"Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times."
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"What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong."
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"Some people are faster than others; I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon."
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"He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia"
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"The theory of objectivism claims that there are certain things that most people in society can agree upon. A model is pretty. A lawyer is smart. Our society is based upon objectivism. It’s how we make rules and why we obey them."
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"I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation."
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"You're pretty smart for a Fed." "I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could get into the agency."
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"And I love it when your hair still wet cause you just took a shower. Runnin on a treadmill and only eating salad. Sound so smart like you graduated college, like you went to Yale but you probably went to Howard."
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"I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart."
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"The sooner we switch away from carbon-based fuel and start relying on renewable energy sources available in the United States, the sooner we will grow our economy by creating the millions of new jobs that will come from retrofitting homes and businesses, building smart grids, renewable energy systems and planting trees and all the rest. We need to create a lot of jobs that can't be outsourced."
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"You only know that you're smart because you're around dumb people from time to time!"
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"Texas Governor Rick Perry distanced himself from George W. Bush by saying, 'I went to Texas A&M. He went to Yale.' In other words, his idea of instilling confidence is by saying, 'Don't worry. I'm not as smart as George W. Bush.'"
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"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."
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"We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard."
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"M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more"
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"Kevin Feige and I have very smart people who work for us, who make sure that we see everything. And that we actually see everything. They see everything, tell us about it, we see it. You have to have people who work with you, who say 'you have to look at this film'. And then you look at it. You really have to look at it. You have to look at movies all the time."
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"When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a bolt of thunder. He was smart, and generous, and honorable without fail. He could exile a trespasser, check my math homework, and fix the leaky bathroom sink, all before dinner. For the longest time, I thought he was invincible. Above the petty problems that plagued normal people. And now he was gone."
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"Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative."
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"At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends."
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"It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea."
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