<em><a href="http://mikerappaport.net/onevoice/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/800__broadcast_news_blu-ray_9_.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1006" title="800__broadcast_news_blu-ray_9_" src="http://mikerappaport.net/onevoice/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/800__broadcast_news_blu-ray_9_-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>"It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you're the smartest person in the room."</em>

<em>"No. It's awful."</em>

This exchange from "Broadcast News" had two intelligent people either making or hearing a comment in two diametrically opposite ways. Peter Hackes' television executive is being extremely sarcastic in making the remark to Holly Hunter's line producer, while Hunter -- who has pretty much always <em>been</em> the smartest person in whatever room she occupies -- answers with heartfelt sincerity.