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"I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars."
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"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."

"Solving a problem is intelligence. Preventing a problem is wisdom."

"One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?"

"Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?"

"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain."

"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."

"Dealing with one who feels smarter than you,let him assume that you ain't smarter than him."

"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."

"A truly intelligent person does not cling to any ideology."

"Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking for yourself."
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"I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point."

"The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something."

"For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart."

"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."
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