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Jai Ganesh

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Clever Quotes - IV

Clever Quotes - IV

1. I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college. - Anthony Hopkins

2. Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later. - Lech Walesa

3. 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

4. I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education. - Michelle Obama

5. 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

6. Throughout history, people have enjoyed playing both silly and clever games. - Erno Rubik

7. 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

8. Unfortunately scripts don't chase me. I chase them. I struggle, battle, discard, pick it back, struggle further, plead with it, curse it, cajole and try to be clever. But it is invariably the script that rules. - Mani Ratnam.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.