Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
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Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
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KEN BURNS Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this...
TAYLOR HACKFORD There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smith...
MICHAEL JAI WHITE Artificial Intelligence can be a supplement to human insight, not substitute.
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MICHAEL SCHEUER Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.
VANESSA FERLITO If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.
STANLEY CROUCH Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.
CHESLEY SULLENBERGER There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.
KEITH RICHARDS The more time you can spend in sevens, the better. Time is invaluable; there's no substitute for...
HENRY SPEIGHT Let's face it: Russell Crowe is fat and no one ever talks about it.
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MATT SMITH I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligen...
JOHN MACKEY Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace...
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to ...
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JEREMY PAXMAN I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.
CONAN O'BRIEN Practice is a substitute for talent; however, there is no substitute for practice.
REBEKAH CYPHERS An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I think that citizens should be skeptical of government power. But I fear it's bled over to cyni...
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SHAWN COLVIN I think it will be good for Alabama, Russell shareholders and Russell employees.
LONNIE STRICKLAND An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
KEVIN KELLY For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intell...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.
DAVID FINCHER God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a m...
ARJUN KAPOOR If Russell Crowe says that he's Noah, he's Noah. You never doubt it. If he says that he'...
RYAN GOSLING We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
MAYA ANGELOU I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lo...
SPIKE LEE In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a...
BARACK OBAMA You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator.
JOEL SIEGEL We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority whi...
HENRI BERGSON In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. ...
ERIC HOFFER Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody...
CRISS JAMI You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense o...
MITCH ALBOM Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
IMMANUEL KANT The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior t...
JANE HARMAN There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of ...
GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS My son Matthew's beloved dog is a Jack Russell. His name is Buster. Matthew picked him as a pupp...
ROB LOWE Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cy...
JEFF BRIDGES I think it's easy for directors to stay fresh more than actors, especially once an actor becomes...
MICHAEL MANN It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
HENRY ADAMS If we want the best pitcher, let's get Bobby Feller. If want the best football player, let's...
BOBBY KNIGHT Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.
ANITA RODDICK Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
OSCAR WILDE Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy.
LEONARD RAVENHILL There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity...
ALEC BALDWIN For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a ...
EDWARD DOWDEN Love what you do. There's always going to be someone else who's smarter than you, but there&...
IVANKA TRUMP L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, ...
LYDIA MILLET I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret a...
JUSTIN TRUDEAU This could really cripple it,
JON CLEARY Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence....
DANIEL GOLEMAN Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical id...
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DON MCCLELLAN I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
NATHAN FILLION I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of...
SERJ TANKIAN Contentment is the only one substitute for happiness.
KISHORE BANSAL The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
RAYMOND DUNCAN There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
VACLAV HAVEL I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
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CESAR CHAVEZ Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.
WALT KELLY Compassion is no substitute for justice.
RUSH LIMBAUGH Reading is no substitute for action.
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT There is no substitute for victory.
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR There is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple.
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BERTRAND RUSSELL Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whet...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchston...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but e...
BERTRAND RUSSELL We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the se...
BERTRAND RUSSELL It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to ea...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Do not fear to be excentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the poss...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to en...
BERTRAND RUSSELL This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one ...
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