Smart Quotes

I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.

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.

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.

Last month, the House of Representatives passed the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act, which would provide training and assistance to unemployed veterans, and break down bureaucratic barriers preventing them from finding work. It's smart legislation that members of both parties support, and I'm pleased the Senate passed it.

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.

It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.

By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.

If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.