People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

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.

I don't think Mitt Romney is a smart person. I never have thought he was a smart person. But the Mormons are very smart people.

People are already p*ssed off at me because I'm athletic and beautiful; to be smart in addition to that... it's like, too much.

A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!

I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot.

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile

I don't try to represent myself in a way that's not connected with my everyday reality, because I'm not smart enough to do that.

I've always thought my strengths were I'm smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely struggle with feeling confident.

I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.

Probably if you look like Tyra Banks, it probably is hard, even if you are really smart, for people to take - it surprises some.

I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill.

You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)

If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

Some [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are.

One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.

I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

I'm very smart with my paper! I stopped buying things for myself a long time ago - now I just buy things for my kids or my wife.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.

Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

When markets go down, opportunities go up for smart real estate investors. I would much rather play the downturn than the upturn.

I'm so smart now. Everyone's always like 'take your top off'. Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I'm not stupid.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

I'm an animal love, but I don't have the smarts to be a vet, or the heart to have been a vet cause I cry over any wounded animal.

As an actor, it easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself, 'Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?'

If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

Soon, I'm going to meet somebody around my own age, and she's going to be smart and beautiful, and I'm going to date her daughter.

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

You're entitled to say, if you're so smart, why don't you tell me what that dark matter is? And I'll have to confess I don't know.

Augmented and virtual reality technologies are the future of smart construction and we are just starting to see the possibilities.

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.

She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over.

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

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