Quotes by Smart Ed, I see you're out drinking again. What's the occasion? I was sober. Ed Byrne smartcleverfunny The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere. Ed McMahon smartcommunitynature The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place. Ed McMahon smartnaturesuccessful Luck plays an enormous role in trading success. Some people were lucky enough to be born smart, while others were even smarter and got born lucky. Ed Seykota smartplaypeople I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky. Dwight D. Eisenhower smartluckwinning After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've saved some paper, everybody's healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it's all good. Eddie Murphy smartbeautifulkids You can never plan the future by the past. Edmund Burke smartinspirationtime The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness. Edna Ferber smarttownsserious I also think one of the things that's really hurting us is political activism of any stripe. Michael Jordan had it exactly right, he was my idol - when he was asked about a political question at one point and he said I'm not going to answer it, and they said why not, and he said: Because Republicans buy gym shoes too, right? That doesn't exist anymore, that kind of smarts. Edward Allen Bernero smarthurtthinking But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone. Edmund Spenser thronessmartheart The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb. Edward Dahlberg smartmarriagemen I don't think America can just drill itself out of its current energy situation. We don't need to destroy the environment to meet our energy needs. We need smart, comprehensive, common-sense approaches that balance the need to increase domestic energy supplies with the need to maximize energy efficiency. Edward Kennedy smartsciencethinking I just like working with smart people. Edward Norton smart-peoplesmartpeople For Keeping the Faith, I looked at [George ] Cukor's old films like The Philadelphia Story, stuff that's hilariously funny and really smart with a cutting critique in the humor, too. With this, when I read it, I was laughing a lot. Edward Norton philadelphiasmartcutting I thought Rounders was a comic movie in its way. First time I directed a movie, I wanted to do a comedy. I don't like things that are superficially one thing or another, mainly. My favorite comedies are really smart, too, and have a lot of levels to them as well. Edward Norton smartlevelsway Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart? Edward Young smartbrotherheart It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward. Elena Kagan smartgrowing-upgirl I try to be a smart quarterback. I'm not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score. Eli Manning smartjobsmoving [...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After a certain point, if you're smart, have spent time thinking about and defending your religion, and still haven't escaped the grip of Dark Side Epistemology, the inside of your mind ends up as an Escher painting. Eliezer Yudkowsky smartatheistdark There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys. Eliezer Yudkowsky smartskillsbook«3233343536373839404142»
