Clever Quotes
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Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.
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Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
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Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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I've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I felt sometimes they were a little bit soft, but maybe they were clever to get the guys working the way they wanted them to.
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Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I'm not interested in books that are just clever and well executed; polish doesn't impress me, and I don't care about a merely capable sentence. Life is short; I want a confrontation with high art. I want soul.
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If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.
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Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.
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I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
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I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.
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The failure mode of clever is 'asshole.'
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This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.
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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
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Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
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What beats me - it always does - is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.
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It is better to have a retarded president who respects human values than a clever government without human values.
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From sublime affairs of state to the stark and vulgar popular culture of our own contemporary lives, let's make this descent into the lower registers together and recognize the good, nasty fun of 'Gone Girl,' Chicago writer Gillian Flynn's novel about the mysterious disappearance of a clever and deceptive young Midwestern housewife.
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Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
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I like clever lyrics, funny lyrics, dumb lyrics. I can never put my finger on what I like about them.
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Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.
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Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
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I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
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Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
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To pronounce something clever and honest is not such a big deal, lots of them have been said and written. For a statement of truth to be effective and for it to make people wiser, it has to be filtered through the soul of a highest quality, the soul of an artist.
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Because Johnny was especially clever I think we should make him monitor for the whole week. Don't you?
