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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Smart
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- Nov 07, 2020
If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.
- Private Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.
- Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the performance. But the Australian accent seemed to put them off. Now it's the opposite; they love Australians. And with my thick Californian accent I now have a problem convincing them I'm Australian.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.
- Key
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key for me is movement. When the ball comes into the box, or when the wide players get it, that's where I have to be clever and make my runs. That's where I come alive.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama spoke so slowly because he, a clever and cultured man, had constantly to be on his guard against sounding it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prince Charles has doomed himself by so clearly wanting to be thought clever and cultured: the clever, cultured people don't buy it, and the people don't want a clever, cultured ruler.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020