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. – Laura Bush
I think generally the heads of terrorist groups are very, very smart people. They’re also great manipulators. I would presume that cult leaders are identical. These sort of individuals are very strong, they have very strong charisma. – Loretta Napoleoni
You don’t have to be dead to write a classic, and you don’t have to be literary to be smart. – Lisa Scottoline
I’m an owner that tends to absolutely be supportive of a coach and his vision if it’s a real sharp and smart vision. I really believe in that. – Jeffrey Lurie
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they’re men. – Meryl Streep
My parents were just as smart as I am, just as hard working if not harder; I think my father and grandfather were probably better men, yet I’ve been able to accomplish things professionally that they were not able to. – Marco Rubio
Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and diagnostic instruments that are built tough, cheap, and reusable for the developing world. – Muhammad Yunus
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness. – Kevin Kelly
I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world’s eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we’re protected, even if it’s not in our best interest. – Jason Ritter
When you live in America, it’s kind of insular – the news coverage that you get – unless you’re really smart about it and find more international news coverage. – Kim Raver
To my mind there are not enough things that show the Nazis as human, as smart people, charismatic people, who are not inhuman naturally. But who are able to be fantastically inhuman when they choose to be. – Martin Freeman
While eating gluten-free may help you lose weight initially because it eliminates baked goods, one has to be smart when choosing replacement options because the gluten-free versions often have the same number of calories. – Marcus Samuelsson
I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn’t because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful. – Kerry Greenwood
You know, to marry a man like Donald, you need to know who you are. You need to know who you are, and you need to be very strong and smart. – Melania Trump
I really want women to throw their shoulders back and stand up straight and use their big girl voices and not feel like they’re compromising their femininity to be strong and smart. – Katie Aselton
I turned down ‘Some Like It Hot.’ See how smart I am? I felt I couldn’t bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don’t need to compete with the wardrobe. – Jerry Lewis
I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in ‘Brotherhood.’ The writing was very smart. – Kevin Chapman
That is not all I need. I need dogs. A house filled with dogs and a smart, funny, kind, loving girlfriend or wife. – Moby
You’ve got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion. – Mike Rowe
I started thinking about what I’ve always been interested in: how people can’t see things that are right in front of them. All you have to do is read the papers to see endless examples of smart people who can’t see the nose on their faces. – Jean Hanff Korelitz
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. – Louis C. K.
If I could have come in for $10m, I would have done that. I’ve been pretty smart with my money. I’m playing because I want to play this game here – I want the opportunity. – Karl Malone
Latinos have enough voting power now to decide elections, and every smart politician knows this.We can’t afford to give our vote to those who alienate us, but neither to those who take us for granted. – Lionel Sosa
I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn’t feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years. – Mary J. Blige
To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens. – Kamala Harris
Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won’t be taken for a ride. And I’m confident about my movies. – Kajal Aggarwal
We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions for all of our ash basins. – Lynn Good
I’m a meathead, man. You’ve got smart people, and you’ve got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb. – Keanu Reeves
As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very intelligent. So I wasn’t inclined to take a biology course. But my father insisted, and maybe what he had in mind was that, if there were no jobs in physics, I would end up being a doctor. – James Rothman
