Amir Khan
Amir Khan

If I hadn't gone towards boxing, I might have been one of those kids getting into trouble. A lot of my friends did. They were clever kids at school, but they just went down the wrong path.

Amity Shlaes
Amity Shlaes

I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.

Amy Childs
Amy Childs

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

Amy Tan
Amy Tan

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

Ana Kasparian
Ana Kasparian

The push to defund public schools and reroute taxpayer money to charters and private institutions is actually a very clever strategy by the Right Wing, which has always had a great deal of disdain for a system that forces them to pay taxes toward some other kid's non-religious, science-based education.

Andre Schurrle
Andre Schurrle

I think I'm quite a clever player and that I realise there are times when I can be offensive but others when I must be more compact and work for the team, because that is what matters.

Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli

I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.

Andrew Ross Sorkin
Andrew Ross Sorkin

Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.

Andrew Ross Sorkin
Andrew Ross Sorkin

Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.

Chip Esten
Chip Esten

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.