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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.


I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!


Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.


Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.


The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.


DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.


I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.


I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.


Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.


I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.


When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.


Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.


Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.


What really destroyed Tucker Carlson, respected magazine journalist, was TV. TV exposed him as glib, smug, and not nearly as clever as he thought he was.


Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.


I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.


I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.


Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.


Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.


There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.