Clever Quotes
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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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Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.
David Walton
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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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With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way you avoid inflation is with labor deflation.
Catherine Austin Fitts
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This is very clever; I wrote it myself.
Phil Silvers
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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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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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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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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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It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.
Thomas Sowell
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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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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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Throughout history, people have enjoyed playing both silly and clever games.
Erno Rubik
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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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.
Melissa Etheridge
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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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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
Lao Tzu
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It's clever, but is it Art?
Rudyard Kipling
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Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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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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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John Peel
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I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
Anthony Trollope