Regarding managing people, I am lucky to be surrounded by good, smart friends, some of whom own their own companies or have worked in ones and can lend experience. – Dylan Lauren
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. – Don Herold
My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out. – Frank Ocean
There’s a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do. – Charlie Rose
The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn’t let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing. – Fred Wilson
I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it. – Eminem
The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on. – Mario Batali
If you use your smart toothbrush, the data can be immediately sent to your dentist and your insurance company, but it also allows someone from the NSA to know what was in your mouth three weeks ago. – Evgeny Morozov
So key for making smart decisions is a mindset that actively monitors and is open to shifting tides and new information, one that is acutely aware that the interplay between our environment and its outcomes is ever in flux. – Noreena Hertz
I can’t say enough about how I’m against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help. – Erika Christensen
No one wants perfection. I want a confident, smart guy, obviously, but what’s hot is a guy who doesn’t have all the answers. We gals like a guy we can help because, ultimately, we like being needed. – Daniela Ruah
I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well. – Michael Hintze
There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it’s really cool to be smart. – Freeman A. Hrabowski III
If a woman is bed-heady and it doesn’t look put on, it’s pretty sexy. But when a woman is wearing a really smart dress with great heels and her hair is pulled back, that’s terribly sexy too – like an Audrey Hepburn kind of thing. – Eric Mabius
You see these young people in Antigonish who are coming from Cape Breton, and these are really smart, attractive young people, who are living in a place that’s been very rough economically. It’s a very special thing to be helpful there. – Gerry Schwartz
If you did something, and it wasn’t right, you definitely found out about it. And they were pretty smart people, both my parents, so you didn’t get too much by them. – Dennis Farina
I’m going to college. I don’t care if it ruins my career. I’d rather be smart than a movie star. – Natalie Portman
I wasn’t smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way. – Michael Ealy
I’m really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking. – Noreena Hertz
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly. – Mario Cuomo
I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn’t serious because I was smart. I wasn’t like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious – like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school. – J. Cole
I’ve never been good at making smart career decisions or doing the right strategic thing, and yet somehow it’s all led me to exactly the kind of career that I would have dreamed of having – if only I’d been smart enough to dream something like that. – Michael Cerveris
Turing was uncompromisingly honest. As soon as he didn’t think you were interesting or smart, he’d just turn around and walk away, even if you were in the middle of a sentence. – Morten Tyldum
My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn’t like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid. – Nate Diaz
I was asked once if I ever got tired of playing bimbos, and I answered that I’ve never played a bimbo. I’ve always played smart, manipulative women. Marilyn Monroe and Judy Holliday, who were not stupid, could play stupid really well, but I don’t do it well. – Morgan Fairchild
In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that. – Maira Kalman
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn’t survive. The smart ones got out. – Paul Mooney
That’s what I think is smart about ‘Durham County.’ It’s not derivative of anything American. It’s more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with. – Michelle Forbes
When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors. – Martin H. Fischer
