If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they’d go to the library instead of Bloomingdale’s.
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You gotta have two things to win. You gotta have brains and you gotta have balls. Now, you got too much of one and not enough of the other.
I was never the brains behind the band – that was always Liam. But together we were a complete package. It was the outlet I was looking for.
Dorothy: How can you talk, if you haven't got a brain? The Scarecrow: I don't know. But, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they? Dorothy: Yes. I guess, you're right.
— Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, Dorothy Gale, Judy Garland, imdb.com
Bombs won't stop terrorism, brains will, and we don't have nearly enough of those. I'm gonna give you a shot, Snowden.
— Kieran Fitzgerald, Oliver Stone, Corbin O'Brian, Rhys Ifans, imdb.com
Alex: You remember when I was little and I was afraid to fight? Yolanda: Yeah, you had brains back then. Alex: Do you know what I was afraid of? Yolanda: Getting hurt? Alex: Losing.
— Maria Elena Rodriguez, Adam Fierro, Alex Santiago, Nicholas Gonzalez, imdb.com
Eddie: Don't go puttin' none of that stuff on my sled, Clark. You know that metal plate in my head? I had to have it replaced, cause every time Catherine revved up the microwave I'd piss my pants and forget who I was for a half hour or so. So over at the VA they had to replace it with plastic. It ai…
Bombs won’t stop terrorism, brains will.
Silvio Dante: His brains are splattered all over the seat. Paulie Walnuts: Joey Peeps? Couldn't have been too much to clean up.
— Terence Winter, Matthew Weiner, Paulie Walnuts, Tony Sirico, imdb.com
We have enough people that can shoot guns. We needed someone with brains.
But there’s no doubt that whatever their brains look like, behavior and school performance differences between men and women are strongly shaped by socialization.
Colloquially, we might call someone who lies a lot a psychopath, just as we might call someone who texts us more frequently than we want 'crazy.'
A primary psychopath won't necessarily be dangerous, but if we can see that in a kid, we can tell parents to look for certain kinds of behavior.
You've got the brains and the talent to go as far as you want. And when you do, I'll be right there to borrow money.
Daria: Only Quinn could turn having brains into a fad. Jane: You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
— Rachel Lipman, Glenn Eichler, Jane Lane (voice), Wendy Hoopes, imdb.com
You’re not friends. You’ll never be friends. Love isn’t brains, children, it’s blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love’s bitch, but at least I’m man enough to admit it.
Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained…
Rose: I never grew a beard! Sophia: You never grew brains, either!
If we can replace everything—cells, tissues—as we live, then there would be presumably no limits to how long we could live. But if we replace our neurons, we’re also rewriting our own experience in the process, and cease to be ourselves. I think that’s the real penalty for extending life beyond the…
Minds are useful when we need to conceptualize, plan, theorize. But when we depend on them to guide our inner lives, we're lost.