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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Usually, the loudest in the room is the weakes. The quietest man in the room, who is being very observant, is the smartest and the strongest.Roddy Ricch
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If you're the smartest person you know, it's time to know some new people.Robin S. Sharma
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Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. - Burt Bacharach
Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.Burt Bacharach
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I stopped going to high school when I met Big Pun, which wasn't the smartest thing. So I never got my diploma. When I went to prison, it's mandatory to get your GED if you don't have a high school diploma.Remy Ma
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That moment in 'Broadcast News' where Holly Hunter is told how great it is to be the smartest person in the room, and she cries and says it's awful - I definitely have moments like that sometimes, moments when introspection and drive can be lonely-making. And it doesn't help that I have a partner who is very work-oriented.Zoe Kazan
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Whenever people talk about dyslexia, it's important to know that some of the smartest people in the world, major owners of companies, are dyslexic. We just see things differently, so that's an advantage. I just learn a different way; there's nothing bad about it.Charlotte McKinney
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One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural.Ted Allen
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.Aaron Sorkin
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I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.Sylvester Stallone
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I love to walk into places and have what I think is, like, the prettiest, smartest wife in town. I kind of enjoy that.James Carville
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Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.Barry Ritholtz
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You may not be the best person in the room or the smartest or most experienced, but you can still control how hard you work on a project, and that's a quality that can really come through.Kasie Hunt
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McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War and of the Iraq War, but also holds a Ph.D. in history.Peter Bergen
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My mom is a very independent person, and she's the funniest, smartest person in the room, all the time.Linda Cardellini
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I have interacted with several top leaders. Modi is among the three smartest leaders I have met.John T. Chambers
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I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.Dennis Quaid
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Probably the best caddies are the smartest ones and the ones that are switched on mentally more than some of the others maybe.Lee Westwood
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I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that's the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.Douglas Coupland
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Uber has an information advantage, a computational advantage. There's massive structural advantages to the player who's smartest about how to deploy cars, where to deploy cars, how to adjust pricing dynamics, how to ensure supply of drivers - the party that understands best the behavior of riders.Chris Sacca
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Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest. Evolution favors those creatures best adapted to their environment. That is the sole test of survival and success.Harvey V. Fineberg
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Brock has always been the smartest guy in this business at self promotion, knowing what he's worth, knowing what he wants and what he brings to the table.Arn Anderson
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I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.Jack Welch
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I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers are so resilient and strong, it's just amazing.James St. James
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If you want to deal with an epidemic - crime or health - the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.Kamala Harris
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If I'm the smartest guy in the room, I'm in the wrong room.Chad Stahelski
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Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.William Bernbach
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If you apprentice yourself to the smartest people who will take you seriously, you will learn at every step. You'll learn their special language. You'll see what real people do. Your interests might surprise you. They will evolve. And you'll be well-positioned to take advantage of whatever opportunity life throws your way.Marc Randolph
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My entire career has been built on the understanding that I am not only not the smartest person in the room, I am definitely not the smartest person in the world. And I am instead going to try to create as many opportunities to connect those great ideas and help them be great.Alexis Ohanian
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It is accurate that the Walt Disney Company and ESPN are committed to diversity and inclusion. These are long-standing values that drive fundamental fairness while providing us with the widest possible pool of talent to create the smartest and most creative staff. We do not view this as a political stance but as a human stance.John Skipper
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I watch 'Electronic Boy' faithfully every week - not because I like the show but because I'm interested in where the smartest T.V. producers and directors are going, what direction they are headed in.Hirokazu Kore-eda
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I refuse nothing less than knocking out Tony Ferguson if that fight gets made. You know, as dumb as he is, maybe the smartest thing is not to fight me for him, that's for sure.Al Iaquinta
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I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician unlike any we've ever seen regarding his intellect. I don't believe any of this hocus-pocus. I didn't believe it when they said it about Hillary, Smartest Woman in the World.Rush Limbaugh
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I was not treated like a serious young actress, and that was very hard. It sent me into psychotherapy, which is one of the smartest things I ever did. It taught me that I had to find value in myself.Rita Moreno
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Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.Nick Denton
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My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It's Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it.Guy Kawasaki
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I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.Larry the Cable Guy
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What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.Patti Stanger
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I'm never the smartest guy in the room. I'm willing to work harder than most people around me, come earlier, stay later.Bill Rancic
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One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.Dave Goldberg
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One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts, that funds the arts. In essence, they've gotten people to pay $200 for a t-shirt plus the feeling of participation in another artist's endeavor.Jessica Jackley
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Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans. - Corey Taylor
Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.Corey Taylor
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We have some of the smartest businessmen in India, who have created huge wealth.Lara Dutta
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You have to avoid what I call the 'smartest boy in class syndrome,' which is, just because you know it, you don't have to tell it. I often will go through a manuscript crossing stuff out, and say, 'This is just too much,' you know?Don Winslow
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Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.Larry Ellison
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My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.Donald Trump
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I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!Muhammad Ali
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Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.Will Rogers
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The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.Eric Alterman
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I try to surround myself with people smarter than me - if I'm the smartest guy in the room, I change rooms.Adam Neumann
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I feel that 'Person of Interest' is the same quality as 'Brotherhood.' I think it's one of the smartest network television shows on the air today. The audience is a wide range of individuals.Kevin Chapman
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Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.Kate Mara
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What happened was, my parents after 'Circus Boy' decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.Micky Dolenz
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I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.Ian Dunbar
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.Ben Stein
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I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.Nancy Pickard
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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.Elon Musk
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The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.Ben Fountain
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I feel like Soulja Boy was one of the smartest when it came to connecting with your fans and taking that to another level.Lil Yachty
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