It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
Jake Barton
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.
Elaine Stritch
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. Fields
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Too clever is dumb.
Ogden Nash
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
A. N. Wilson
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The key for me is movement. When the ball comes into the box, or when the wide players get it, that's where I have to be clever and make my runs. That's where I come alive.
Jermain Defoe
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Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.
Menander
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I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
Amy Tan
PeopleVoiceThoughtEnoughClever
After a while, you become really irritated that you're not recognised as the person who wrote 'The Full Monty.' Everyone goes on about how lovely the characters are. That's because they were written! 'What a clever title.' Yeah, that's because I made up the title!
Simon Beaufoy
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It's difficult to be clean and clever at the same time, but a lot of our stuff was.
Ronnie Corbett
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It's difficult to differentiate between a story that's humorous and clever and one that actually makes people laugh out loud.
Mick Foley
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I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.
Jojo Moyes
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The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally.
Bobbie Ann Mason
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There is nothing clever about confusion.
William Wyler
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I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.
Paul Weller
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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Thomas Mann
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My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.
Nico Rosberg
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I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding.
Lydia Millet
CleverNamesLike
People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.
Kelly Brook
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Henri Frederic Amiel
PeopleNothingWillCleverTolerate
I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.
Ellie Goulding
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I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.
Charli XCX
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