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• You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.

  Tina Fey

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  Tags in Smart, Laugh

• A lot of people who don’t write for kids think it’s easy, because they think kids aren’t as smart as they are, or that you have to dumb down what you would normally write for kids. But I think you have to work harder when you write for kids, to make sure every word is right, that it’s there for the right reason.

  Brian Selznick

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  Tags in Down, Smart

• My talent isn’t so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.

  Maria Semple

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  Tags in Smart, Smart People

• You don’t have to be dead to write a classic, and you don’t have to be literary to be smart.

  Lisa Scottoline

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• There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.

  Bernie Sanders

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• Anytime I write something that’s trying to be too smart, it doesn’t work.

  Emeli Sandé

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  Tags in Anytime, Smart

• I’ve seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them ‘mavericks with mentors.’ Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

  Brendon Burchard

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  Tags in Smart, Successful

• I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn’t feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.

  Mary J. Blige

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  Tags in Ashamed, Smart

• I want to make smart choices.

  Samantha Barks

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• In today’s world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we’re only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Today, Smart

• I was raised on ‘Get Smart’ and ‘All in the Family’ and ‘M.A.S.H.,’ and certainly when ‘Cheers’ came along, that was a big one.

  Eric McCormack

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  Tags in Smart, Big

• It’s really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.

  Marissa Mayer

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  Tags in Smart, Wonderful

• Be smart, but never show it.

  Louis B. Mayer

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• Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

  Seth Godin

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• Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there’s something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.

  Andrew Mason

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  Tags in Smart, Others, Useful

• In Europe they call geeks ‘smart people,’ and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn’t value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.

  James Marsters

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• Where is it written that a smart woman can’t also be stacked?

  Padma Lakshmi

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  Tags in Stacked, Woman, Smart, Written

• If you’re too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don’t do anything.

  John Malkovich

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  Tags in Time, Smart, Anything

• I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

  Dolly Parton

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  Tags in Smart, I Think

• Smart is when you believe half of what you hear. Brilliant is when you know which half.

  Robert Orben

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  Tags in Smart, Brilliant