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Smart People Quotes (page 5)

DWIGHT:Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying. Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people. Frank Miller
The difference between these people and me is that they finished college and I didn't; as a consequence, they have smart jobs and I have a scruffy job, they are rich and I am poor, they are self confident and I am incontinent... they have opinions and I have lists. Nick Hornby
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.... Noam Chomsky
She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I don’t know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life. Michael Ondaatje
You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart. Mitch Albom
The fact was that the woman lived the life she chose, she was happy in that life and it was no one's business after all but her own, my uncle's face darkening with blood as he spoke, my mother's fair fine skin pink as if smarting yet still I persisted, for I thought it such a horror, such a grief, yes and an embarrassment too, I said, "She's made a prison of this house, it's like she's a nun, it must be to punish herself," and my mother said quietly, angrily, "You don't know - what do you... Joyce Carol Oates
Wendell Berry quote: "If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some..."
If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be? Wendell Berry
Craig Ferguson quote: "Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status..."
Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else. Craig Ferguson
The whole thing reminds me of graduate school seminars, except these people are smart and funny and have something interesting to say. Sarah Vowell
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor..."
I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule. Laurell K. Hamilton
Giada De Laurentiis quote: "It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a..."
It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook. Giada De Laurentiis
What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice? Dan Deacon
No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are. Ellen DeGeneres
Emily Procter quote: "It's so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to..."
It's so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things. Emily Procter
There's always going to be someone out there... who doesn't believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you're not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing. Jimmy Fallon

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