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• Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.

  Alexander Payne

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• The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

  Michel Houellebecq

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• Fashion should be fun. It shouldn’t be labelled ‘intellectual.’

  Carolina Herrera

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• You know, albums are a funny thing. They’re not like an intellectual decision. It’s a collection of your kind of musings.

  Glen Hansard

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• I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

  Richard Rorty

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• It’s head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn’t want to let it go.

  Dan Stevens

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• We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?

  Erin Gray

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• Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

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• But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don’t. Don’t evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

  Umberto Eco

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• I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

  Clint Eastwood

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• The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

  Edward H. Levi

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• I’m not like a high intellectual.

  Billy West

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• If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.

  A. N. Wilson

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• Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

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• What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

  Raymond Aron

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• I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

  Craig Ferguson

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• Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

  Patrick Buchanan

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• An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

  Charles Bukowski

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• I’m a fake intellectual.

  Adam Brody

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• You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don’t get past the third paragraph you’ve wasted your energy and valuable ink.

  Carl Hiaasen

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