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The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.
- Ben Gibbard
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I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
- Dick Schaap
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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.
- Coco Rocha
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From sublime affairs of state to the stark and vulgar popular culture of our own contemporary lives, let's make this descent into the lower registers together and recognize the good, nasty fun of 'Gone Girl,' Chicago writer Gillian Flynn's novel about the mysterious disappearance of a clever and deceptive young Midwestern housewife.
- Alan Cheuse
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I rate Dave Luiz as a top defender. He's very clever. But I don't know if he's as quick as me. And if he kicks me, he kicks me. It's fine. I can't react to anything.
- Marko Arnautovic
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I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.' It's such a clever thing to stage. Parents would have read this when they were young and will want to share it with their children because they have such a fondness for the source.
- Bertie Carvel
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I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
- Usain Bolt
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A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
- Jonathan Kozol
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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
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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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Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.
- Jose Maria Aznar
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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 had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
- Malachy McCourt
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Somehow it seems more clever to refer to something instead of saying it.
- Dusty Hill
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I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.
- David Tennant
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I love Sara Bareilles. She's just so clever. I wish I were her. She's so awesome.
- David Archuleta
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I defend my position. I am not Messi. I am not Ronaldo. I have something else. I am not the quickest, like Walcott. I have to be clever and read situations. If I didn't have that, I wouldn't be able to play Premier League. Everybody has a strength - this is mine.
- Toby Alderweireld
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
- Ian Anderson
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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.
- John Carmack
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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
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'Throne of Glass' readers tend to be passionate, talented, clever, and welcoming - in fact, I'm consistently moved by just how welcoming 'TOG' readers are to new fans.
- Sarah J. Maas
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Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
- Michael Leunig
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I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.
- Jim Dale
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I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.
- Lisa Gardner
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The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he's got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them.
- Bernard Sumner
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The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.
- Samuel West
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I've always been accused of being too clever for my own good.
- Denny Laine
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I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.
- Kevin Nealon
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While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.
- Charles Frazier
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I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
- Patrick Demarchelier
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I haven't just got a fight IQ - and I'm clever. I've got that power. I've got that movement. I've got that timing.
- Darren Till
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
- Iris Apfel
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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
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Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set.
- Robert Reich
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If you're going to make a statement, I think you should write it in prose and make a statement. If you have characters who are mouthpieces for a point of view, then you have to be very clever about disguising it.
- Kenneth Lonergan
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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.
- Ty Burrell
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Hugo Strange is interesting in the sense that he's a master manipulator. He doesn't really engage Batman in any sort of physical way. His weapon is his mind, and he's very incisive and clever: he reads people and sizes them up almost instantly.
- Paul Dini
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
- Livy
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People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.
- Rory Bremner
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I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there'd be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.
- Michael Dickinson
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No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.
- Mark Haddon
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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
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Arsene has most of the media in his pocket now and is almost - almost - affecting the officials so that you can't tackle an Arsenal player. That's something he's very clever at working on and it's almost working in his favour, you can see that.
- Sam Allardyce
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I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.
- Jennifer Ellison
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I'm not clever. But I am level-headed, hard-working, dogged.
- Prue Leith
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You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that's not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. And then, once you get there, you do it again. A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. But you can't jump cliffs in a single bound.
- Terence Tao
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He's a very, very clever fighter, Manny, but you'd have to say the cleverest fighter in boxing is Mayweather. He adapts his style against whatever opponent he faces.
- Ricky Hatton
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I'm a strange kind of author - I like assignments. I wasn't clever enough to invent an iconic figure like Salander, but she's my kind of girl.
- David Lagercrantz
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I've had tweets questioning whether I really did go to university because surely I would have lost my accent if I did; a letter suggesting, very politely, that I get correction therapy; and an email saying I should get back to my council estate and leave the serious work to the clever folk.
- Steph McGovern
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My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.
- C. Thomas Howell
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It is not only about just doing a fast lap. You also need to use your brains and be clever, and I think that is what makes you a complete driver at the end.
- Max Verstappen
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I'm not as clever as J.J. Abrams and those guys who fill it with all of these things for people to find.
- Ruben Fleischer
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You just have to be clever about who you work with. Had I done Gap or H&M, there's no way Louis Vuitton would have wanted to work with me. So you hold out for the big ones.
- Ben Eine
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Sometimes I can switch into clever mode.
- Jesse Lingard
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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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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.
- Peter Capaldi
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There is no point going man-to-man with a player of Messi's ability. He is so clever he would drag your player all over the pitch and still find a way to destroy you, probably exploiting the hole you've left by assigning someone to that role.
- Tony Pulis
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Gerrard is quiet; if he speaks people listen. If he has something to say, it's important and clever. He's a hard worker, disciplined.
- Sven-Goran Eriksson
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Everyone is different but I love to watch that type of football: the clever players, the technical players. The beautiful game.
- Tom Cairney
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Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.
- Guy Finley
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Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
- Margot Asquith
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He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
- Margot Asquith
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No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
- Israel Zangwill
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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
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My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.
- Robert Harris
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Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go.
- Miranda Otto
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Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo?
- Rob Delaney
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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
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Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
- Cornel West
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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
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The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.
- Antony Beevor
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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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The mistake is to think that clever technology can solve everything, but it can't solve our relationship with nature, which is where I think it's gone wrong in that we have somehow abandoned our proper connection with nature.
- Prince Charles
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
- A. N. Wilson
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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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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
- Warren Spector
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There is nothing clever about confusion.
- William Wyler
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Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.
- Tina Brown
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I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
- Hugh Laurie
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To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.
- Hugh Laurie
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Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.
- Tony Randall
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Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
- Duke of Wellington
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My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
- Ian Hislop
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When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what we did.
- Gza
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As a small kid, I had this huge desire to be thought of as really clever.
- Lenny Abrahamson
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I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a person's mind and have an atmosphere about them.
- Sophie Hannah
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No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.
- Gene Roddenberry
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Women who are clever actresses have longevity because they're amazing actors, not because the camera loves them.
- Phoebe Fox
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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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To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
- Aristophanes
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Akhilesh Yadav played a clever game by joining hands with BSP so that he can save his skin and use Dalit votes to win a few seats.
- Yogi Adityanath
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I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.
- Tony Campolo
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A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
- Percy Ross
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There are many clever contractual ways to let a young player continue his career elsewhere while still having first option to bring them back in future. Contracts can include a buyback clause such as Barcelona had with Cesc Fabregas, or a sell-on clause where the development club benefit financially from all the work invested in the young player.
- Eniola Aluko
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To me, Stephen was my husband and the father of my children; one does not say to one's husband, 'Oh, you're so clever! I must worship the ground under your feet, or in this case, wheels.'
- Jane Hawking
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I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.
- Wendi Deng Murdoch
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
- Patrick Warburton
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