Intellectual Quotes
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
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All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
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I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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We can code wills, escrows, trusts, notaries, revokable charge backs, proof of contracts, intellectual property enforcement. What Wall Street does can be done in code by Bitcoin.
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
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I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.
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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
