Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.
Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
I’m 27. I feel like I get it. I’m OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I’m brainy, some days I’m funny, some days I’m sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.
Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s brilliant ‘whiz kids’ tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
‘I don’t need brains,’ says the billionaire contemptuously. ‘I’m brainy enough myself!’ The broker cries out in desperation, ‘What, in heaven’s name, do you want?’ ‘Goodness,’ is the answer.
At the end of the day, teachers aren’t going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, ‘cause it was never gonna happen. We can’t all be brainy, can we? That’s just the way the world is.
I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.
You can’t be taught to be brainy. You’ve either got it or you don’t.
I’m reading a book, because I’m brainy. No, it is a book – if you don’t know, it is like a blog except bigger.
If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it’s probably not because they think it’s brainy.
I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.
