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  • I am not against working with Russia in areas of common interests at the same time. We're smart enough, or we should be smart enough to have a dual track policy. You know, walk and chew gum at the same time.

    Smart   Russia   Track  
    Source: www.politico.com
  • I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

  • There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."

    "Lou Doillon’s Canadian Love Affair". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. Interview with February 19, 2016.
  • I think the reason that a lot of people have to have a lot of people around is just about being smart and knowing what you want to talk about. I want people to know who I am. Respect is a huge thing - especially in my family. ... If you don't respect people, people aren't going to respect you back. It's just about yourself, you respecting others, and hopefully everyone else will follow that and respect you, as well.

    "'I've never been that person to fake it,' says Miley Cyrus". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 15, 2009.
  • One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends.

  • We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

    Smart   World   Enough  
  • Every time a player goes out to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be Number One in any business. But more important, you've got to play with you heart - with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

    Smart   Heart   Athlete  
  • You need to be smart about what you put in your body.

    Smart   Needs   Body  
  • No offense, boys are more immature than girls. Knowing that and not wanting any BS in my life - not having time for it - you just have to be smart about it. Obviously, if you're really attracted to someone and you're in love with them, that's fine. But I see all my brothers and how they act and ... to be picky is good.

    Girl   Brother   Smart  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

    Smart   Party   Looks  
  • Boxing has always been work to me, a job. If I could say anything to a youngster taking up boxing it would be to "be smart and not take a lot of punches". It's called the sweet science for a reason. Hit and not be hit, make a lot of money without taking a lot of punishment. That's what it's about.

    Sweet   Jobs   Smart  
  • I do believe in listening to your mind as well that that you need to be smart about certain things, to protect yourself. You need a healthy mix of both really, but it's important not to think so much that you're not able to follow your heart.

    Smart   Believe   Heart  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

    Smart   Book   Kids  
    "To Do Well In Life, You Have To 'Read Well'". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 10, 2012.
  • If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

    Smart   Simple   Brain  
    David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.233, Vintage
  • Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.

    Smart   Helping   Elusive  
    FaceBook post by Brandon Mull from May 24, 2013
  • Girls should never be afraid to be smart

    Girl   Smart   Should  
  • It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.

    Girl   Football   Sex  
    J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”
  • Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're a working woman or you're not. I'm raising two girls, and I say to them, 'I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful... You can be all of these things.'

    Beautiful   Girl   Strong  
    "Maria Shriver Takes on Alzheimer’s Advocacy". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2010.
  • It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

    Smart   People   Scare  
  • Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are.

  • You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

    Smart   Play   Dumb  
  • If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.

  • The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.

    "Ashton Kutcher Channels Steve Jobs In The Best 'Teen Choice Awards' Acceptance Speech Ever". Ashton Kutcher's acceptance speech for Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, www.businessinsider.com. August 11, 2013.
  • Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

    Wise   Smart   Want  
    "Why Jerry Seinfeld Doesn't Buy the 'Burden of Celebrity'". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 22, 2014.
  • I think it's incumbent upon me to try to be smart and make good choices and work with good people and work my ass off when I'm working with good people and I have to let everyone have their opinion afterwards. But this is what happens. You make a movie or you're on a show and then you have this experience and everyone tells you what you did. They tell you what you did. That's allowed. That's the experience of being human and subjectivity. That's it. We can only do what we'll do, and I can only do the best I can do.

    Smart   Thinking   People  
  • Be smart, but never show it.

    Smart   Cinema   Modesty  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

    Smart   Thinking   Way  
    "Digital Transformation - Part II: Collective Intelligence Is the Game Changer" by Rod Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2017.
  • I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

    j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”
  • In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

    Funny   Smart   School  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that a woman must be defined by her idea of modesty, that she is the vessel for honor in a community. And I believe that we have to be very pragmatic, too, about the consequence of this. Women in Iran and Saudi Arabia are jailed, punished and harassed if they don't cover themselves legally, according to the standard of those countries. So the consequences for many women is oftentimes very dark.

    Country   Smart   Believe  
    "The Case Against Wearing Hijab To Support Muslim Women". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.
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