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Kids are so shrewd.
Maurice Sendak / Illustrator
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Sometimes I wish I was more shrewd.
Ralph Macchio / Actor
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My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.
C. Thomas Howell / Actor
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If politics is a game of shrewd and knowing men, Trump has ruined it.
Michael Wolff /
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Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
Rex Stout / Writer
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If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?
Katie Price / Tv Personality
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I don't think Vince McMahon is evil or the devil. I think he's a very shrewd business man.
Ted Dibiase Sr. /
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essayist
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My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
Rod Stewart / Singer-Songwriter
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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Charles Horton Cooley / Sociologist
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I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.
Rod Stewart / Singer-Songwriter
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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 / Philosopher
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Hated
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It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling.
Jung Chang / Writer
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They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.
Joshua Slocum / Writer
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Information
Let It Go
Arrest
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We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
Dan Quayle / Former Vice President Of The United States
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Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
Emily Dickinson / Poet
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Flight
Woods
God Faith Me
Sisters
Cage
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What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now.
Jim Cramer / Television Personality
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Opening
Today
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If you make a strange, eccentric record - like the Velvet Underground's 'White Light/White Heat' - it takes on its own mood because it's less about a shrewd marketing plan; it's more about an individual emotion.
Lou Barlow / Musician
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I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite.
Michael Dirda / Critic
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The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
Jerome Bruner / Psychologist
Education
Coins
Conclusion
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Hypothesis
Laziness
Leap
School
Thinker
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Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
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My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.
Mikhail Baryshnikov / Choreographer
Anti Semitism
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Military
Nervous
Party
Term
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My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'
Gore Vidal / Writer
Courage
Courageous
Journalist
Always Mind Me
Says
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson / Baseball Player
Baseball
Brooklyn
Courageous
Dodgers
Hands
Tough
Trapped
Unhappy
Branch
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Enough Money
Marry
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You find a personality whom you think the TV audience will embrace and find a format that is tailor-made for the personality. In the case of Andy Griffith, we moved the personality of a wily country shark - a funny and shrewd guy - into another arena. In this case, he is a lawyer, and it is a dramatic series.
Fred Silverman /
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