Quotes by Smart In Jamaica we had the English way of schooling from the age of four, so when I got to America I was already a few years advanced because I started school at the age of three-and-a-half rather than six and my grades moved up accordingly. In America, they start you at school at six because the grades are different. I had to take a test and they didn't know what to do with me. It wasn't that I was any smarter; I had just started younger. All of a sudden I was jumped from eighth to tenth grade. They said I was very smart, but I was only smart in languages, really. Grace Jones smartamericaschool Today millions of people are living who will never do it again. Millions are being born for the first time - and millions are doing nothing because it's the best offer they've had this week. It is for these people and many others that the Surprise Party is conceived and desecrated, founded upon the principle that everybody is just as good as anybody else, even though they aren't quite so smart. Gracie Allen smartpartypeople The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career]. George Carlin smartcareersschool Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful. Gordon B. Hinckley smartgratefulhumble Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it. Graham Parker recordssmartfirsts Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb. Greg Camp smartrunningfun Tel Aviv is a dynamic international city with a lot of smart people, great fashion and food. I've met a lot of amazing people and there's this great energy everywhere. Greg Dulli smartfashionpeople The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny. Greg Giraldo smartintelligentself I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the people who are writing the legislation, because there are plenty of ulterior motives out there. Greg Graffin smartstrongbelieve It's always interesting to see what the real enthusiasts think, but they're rarely representative of the tastes of the wider audience, so I tend to write for myself, for an imagined smart 14-year-old, and for a couple of friends who are still big comics fans. Grant Morrison smartcouplereal A fantastic, gleeful, chrome-plated-slick debut of a novel. In Jonathan Chase, Markham has created the perfect cliche-shattering super spy while honoring the progenitors. Dangerously sharp, and genuinely fun-and very, very, very smart. I want more books like this. I want more books from the mind of Mr. Markham! Greg Rucka smartfunbook If clients don’t trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. It doesn’t matter how smart you are. Greg Smith smartclientsmatter The gamers are smart. They see right through the moral scale. Actually, with Dragon Age, I really liked the system the team came up with. It reflects what was important about the game, and that was the character relationships. It didn't really matter what the world thought of you, but it mattered what the person standing next to you thought of you. Greg Zeschuk smartteamcharacter When you quit school at an early age, I think you have a lifelong need to show the world - and maybe yourself - that you're really smart after all. George Carlin being-yourselfsmartschool The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if they're painters, you don't necessarily see them, or if they're actors, you see the role they're playing. In political life, you see women of enormous courage and smarts and humor, and that releases the talent, especially in little girls who are watching. Gloria Steinem smartpoliticalgirl I've never understood why it's a negative to showcase a talented, smart woman who also happens to be attractive. Gretchen Carlson attractivesmartnegative I say that being a smart writer doesn't make you a good writer. There's obviously a difference between talent and intelligence. And it may be that at some point intelligence begins to impinge on talent, or talent on intelligence. Gustavo Perez Firmat smartdifferencesmay I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office. George W. Bush smartleadershiplong Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for. Guy Maddin smartgoalfeelings I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork. Guy Ritchie moviesmartteamwork«4445464748495051525354»
