"There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth."
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"I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?"
"I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb."
"I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb."
"The superfluous, a very necessary thing."
"there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better."
"Push yourself, when you get smart up top (in your head), your skills will fall right into place."
"This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants."
"When you success you have to be very smart and be extra focused and protect your surroundings."
"I love people, 'cause people are so smart. People have done a lot of great things."
"Remember to be as smart as you are."
"You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way."
"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
"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."
"A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright."
"You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future."
"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."
"After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up."
"Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living."
"Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you."