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I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that`s what she did.

- Donna Mills

Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn`t going to give you any more money.

- John Sayles

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

- Abby Aronowitz

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

- Alexander Nikonov

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

- Alexander Nikonov

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

- Alexandra Starr

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

- Alfonso Felder

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

- Allison Sharp

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

- Andreas Hoistad

Our job is to sell our clients` merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.

- Andrew McLaughlin

We threw memory at any problem we could find; that was really the cleverness of (the Alto),

- Anne Sekel

I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Cleverness is not wisdom

- Euripides

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing

- Henri Frederic Amiel

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it

- Israel Zangwill

What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.

- J. William Fulbright

It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one`s cleverness

- Janet Watson

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

- Plato
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