We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.
Mark Thomas
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That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.
Les Baxter
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I like clever lyrics, funny lyrics, dumb lyrics. I can never put my finger on what I like about them.
James Murphy
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
Graham Greene
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To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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What really destroyed Tucker Carlson, respected magazine journalist, was TV. TV exposed him as glib, smug, and not nearly as clever as he thought he was.
Alex Pareene
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There is still a lot to be said for the well-made, witty, clever, three-act comedy.
Terry Teachout
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I do believe that even if you're the most clever person around and you figure out the 'whodunit' and you're not surprised - that shouldn't prevent you from enjoying the story.
Marc Guggenheim
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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw
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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
Benjamin Disraeli
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
Samuel Butler
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst
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Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
John Major
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I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.
Amy Childs
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Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.
Tony Randall
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It's clever, but is it Art?
Rudyard Kipling
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I've learned by experience that, if I get too clever with lyrics, or if I'm not totally embodying my own wants and needs in the songs, I can't remember them.
Lou Barlow
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Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.
David Walton
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I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!
Anthony Minghella
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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