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The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.
Agyness Deyn
Funny
Character
Man
Mind
Clever
About
Fact
He
Mainly
Good-Looking
Very
Interesting
Choosy
Even
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
Benjamin Disraeli
You
Clever
Very
Should
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Clever
Enough
Takes
Clever Man
Turn
Cynic
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great
Clever
Able
Conceal
Cleverness
Being
Act
I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.
James Lovelock
You
Change
Clever
Situation
Think
Enough
Complex
Evolved
Point
Inertia
Climate
Climate Change
Huge
Handle
Where
Anything
Meaningful
Really
Humans
The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam.
Joanna Lumley
Time
Shopping
Recycling
Clever
Unwanted
Every
Think
Every Time
Someone
Take
Idea
Concept
Item
Goes
Oxfam
Clothing
Store
Pop
Bin
Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer.
Mort Sahl
Today
Comedy
Too Much
Clever
Too
Say
Consumer
Comedian
Vulgar
Much
I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
Patrick Demarchelier
Beautiful
Woman
Clever
Beauty
Older
Through
Like
Because
Shines
Older Woman
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Terence
Clever
Sense
Common
Grand
Common Sense
Thing
Winning a Nobel Prize isn't about being clever at all. It's about making... at least in physiology or medicine, it's about making discoveries, and you don't have to be clever to make a discovery, I don't think; it just comes up and punches you on the nose.
Tim Hunt
You
Clever
Think
Medicine
Punches
About
Winning
Physiology
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Make
Making
Least
Discoveries
Discovery
Up
Prize
Just
Being
Nose
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
A. N. Wilson
People
Clever
Lawyers
Journalists
Clever People
Want
Really
Now
Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
A. S. Byatt
Death
Book
Clever
Enough
Pleasure
Rules
Solution
Find
All-Powerful
Something
Through
Take
Puzzle
Comforted
Revealed
Reduced
End
May
Being
Which
Packaged
Clues
Satisfactory
Why
Neatly
Gruesome
Playing
I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.
Abbey Clancy
Love
Job
Clever
Band
Abbey
Dream
Total
Follows
Never
Singer
She
Said
Always
Model
Wanted
Teachers
Waste
Actress
Mum
Her
DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
Ada Yonath
Language
Made
Clever
Machine
Come
Another
Proteins
Reads
Up
Very
Which
Forms
Amino
Code
Letters
Four
I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.
Alan Thicke
You
Experience
Degree
Clever
Separation
Live
Television
More
Feels
Looks
Felt
Always
Than
Improv
Expectations
Creates
Raises
Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Life
World
Simple
Clever
Consequences
Enough
Our
Release
We Cannot
Comprehend
New
Primitive
Forces
Terrific
Attuned
Brain
Cave
New World
Middle
Cannot
Which
Stand
Disposal
Whose
Here
Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they provide homes for myriad creatures, how - back when this country was covered in forests - the word for sky was an Old English word that meant 'tops of trees.'
Ali Smith
Great
Me
Old
Word
Sky
Country
Clever
Trees
Back
Circles
Tops
About
Myriad
How
Covered
Provide
Forests
Get
Meant
English
Creatures
Homes
Inner
Started
Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.
Allison Anders
Life
Tough
Clever
Films
Unless
Independent
Independent Films
Out
Memento
Something
Tough Life
Like
Most
Very
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
Ambrose Bierce
Joke
Clever
Philistine
Pleased
Seldom
Remark
Sharp
Call
Quoted
Noted
I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.
Amity Shlaes
Writing
Try
Sacrifice
Clever
Own
Think
Worried
Would
Some
About
My Own
Rather
Exercise
Narrative
Educated
Prove
Authors
Whether
Suffer
Biography
Need
Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Clever
Past
Insider
Laws
Make
Tightrope
Trading
May
Right
Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Change
World
Financial
Behavior
Example
Clever
Changed
Others
Some
Failed
For Example
Instruments
Trading
Wall
Wall Street
Littered
Use
Plans
Carbon
Street
I think it's such a clever idea, that you fall in love when you're 16, and then you have this fantasy about that person for the rest of your life.
Anne Reid
Life
Love
You
Rest
Clever
Fall
Think
About
Idea
Person
Fantasy
Then
Your
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
Girl
First
Clever
Other
Other Kids
Everything
Kids
Always
Still
Were
Very
Five
Than
Achieving
It's up to me to use my brain, be clever, find the pockets of space, and get on the ball.
Ashley Young
Me
Space
Clever
Find
Pockets
Ball
Brain
Up
Get
Use
Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They're my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He's just really cool.
Aurora
Love
Man
Heroes
Clever
Lyrics
Everything
About
Seems
Voice
He
Like
Clever Man
Well
Does
His
Just
Dylan
Biggest
Bob
Bob Dylan
Really
Cool
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