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Intellectual Quotes

To an Ohio boy, it represented world-weary Gallic shrugs and Gauloises cigarettes, existentialist thinkers in berets and Catherine Deneuve in nothing at all - French was the language of intellectual power and effortless sex appeal.

Power Language Sex Intellectual Boy

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Intelligence Words Man Intellectual

There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.

Music You Intellectual Nothing How

Sometimes a villain is very quiet - it makes them more deadly, more intellectual.

Villain Quiet Intellectual Sometimes

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Intellectual Subway Highway Also

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

Truth Reality Intellectual Why Idea

My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.

Man Parents Deep Intellectual Were

Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings.

Job Rich Dumb Intellectual Impress

My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.

Father Home Me Back Go Intellectual

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

Alanis Morissette

Writing Start Process Intellectual

When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity.

Lose Intellectual Get Intensity Too

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

People Socialism Intellectual See

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Soul Purpose Mind Eye Intellectual

I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.

Person Intellectual Want Pretend Who

In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control.

Life Fear Control Intellectual Talk

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

Words Ideas Intellectual Will Lead

Blumhouse Books is not an outlet for us to mine intellectual property for movies and TV.

Intellectual Movies Property Us Mine

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

Work Think Better Intellectual Other

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Jorge Luis Borges

Writing Reading Intellectual More

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

Myself Rebel Intellectual Africa Old

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

Funny Me Intellectual Label

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

Francis Parker Yockey

Politics Intellectual True Aim Who

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

Christopher Lasch

Silence Important Intellectual

Every man on the planet should do some physical work: he should help in the bread-labor of mankind. He should also do some of the intellectual work: he should help in the thought-labor of mankind. In a word, every thinker should work, and every worker should think.

Work Man Think Help Intellectual He

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