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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.
If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.
Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.
I've built a career on the survival skill I honed early on: being a smart aleck who is good with a fast comeback.
The kitchen is the most valuable room in the home, so a smart kitchen reno will bring great return on investment.
There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.
Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.
That is not all I need. I need dogs. A house filled with dogs and a smart, funny, kind, loving girlfriend or wife.
I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments
If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.
If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
I always hear, 'Oh, she's really beautiful.' I'd die to hear, 'Oh, she's really smart.' I'm not as dumb as I look.
Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.
Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
If clients don’t trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. It doesn’t matter how smart you are.
When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.'
You’re never as smart as you think you are when you are winning and never as dumb as you feel when you are losing.
I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in.
What you have to have is very smart, motivated, dedicated, and focused engineers and focus them on the right goal.
I realise that I need to be selfish at times as well as smart in decision-making and just not throw away my wicket.
I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.
People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.
I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.
If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.
Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?
Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.
The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.
I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.
I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.
I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.
Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.
If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
As you get older you realize your parents don't look so dumb - and that you're not as smart as you thought you were.
My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.
If you maintain a healthy diet, or at least are smart about your food choices, you'll still see the pounds come off.
How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.
The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.
We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.
Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress.
The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.'
I just need to be in a position where I can control the ball, make smart decisions, and do what I'm coached up to do.
I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.