right reason.’ – Brian Selznick

‘Robert Redford was an absolute blast to work with – a very smart, very charismatic man.’ – Christopher McDonald

‘I’m a real dumb-dumb in real life. I’m just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my jacket in a cab. And I’ll forget things every time I leave the house.’ – Masi Oka

‘Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.’ – Peter York

‘It might be hard to remember this far back, but once upon a time, some of us hoped that public TV would develop into a smart, sophisticated, civilized alternative to commercial TV – not a cheap imitation of it.’ – Tom Shales

‘Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The ‘smart’ people don’t.’ – Burt Rutan

‘Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos’s Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!’ – Burt Rutan

‘Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart – smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.’ – James Surowiecki

‘Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.’ – James Surowiecki

‘For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.’ – James Surowiecki

‘Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.’ – Scott Westerfeld

‘I love meeting fans. They’re always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.’ – Tamora Pierce

‘What I’m saying is individuals have better ideas if they’re connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It’s not that the network is smart.’ – Steven Johnson

‘As a teacher, I’ve never seen anything like ‘Harry Potter.’ That’s why I smart when people talk about the ‘next’ ‘Harry Potter.’ There is no ‘next’ ‘Harry Potter.” – Rick Riordan

‘You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.’ – Harvey Mackay

‘By the way, intelligence to me isn’t just being book-smart or having a college degree; it’s trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.’ – Tabatha Coffey

‘How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?’ – Gail Collins

‘If you look at the economics of Nokia, roughly half of the company, half of the business, half of how we think about the business is focused on those emerging markets and on those lower-priced devices. But, of course, people who are aspirational and buying those lower-priced devices today are looking at smart phones tomorrow, and so forth.’ – Stephen Elop

‘I’m not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.’ – Mary Karr

‘The truth is when I went to graduate school I would’ve said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.’ – Mary Karr

‘Being and working in America, it’s very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it’s slow-moving and it’s not always good.’ – Mireille Guiliano

‘When I’m out and about, I’ll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.’ – Steven Hall

‘Smart beauty is about looking your best and feeling your best and never overpaying for it.’ – Stacy London

‘My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because… the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors – that’s where they come from.’ – Michael Moritz

‘I thought Google was the coolest place. People there were so smart and they were all doing these really interesting things. I just felt really lucky to be a part of it even in a small way.’ – Ben Silbermann

‘I think it’s difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They’re embarrassed to have people see them doing it.’ – Walter Dean Myers

‘I’m not just offensive, I’m very smart about the way that I do it, and that takes a lot of time. People say that young comics shouldn’t be trying these things. That’s ridiculous. You should try everything and see what sticks.’ – Anthony Jeselnik

‘I’m not saying people shouldn’t apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make your own luck. But I know people firsthand who worked incredibly hard, who were really smart, who never got into trouble, and still didn’t get a break.’ – David Lindsay-Abaire

‘At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.’ – Rebel Wilson

‘When I’m not working, I like to be comfortable. I do like to dress smart, but comfort is important.’ – Richard Madden

‘I’m actually pretty smart when you get to know me.’ – Fred Tomaselli

‘The debate that I’m interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that will genuinely address problems of poverty and educational underachievement.’ – Niall Ferguson

‘I’ll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that’s going to make me smart and then go to sleep.’ – Jaden Smith

‘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

‘I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.’ – Woody Hayes

‘Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are ‘holes’ and ‘bank’ and ‘caps.’ But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.’ – Sholom Aleichem

‘For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.’ – Matt Mullenweg

‘Pretty isn’t the only thing that matters – being smart and kind matters more, of course – but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.’ – Meg Cabot

‘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

‘I know my fan base is a smart group of people.’ – Aziz Ansari

‘The world of TV debates is antiquated. What looked smart and modern in 1960, with Kennedy versus Nixon, looks quaint and over-rehearsed between Obama and Romney. We need a new format; even if we have the same moderators and candidates, there needs to be a more nuanced way for audiences to connect with and shape presidential debates.’ – Ruzwana Bashir

‘You can be this super-successful woman who’s smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn’t always think that was possible.’ – Ruzwana Bashir

‘Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.’ – Roseanne Barr

‘I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.’ – Roger Ebert

‘Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that’s a function of management.’ – David Stern

‘I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.’ – Allison Scagliotti

‘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

‘His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan was surrounded by some very smart people who gave him very sound advice. They were not wondering where certain countries are on the map.’ – Eugene Jarecki

‘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’ll tell you, Liz Cheney is going to be a very good candidate. I worked with her during the Bush campaigns. She’s smart, she’s focused, she’s disciplined – and she’s got a great back story. She’s got a large family. She’s a great mom. And she’s a hard worker. I think she’s going to be a very effective campaigner.’ – Mark McKinnon

‘I’d just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.’ – Moby

‘In the case of ‘News Radio,’ I loved that show. I loved the actors and the producers, but I was longing very much for something more to sink my teeth into me. I think it was an incredibly smart show, but I found myself on the peripheral of a lot of it.’ – Khandi Alexander

‘I’m not a writer. I’m not smart. I couldn’t possibly even write my own story.’ – Zoey Deutch

‘I know it sounds weird, but my definition of ‘sexy’ has changed as I’ve gotten older. And being smart and informed makes me feel sexier than any outfit.’ – Sarah Shahi

‘Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin

‘Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin

‘I just like boys who are good-looking, really! I like people who are tall with a good sense of style. My faves are the indie look, the smart look or the surfer look.’ – Pixie Lott

‘When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don’t particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.’ – Kate Winslet

‘When I started the diamond business, no black person, period, was in it to do what we’re trying to do to change the industry. So I like to do things that I see clearly that are in my, you know, scope. And then, I had to figure how I get talented or smart business people around me to execute. That’s what I have to do.’ – Russell Simmons

‘I don’t want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it’s not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God.’ – Sean M. Carroll

‘My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we’re going to build a smart machine, let’s have it read good books.’ – Brewster Kahle

‘In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.’ – Maira Kalman

‘Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You’re either a feminist or you’re not. You’re a working woman or you’re not. I’m raising two girls, and I say to them, ‘I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful… You can be all of these things.” – Maria Shriver

‘I’m not suggesting that microbial cellulose is going to be a replacement for cotton, leather or other textile materials. But I do think it could be quite a smart and sustainable addition to our increasingly precious natural resources.’ – Suzanne Lee

‘One reason Zipcar succeeded was its branding: cool, hip, smart, urban, fun, innovative. Who wouldn’t want to be associated with that?’ – Robin Chase

‘For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building ‘grassroots infrastructure,’ using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.’ – Ethan Zuckerman

‘I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn’t have the advantage. If you’re smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets.’ – Evan Williams

‘When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart environments where, if you meet a certain probabilistic profile, you won’t even be allowed to board a bus, let alone commit a crime, we’re perpetuating existing laws so they face no challenges or revision.’ – Evgeny Morozov

‘Look at something like cooking. Now, you would hear a lot about smart kitchens and augmented kitchens. And what do those smart kitchens actually do? They police what’s happening inside the kitchen. They have cameras that distinguish ingredients one from each other and that tell you that shouldn’t mix this ingredient with another ingredient.’ – Evgeny Morozov

‘In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.’ – Evgeny Morozov

‘Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a ‘smart’ trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process.’ – Evgeny Morozov

‘As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.’ – Evgeny Morozov

‘Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.’ – Evgeny Morozov

‘The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.’ – Artie Lange

‘It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.’ – Naomi Wolf

‘Being in The Fall isn’t like being in another group. It isn’t a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren’t as smart as me.’ – Mark E. Smith

‘My mom always said, ‘Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you’re not that smart. And No. 2, then you’ll have smart babies.” – Katee Sackhoff

‘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

‘I like to take risks as long as they’re healthy, you know. They’re good, smart risks.’ – Alyson Stoner

‘Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.’ – Jonathan Haidt

‘When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she’d get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was ‘C’mon, she’s too smart for that.” – J. Michael Straczynski

‘Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘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 David Letterman is a genius. Night after night he is funny and smart. He seems to really enjoy his jokes. They seem connected to who he really is. I like watching him, and there is no one better at turning an awkward moment into something very funny.’ – Casey Affleck

‘The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.’ – April Gornik

‘I don’t often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She’s a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she’s both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen.’ – Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

‘When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me.’ – George Smoot

‘If the KKK was smart enough, they would’ve created gangsta rap because it’s such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.’ – Jackson Katz

‘I don’t think anyone would look at Colombia today and say that it is failing. This positive outcome is an example of the effective application of smart power – it is succeeding.’ – James G. Stavridis

‘I feel like I’ve been very smart in the way that I carry myself and treat myself. I feel like my mom was a big part of that just because she’s always let us make our own decisions, and we’ve known very much about the mistakes and the dangers already of whatever this Hollywood life may be.’ – Evan Ross

‘If a woman is bed-heady and it doesn’t look put on, it’s pretty sexy. But when a woman is wearing a really smart dress with great heels and her hair is pulled back, that’s terribly sexy too – like an Audrey Hepburn kind of thing.’ – Eric Mabius

‘Now that we’ve transitioned to more Smart TVs, where people are broadcasting their cable box, I hope that Geek & Sundry is something that people will click on in the future, knowing that they’re going to get content that they love.’ – Felicia Day

‘I think generally the heads of terrorist groups are very, very smart people. They’re also great manipulators. I would presume that cult leaders are identical. These sort of individuals are very strong, they have very strong charisma.’ – Loretta Napoleoni

‘I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.’ – Leonard Susskind

‘With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today’s culture, I think it’s super important to promote staying smart online.’ – G. Hannelius

‘School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.’ – Djimon Hounsou

‘I couldn’t be as charming as my mother or as smart as my father. So I decided to be bad.’ – Markie Post

‘One of the most important things I’m glad we did and am proud of is that we don’t have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we’ll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful.’ – Lisa Ling

‘My first job in TV was hosting this young teen magazine show, and all these high school teenagers showed up from all over Sacramento, California, and they chose four of us to host the show, two boys and two girls. And of the two girls, I was kind of the perky smart one and the other girl was the pretty one.’ – Lisa Ling

‘My 94-year-old grandmother has always been so inspiring to me. She is kind, smart, brave, and independent. After graduating number one in her medical school class at a time when it was extremely rare for women to attend medical school, she worked with the World Health Organization in North Africa to eradicate tuberculosis.’ – Kelsey Chow

‘What a piece of garbage this smart car is. There’s a commercial – the smart car has zero percent interest for six years. Well, good, I got zero percent in six years in buying this smart car. I’ll tell you that much. I mean, it’s ridiculous. My buddy has a smart car, totaled it. He hit a deer tick.’ – Larry the Cable Guy

‘I think you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and get plenty done.’ – Bill de Blasio

‘What’s nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.’ – Ato Essandoh

‘I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they’re smart.’ – Chris Hardwick

‘I think I just pick really smart and motivated people to work with – people who are probably going to do great things anyway – and I just teach them what I know, maybe teach them how to think a little clearer than they did before, and then off they go.’ – Tucker Max

‘I was proud of ‘House, MD,’ and I think it was good for what it was and remarkably smart for a television show. I loved Hugh Laurie and was proud to be by his side that long and to be trusted by him.’ – Robert Sean Leonard

‘Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn’t get you very far, because there weren’t too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn’t be both.’ – Morgan Fairchild

‘The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!’ – Ashton Kutcher

‘I really want women to throw their shoulders back and stand up straight and use their big girl voices and not feel like they’re compromising their femininity to be strong and smart.’ – Katie Aselton

‘Kerry Washington is a mentor to me. She is so strong and smart. She’s also so giving and supportive.’ – Katie Lowes

‘I like playing smart women very, very much because I definitely learn from them.’ – Autumn Reeser

‘I am a big theater fan. It’s mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.’ – Brian K. Vaughan

‘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

‘I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasn’t being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.’ – Nolan Gould

‘I love a smart girl and a girl who loves her family!’ – Romeo Miller

‘I love a smart, educated woman.’ – Romeo Miller

‘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

‘There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.’ – Andrew Young

‘The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that’s self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn’t do it for me either. You just try to be funny.’ – Greg Giraldo

‘As America’s head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.’ – Harold Ford, Jr.

‘If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn’t a human?’ – Neill Blomkamp

‘At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.’ – Sal Albanese

‘My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn’t nearly as good as my father. I wasn’t as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else.’ – George Clooney

‘It doesn’t matter how smart you are; to audition for ‘Jeopardy,’ you just have to luck out and know what they’re asking you that day.’ – Drew Carey

‘Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn’t we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place.’ – Kid Rock

‘Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.’ – John Sculley

‘I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.’ – Dylan Moran

‘I think the business community is smart enough to realise that just having a trade union is not enough. They are smart enough to know they need to be part of a union that has political and financial power.’ – Marjorie Scardino

‘Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.’ – Goldie Hawn

‘Barack Obama is clearly a smart guy, talented.’ – Stephen Baldwin

‘I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C’s and D’s. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody’s talking about these 100-hour movies called ‘Breaking Bad’. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is ‘Breaking Bad.” – Douglas Coupland

‘I don’t know if it’s a very smart idea to admire the living.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.’ – Penn Jillette

‘The day I left baseball, I became smart. When I was in baseball, I played for the love of the game. I’d sign any contract they gave me. But then I stopped playing and began doing interviews with the players at the ball park. I began to see the light.’ – Chuck Connors

‘It’s as important to sell yourselves as much as the service. The business model’s going to change 50 times, and the market’s going to change, but you need to convince that investor that you are smart enough and excited enough about the opportunity that you’ll figure it out.’ – Dylan Smith

‘I think our movie, ‘Now You See Me,’ is an emotional movie rooted in smart and wits and fully amazing actors working perfectly together. It’s like a supergroup of musicians.’ – Louis Leterrier

‘My favorite moment is when someone says, ‘I like ‘Unleashed.’ ‘Now You See Me’ is so much fun.’ That’s what I want to do: smart, fun and big movies. I cannot lie, I love working with those big paint brushes. I have a blast doing these movies.’ – Louis Leterrier

‘My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they’re a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I’ve also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers – as a writer, they’re a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one’s life.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is – that’s really strategic. That’s a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear.’ – Jessica Valenti

‘We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren’t with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we’re sending out into the cybersphere.’ – Regina Brett

‘How do you know someone is a grandparent? They’ve got milk stains on every shirt from burping babies. Their pants are worn out at the knees from crawling around giving pony rides. They have 2,842 pictures of the grandkids on their smart phone and not one photo of their spouse.’ – Regina Brett

‘I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am.’ – Rich Mullins

‘I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I’m still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd – all of the affect and none of the smarts. I’m a useless nerd! That’s pretty bad.’ – Claire Danes

‘People don’t like when you point out to them and remind them that they’re not very smart.’ – Brian McKnight

‘I know people who are twice as creative as I am, twice as smart, but they didn’t do anything because they feared going into a room and opening their mouths. My parents told me to truly accomplish things in my life, there would be times I would have to stand alone. It may be scary, but that’s what it requires.’ – Queen Latifah

‘Eating smart is all about having an awareness of your body. The most obvious way to do that is by seeing it. So when you’re trying to lose weight, spend more time wearing less. I don’t think I could eat a plate of nachos naked – could you?’ – Marisa Miller

‘My feeling on therapy is it’s a luxury, and if you’re fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that’s fortunate and you should go for it.’ – Matthew Perry

‘I want to be able to speak with errors in my wording, errors in my grammar. When you type things into Google search, it corrects your words. With speech, I want it to be general enough, smart enough, to know ‘No, he couldn’t have meant these words that I think he said. He must have really meant something similar.” – Steve Wozniak

‘I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they’re doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn’t help them.’ – Sean Penn

‘Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.’ – Caitlin Moran

‘Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and diagnostic instruments that are built tough, cheap, and reusable for the developing world.’ – Muhammad Yunus

”The Simpsons’ basically – and ‘Futurama’ – are really smart shows. They’re kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you’re paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.’ – Matt Groening

‘Sci-fi fans are awesome. They’re very smart, they like to be involved, they like to ask questions. I’ve been asked questions I don’t even know the answer to. I’ve never had any aggressive interactions. I’ve had lovely interactions.’ – Rachel Nichols

‘My type is really young, short, athletic, and smart. I know, you want to be with someone who’s going to be your friend – yeah, yeah, yeah. I want the Adonis line, the two down the hips to the waist. And a guy has to be able to accept criticism about his clothing. I can be very particular about what I like and don’t like.’ – Rachel Nichols

‘I feel really proud of my work on ‘Sullivan & Son.’ It’s a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that’s who I am at my core, but that’s never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.’ – Valerie Azlynn

‘I am not gonna say that a guy’s looks make him have to try harder in any way. I don’t believe that at all. I think if he is funny, smart and cool, he’s all set. Looks are not very important to me.’ – Valerie Azlynn

‘I love the Warner Brothers lot. There is so much history there. They’ve done such a smart thing. They have signs outside of each stage which tell you what movies and TV shows were shot inside. So cool… you can almost feel the ghosts of actors past.’ – Valerie Azlynn

‘The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious, hardworking person without a huge amount of resources has a pretty good shot, in the end, of beating out a less smart, less ambitious, less hardworking rich person.’ – Adam Davidson

‘As we grow up in more technology-enriched environments filled with laptops and smart phones, technology is not just becoming a part of our daily lives – it’s becoming a part of each and every one of us.’ – Adora Svitak

‘There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and should have been saying ‘I hope this guy fails’ right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘I sometimes wish I weren’t as logical as I am and I wish I weren’t as smart as I am, because I’d be happy.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.’ – Dean Kamen

‘I’ve learned that while I’d be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say.’ – Alicia Keys

‘There’s a popular concept of ‘intelligence’ as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that ‘it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.’ But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.’ – Eliezer Yudkowsky

‘If I could create a world where people lived forever, or at the very least a few billion years, I would do so. I don’t think humanity will always be stuck in the awkward stage we now occupy, when we are smart enough to create enormous problems for ourselves, but not quite smart enough to solve them.’ – Eliezer Yudkowsky

‘To be efficient with the football in practice and on the game field obviously is the most important thing, but be efficient with the football, make smart decisions, be great on third downs, be great in the red zone, when the game’s on the line in the fourth quarter – that’s what I love.’ – Russell Wilson

‘My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.’ – Levon Helm

‘I don’t think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our ancestors, there was a gradual expansion of the brain; there was an expansion of the complexity of tools.’ – Steven Pinker

‘Kids are smart: don’t underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don’t even try to fool them. I have never been more nervous about my research than when writing for young adults because they pick up every single error.’ – Isabel Allende

‘I’m not that smart, but I’m smart enough to know that if Usher wants to help you, you let him.’ – Blake Shelton

‘I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.’ – Julia Roberts

‘You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.’ – Julia Roberts

‘I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word ‘marriage.’ Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.’ – Ani DiFranco

‘My father was a dreamer – my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady’s handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.” – Alan King

‘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

‘If you’re smart, you’ll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there’ll always be somebody who’s never read a book who’ll know twice what you know.’ – David Duchovny

‘You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.’ – Ashley Tisdale

‘It’s really hard to scare people on network television. You’ve got to be smart about it. You’ve got to parcel out the scares.’ – Chris Carter

‘I admired shows like ‘Six Feet Under.’ That was an amazing show. Never boring, always inventive, smart. Loved the characters. Completely original. Those are shows that I admire.’ – Chris Carter

‘I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.’ – Iggy Azalea

‘The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there – not to mention the ‘Baby Einstein’ DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys – won’t do a thing to make your baby smarter. That’s largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways.’ – Alison Gopnik

‘We know what makes babies smart and happy and thrive. It’s having human beings who are dedicated to caring for them – human beings who are well supported, not stressed out and not poor.’ – Alison Gopnik

‘Being a black woman, there’s so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.’ – Lauren London

‘I don’t think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers.’ – Sharon Stone

‘Although I believe affection and romance should be shown all year around, it’s always smart to have a good plan up your sleeve for Valentine’s Day.’ – Marcus Samuelsson

‘While eating gluten-free may help you lose weight initially because it eliminates baked goods, one has to be smart when choosing replacement options because the gluten-free versions often have the same number of calories.’ – Marcus Samuelsson

‘I dream big, baby. I want to do thrillers, I want to do smart David Lynch-type mysteries.’ – Gina Rodriguez

‘I feel like my agents are really amazing and smart.’ – Stephanie Beatriz

‘Mindy Kaling is so smart and hilarious.’ – Melissa Fumero

‘Sometimes I feel like if two parents were given $100, and a child-free person was given $100, everyone would assume that the parents would invest their money wisely because they’re smart. And people like me would just go buy candy.’ – Jen Kirkman

‘I grew up in the suburbs of a small town on the south coast where the only opportunity I ever got to wear anything smart was a funeral, so I had never owned a piece of clothing worth more than ¬£40.’ – Tom Odell

‘Jessica Alba to me is on the top of the food chain. She’s gorgeous, she’s smart, and she really takes care of herself. I think that she looks great. I think that as Jennifer Aniston gets older, she looks better and better, and I really like that.’ – Bob Harper

‘I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know the stories; it’s just a matter of being able to connect with their emotional sides – that’s the key to writing good fiction.’ – Tess Gerritsen

‘The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.’ – Biz Stone

‘I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it’s kind of obvious when you’re learning things faster than other kids.’ – Lisa Randall

‘Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it’s fun hearing their different perspectives and stuff that they will share.’ – Lisa Randall

‘I stuck around in Hollywood for too long. I was there a long time, and when I left, I was smart enough to realise that what I was leaving was not just the movie business. I wanted to get rid of the whole atmosphere.’ – Andre Previn

‘I’ve seen people be effective, even among local teams, by offering something that improves wellbeing in a small way – people who get passionate about smart investment strategies and managing finances for retirement, for example.’ – Tom Rath

‘I’ve met some smart people doing security work in the government, and they’re starting to reach out to a broader audience, which I think is a good thing.’ – Jeff Moss

‘As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very intelligent. So I wasn’t inclined to take a biology course. But my father insisted, and maybe what he had in mind was that, if there were no jobs in physics, I would end up being a doctor.’ – James Rothman

‘I’m street smart. You can’t con me. But that’s just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don’t have the street smarts. You can take him.’ – J. B. Smoove

‘Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn’t very special – black turtleneck and jeans – but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.’ – Carine Roitfeld

‘Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he’s so smart. But he’s a very nice person… when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.’ – Carine Roitfeld

‘To be a good model, you have to be very smart.’ – Carine Roitfeld

‘Watching ‘CSI: Miami’ is like watching ‘Teen Jeopardy!’ or doing the crossword puzzle in ‘People’ magazine. It makes you feel smart even when you’re not.’ – Willie Geist

‘Tailored jackets with jeans is a great look for all ages. Dress up with a heel and pretty shirt, or just wear a smart T-shirt under the jacket.’ – Twiggy

‘What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products – firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.’ – Kevin Mitnick

‘The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher’s password and all the other students’ passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was.’ – Kevin Mitnick

‘I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business.’ – Wentworth Miller

‘Immigration is America’s No. 1 economic asset. The rest of the world can’t do that. We can have every smart person we want, every high-skilled person we want.’ – Grover Norquist

‘You really have to be careful with the clues you lay into the film – if they’re too heavy-handed, or you’ve pandered to a slightly stupider audience, then you’ve spoiled it for the people who are even slightly smart.’ – Ben Wheatley

‘When people ask me what it is about Brazil and my work, it’s not something that I can say literally. It’s unidentifiable. It’s like when you do research and things inspire you. If you’re smart enough, then obviously you don’t take it literally. The inspiration will come out later somehow.’ – Francisco Costa

‘I’m smart enough to know to work with smart people.’ – Idina Menzel

‘It’s not always the case that doing what’s right is also doing what’s smart, but when it is, the question of ‘what to do’ should be pretty simple.’ – Gerald Chertavian

‘Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.’ – Gerald Chertavian

‘I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris’s books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it’s always good to be back.’ – Henry Rollins

‘Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say ‘no’ to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.’ – Henry Rollins

‘I used to be an over-packer! It took me a while to be smart about what I brought with me. I used to tour with a huge bag full of clothes and another one full of shoes because I wanted to have choices. And I ended up wearing the same pair of shoes all the time!’ – Juliana Hatfield

‘By teaching twenty-something year olds responsible debt management practices, we can help them create a balanced lifestyle and find peace of mind through increased financial awareness, smart saving and long-term investing.’ – Alexa Von Tobel

‘While I strongly encourage my readers to take advantage of the Internet and social networking platforms to gain a greater understanding of their personal finances, it is extremely important to be safe, smart, and responsible when it comes to sharing, discussing, and managing your finances online.’ – Alexa Von Tobel

‘I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels – smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.’ – Robert Lopez

‘We all want to get along well with other people, and one way to do this is to help people feel good about themselves. If you make a person feel smart and insightful, that person will enjoy your company.’ – Gretchen Rubin

‘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

‘People generally complain that they’re overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like a dog in order to live in a nice house, put your kids in nice schools, drive a smart car and go on exotic foreign holidays. It’s up to you.’ – Mark Barrowcliffe

‘My interest in society – at times so pronounced that the word ‘snob’ comes a little to mind – derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.’ – Frank Crowninshield

‘I’m not in a position to tell anyone anything about how to live his or her life, but I think it’s worth noting that no one can lie to us as effectively as we can lie to ourselves. We know exactly what to say! And I do think that women, even extremely smart women, can be very, very vulnerable to men.’ – Jean Hanff Korelitz

‘I started thinking about what I’ve always been interested in: how people can’t see things that are right in front of them. All you have to do is read the papers to see endless examples of smart people who can’t see the nose on their faces.’ – Jean Hanff Korelitz

‘The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I’m not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I’m writing.’ – Bob Shacochis

‘I am impressed with the innovation in the wireless marketplace. The Blackberry, the iPhone, the Pre, and other smart devices are breakthrough technologies that have helped revolutionize the wireless space.’ – Julius Genachowski

‘The U.S. Congress can do a lot to support America’s workplaces and the family. By working together in a bipartisan fashion, we can ensure our constituents get jobs they need while helping employers make smart decisions about their workforce.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.’ – Mike Quigley

‘For folks in Washington to believe that they are smart enough to pick the next energy technology is, in my judgment, the height of arrogance. For me or any of my peers to pick energy-technology X as the solution to solving America’s energy problems is just a fool’s errand.’ – Mike Pompeo

‘The government can take smart steps to give all kids the healthy start they need to reach their full potential.’ – Kirsten Gillibrand

‘Your priority has to be the creativity – and build a brand. That’s what everybody did – Balenciaga, Dior, Saint Laurent. That’s the smart thing to do.’ – Nicolas Ghesquiere

‘When I first came to Washington, what I admired most was that people were just really, really smart with a tremendous amount of intellectual horsepower and the ability to look at an issue and say something fresh.’ – Ezra Klein

‘I’ve done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.’ – Laura Vandervoort

‘In order to build a great technology company, you have to hire lots of incredibly smart people. It’s a total waste to have lots of big brains but not let them work on your biggest problems.’ – Ben Horowitz

‘When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies.’ – Ben Horowitz

‘Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘Smart cities are those who manage their resources efficiently. Traffic, public services and disaster response should be operated intelligently in order to minimize costs, reduce carbon emissions and increase performance.’ – Eduardo Paes

‘Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it’s underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time with sports. Watching it, reading about it, I think it’s oddly underrated.’ – Tyler Cowen

‘I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization.’ – Tyler Cowen

‘I’m really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking.’ – Noreena Hertz

‘So key for making smart decisions is a mindset that actively monitors and is open to shifting tides and new information, one that is acutely aware that the interplay between our environment and its outcomes is ever in flux.’ – Noreena Hertz

‘I loved it. I just thought I wanted to stay in college forever. I came to New York all by myself; I didn’t have any friends there. But it was fine. I felt comfortable. I started thinking, ‘Maybe graduate school?’ I was really cool with people who were smart, who knew stuff. It’s very romantic and stimulating.’ – Alice Smith

‘The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of ‘Awake’ and also ‘Lone Star.’ I just think that he’s a really, really special writer, and complex and deep, and a really smart dude.’ – Jaime Ray Newman

‘I definitely feel like I’m a really good playmaker, a really smart point guard that can lead his team and win.’ – Trey Burke

‘My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.’ – Wendy Davis

‘In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I’m not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.’ – Caroline Paul

‘I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher’s pet.’ – Julia Glass

‘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

‘I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?’ – Clayton M. Christensen

‘Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.’ – Clayton M. Christensen

‘Decide while you’re young to keep the commandments of God, and you won’t have to think fast, because before temptation even steps up to the bat, you’ll have made your decision. You were smart enough to think first.’ – John Bytheway

‘Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.’ – David Hanson

‘There will be an end point to how good TV pictures can get. The boob tube has hugely benefited from the rapid advance of digital electronics. Consequently, the strategy for hardware has changed. In the old days, sets had to be as simple as Elmer Fudd to keep them inexpensive. All the technical ‘smarts’ were at the transmitter end.’ – Seth Shostak