Clever Quotes
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You can't undo yesterday, you can work on today, tomorrow, you will wonder how you screwed up 2 days in a row
Eddie Long
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Throughout history, people have enjoyed playing both silly and clever games.
Erno Rubik
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I began to see, again and again, stories that were first confusing and second where the emotional impact was muted because the big scene came before the explanation of what was going on. There was a reverse chronological order as well as a concealment of what exactly was going on. I think often that comes out of the fear of being boring, and sometimes I think it's just an attempt to seem clever.
Alice Mattison
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A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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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.
Savannah Guthrie
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They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.
Wilt Chamberlain
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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
Lao Tzu
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The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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This is very clever; I wrote it myself.
Phil Silvers
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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If you're racist you're not that clever. I mean, you couldn't even figure out that we're all the f---ing same
Cenk Uygur
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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.
Marvin Minsky
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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.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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It's clever, but is it Art?
Rudyard Kipling
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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
Jane Austen
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Navigating the studio system has its own challenges, and, as a producer, you want to be astute and clever.
Marc Platt
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Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?
Trenton Lee Stewart
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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives
William C. Dement
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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John Peel
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...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters are so compellingly clever that they simply can't tolerate boredom. It takes more to engage and entertain this kind of human, and they need an outlet or they get into trouble. "...knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
Catherynne M. Valente
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A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
Jonathan Kozol
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He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.
Madeleine de Souvre