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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
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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?"

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Keanu Reeves Actor, Producer
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"I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb."

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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"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."

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Snoop Dogg Rapper, Actor
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"Push yourself, when you get smart up top (in your head), your skills will fall right into place."

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Hadley Freeman Journalist
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"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."

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Kobe Bryant Professional Basketball Player
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"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."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
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"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."

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Bill Russell Basketball Player, Coach
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"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."

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"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."

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Chris Rock Comedian, Actor, Writer
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"Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you."

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