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Clever Quotes
Lines that admire quick thinking and inventive minds.
Cleverness shows up in a sibling who worked out the family's puzzles first, in songwriters who favor sharp lyrics, and in teammates who find ways around a defense without breaking the rules. This page rounds up quotes about that kind of quick, inventive thinking. For related pages see Clever People.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer.
- Parents
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I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.
- Juice
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Before I made 'Sweetback,' I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to proclaim that I wanted to do an independent film.
- Direction
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Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.
- Look
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It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.
- Live
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I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.
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Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.
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I rate Dave Luiz as a top defender. He's very clever. But I don't know if he's as quick as me. And if he kicks me, he kicks me. It's fine. I can't react to anything.
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When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.
- He
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He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
- Men
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life.
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