Clever Quotes
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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
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Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.
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Either Angel Maria Villar was very clever or very stupid if Angel Maria Villar did not notice anything, it worries me that the RFEF president did not notice anything that was going on.
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But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It’s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend.
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You just have to be clever about who you work with. Had I done Gap or H&M, there's no way Louis Vuitton would have wanted to work with me. So you hold out for the big ones.
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All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.
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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
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Every system that we build will surprise us with new kinds of flaws until those machines become clever enough to conceal their faults from us.
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There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.
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Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.
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If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.
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If I ever see another Shakespeare production where somebody drives a Jeep on stage, I'm going to run screaming up the aisle. These tend to be matters of design. I mean, we're seeing a lot of - it's very common to see Shakespeare with automatic weapons, things like that. They are clichés. They're new clichés, but they are clichés. And they're provincial. It's not clever to do Henry V, and have everybody dressed in United Nations soldier's costumes anymore. I've seen that one too. That kind of thing irritates me.
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The gap between a dumb and a clever person may appear large from an anthropocentric perspective, yet in a less parochial view the two have nearly indistinguishable minds.
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I love books that rhyme. And I love books that are clever and have little lines in them that are meant to amuse the parents who will no doubt be reading the book over and over and over again.
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Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.
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Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.
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I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.
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It's clever, but is it Art?
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
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Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.
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A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
