“If I'm smart then I'll run away, but I'm not so I guess I'll stay”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
Source: Madonna: Greatest Hits: Piano - Vocal - Chords
Variant: It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
“If I'm smart then I'll run away, but I'm not so I guess I'll stay”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
Source: Madonna: Greatest Hits: Piano - Vocal - Chords
“I'm sure Kermit will stay young a lot longer than I will.”
Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer
Interview with Associated Press (1986)
“I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.”
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
Source: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
“If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed.”
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II
Said to a group of British students in China in 1986, as quoted in "Long line of princely gaffes", BBC News (1 March 2002)
1980s
“There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.”
George Jones (1931–2013) American musician, singer and songwriter
Source: I Lived to Tell It All (1996, ebook 2014), Page 148.
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Interview "Milton Friedman Responds" in Chemtech (February 1974) p. 72.
“Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?”
Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor
"Berzerk"
2010s, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013)