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" A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. "

" A clever man commits no minor blunders. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever. "

" A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions. "

" Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go. "

" A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing. "

" A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it. "

Calista Flockhart

" And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. "

" And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly. "

Mary Tyler Moore

" An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it. "

" Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today. "

Jose Maria Aznar

" As a model, we come in the room, and we are casted just on our looks. I think I'm funny; I think I'm clever. But in the end, they're picking me for my cheekbones or if I'm tall enough. "

" Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt. "

" Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. "

" Before I made 'Sweetback,' I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to proclaim that I wanted to do an independent film. "

Melvin Van Peebles

" Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. "

Charles Kingsley

" 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. "

" But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas. "

" Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels. "

Ines de La Fressange

" Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. "

George Bernard Shaw

" Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. "

" Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. "

" Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater good. Our manners, our tastes, our declarations are welcomed. Superior for life. Except when we're not. Except when we're dismissed or denounced as envious or petty, as derivatives and dependents by nature. Second class for life. "

Margo Jefferson

" Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. "

" Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. "

Frank Moore Colby

" Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" Clever tyrants are never punished. "

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