#iq

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused. ↗

— Bob Woodward

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To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

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Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

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Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. ↗

— Stephen King

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. ↗

— Andre Gide

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Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far. ↗

— Joe Morton

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With the Hubble telescope and all the other things that are out there, I believe something would have come through. Today, I really believe we are unique. ↗

— Mark Goddard

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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

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I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

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