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I am clever enough to know that I am clever.


Mervyn Peake

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ALBERT EINSTEIN I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
OSCAR WILDE I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.
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DEYTH BANGER Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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MARY MACLANE Yesterday, I was clever, I wanted to be rich. Today, I am wise, I want to be happy.
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DEYTH BANGER No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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OSCAR WILDE They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
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FANNIE HURST It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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MICHELLE ZINK I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.
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OSCAR WILDE I exist as I am, that is enough.
WALT WHITMAN I know I'm not clever but I'm always right.
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go h...
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RAPHAEL KSOBIECH When did you get so clever?"
"When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.
JOHN CONNOLLY We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
WINSTON CHURCHILL In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.
VIJAY SINGH You are the ultimate freedom, peace and bliss - free from the trace of desire, fear and doubts.
AMIT RAY I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels tha...
SOPHIE HANNAH I am here and I'm alive. That's enough.
DON MIGUEL RUIZ I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge o...
WINSTON GRAHAM I'm lucky enough to be with someone, and I am happy.
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning ...
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DANA BRUNETTI We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.
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VERONICA ROTH I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
HUGH LAURIE I don't know what I am. And it's not important.
DON MIGUEL RUIZ There is always a way for those clever enough to find it.
RICK RIORDAN My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
JEANETTE WINTERSON My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.
MICHAEL STIPE I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG He was bright enough to be clever but too undisciplined to be intelligent.
ALAN ROBERT NEAL To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
G. K. CHESTERTON There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.
RICK RIORDAN I am not young enough to know everything.
SIR J.M. BARRIE I am not young enough to know everything.
JAMES M. BARRIE I am not young enough to know everything.
OSCAR WILDE I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
NORM MACDONALD I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.
ROY BEAN I know I am very beautiful.
ANNA HELD I know how deeply slothful I am.
JOSEPH EPSTEIN To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.
ROBERT REDFORD I am what I am. A fighter.
GORDON RAMSAY I have a clever and devious plan.
STEVEN BRUST I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don...
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.
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LES DAWSON The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!
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MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I really like clever men who challenge you.
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Smart and funny sea animals.
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HALIMA ADEN I am pro-American.
JOHN BOLTON I am not a centrist.
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