"I don't care how brilliant you are, " says Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots.
The geniuses on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley aren't looking so brilliant these days.
If my neighbour doesn't recycle at 60%, I've got to recycle at 120% to make up for him and it doesn't take a brilliant mathematician to work out that that's going to be rather difficult.
And most would argue that the media hasn't exactly done a brilliant job in shining a light even on that fait accompli.
As I have pointed out here before, if the Debt Management Office hadn't done quite such a brilliant job in borrowing for long maturities - such that the average maturity of UK debt is just under 14 years - the UK might well be like Italy in finding it very hard to borrow at any price right now.
Some brilliant prospects don't get hired, flaming out when background checks show they are difficult to work with.
It turns out being a brilliant economist wasn't even his main interest.
Equally, during the last 16 years when crime has been falling, people haven't said it is down to brilliant detective work or the sterling efforts of patrolling constables.
Ricky is one the best two or three players I have seen and although his brilliant hundred wasn't his belligerent best, it was most certainly his most courageous.
Fortunately, the coaches and medical staff have been brilliant and they haven't rushed me.
His skill set is absolutely brilliant and we haven't seen enough of him.
The team who write it are brilliant so I won't be changing anything, although we may look to go monthly rather than bi-monthly.
They have done a brilliant job today and can't wait to do it all over again next year!
Stewart and her teammates wouldn't let it happen again, ending the brilliant career of Notre Dame guard Skylar Diggins.
What isn't in doubt is that he is absolutely brilliant on a motorcycle.
He was a brilliant salesman because he didn't act much like a salesman.
He summons sumptuous sounds from his battered guitar, and writes brilliant songs when he isn't fixing Hoover vacuums in his father's Dickensian shop.
We are not a brilliant fielding side, but we don't (usually) drop too many catches.
Paul Bowden-Brown (former chairman) was brilliant for this club but he didn't have the finances for this level.
"I'd be lying if I say I wasn't worried about the fans' reception but it was brilliant, " he said.
The fans weren't sure how to feel - Massa heading for a brilliant victory, but the title heading to Hamilton.
Plainly, Asia and the rest of the world could be facing a major struggle to ensure that the impoverished of Planet Earth wouldn't be written off by a group of American experts, no matter how brilliant and well-meaning they may be.
The stakes can't be much higher: Even if it never capitalizes on the ideas all those brilliant new hires generate, Google locks them away from would-be competitors.
When Suarez scored a brilliant free kick Liverpool needed one more to go through but they couldn't find the net again.
For all of OLPC's brilliant bells and whistles, the nonprofit has created a closed platform that isn't capable of using Windows programs--not to mention a constantly evolving ecosystem of Web applications.
Shooting these intermediate frames at different exposures could produce brilliant HDR photos or even video, assuming of course that camera manufacturers don't find some other way to crack the exposure code by then.
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So if you stand in the middle of it and scream really loudly when you can't have the same Doctor Who book you've borrowed for the last 18 months, you get a brilliant echo that goes on and on and on - long after the security guard has asked you to step outside.
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