"It's a big jump from smart to motherwit."
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"American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England."
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"What is this?' 'A Smart Car' It looked like an SUV took a dump and out came the Smart Car"
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"Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid."
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"There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart."
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"Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice."
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"Barack Obama is clearly a smart guy, talented."
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"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."
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"I really love having smart and important conversations on TV."
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"If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties."
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"Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs."
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"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."
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"I'm always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts."
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"If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together."
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"Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts."
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"Sometimes I get this gut feeling about people - maybe I sense a hidden agenda or that they care for the money more than the message. I wish that I'd listen to that feeling instead of waiting for the truth to rear its ugly head. I'm a smart girl. I'm loyal. But sometimes I'm too loyal. I'm not loyal enough to myself."
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"I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had."
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"If I'm smart then I'll run away, but I'm not so I guess I'll stay"
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"Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good."
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"Smart, bold, and practical. I Will Teach You To Be Rich is packed with tips that actually work."
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