"I'm not really book-smart."
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"We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not."
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"At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:And as the last slow sudden drops are shedFrom sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,So singly flagged the pulses of each heart."
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"In religion, the ego manifests as the devil. And of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else."
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"They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart."
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"I have surrounded myself with very smart people."
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"It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-ass."
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"Tupac gave us validity. Tupac made the kid getting beat up every day realize that it was okay to be smart. Tupac made the knucklehead realize that it was okay to stay home and read a book. A fool at 40, a fool forever."
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"I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know that if Usher wants to help you, you let him."
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"Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them."
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"Being a bigger person, whether you're male or female, in entertainment, it can hurt your chances. Because people look to you to be a so-called superstar. Perfect body, perfect figure, good looking, and smart. And larger people, we have to fit in anywhere we can and the best way we can, so to speak. The way the world looks at you at being perfect, and nobody's perfect."
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"I've always been a person that believes in eating often and eating smart, clean meals."
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"I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart."
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"I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed."
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"When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer."
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"I think we can save a lot of money if we do smart growth, where we build the homes and all of this closer into towns."
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"If you do smart things and use leverage and do one wrong thing along the way, it could wipe you out, because anything times zero is zero. But it's reinforcing when the people around you are doing it successfully, you're doing it successfully, and it's a lot like Cinderella at the ball."
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"I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest."
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"We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness."
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"I think I'm smart unless I'm really, really in love and then I am ridiculously stupid."
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