Being Stupid Quotes - Page 2

• But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.

  Jennifer Echols

  Stupid, Would Be, Bars

  Jennifer Echols (2012). “Forget You”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• So, thanks,” Vivian said. “For what?” I looked up at her, confused. “For being stupid enough to love your crazy, murdering lunatic of a sister and being such a pathetic dork that I couldn’t help but love you, too

  Kiersten White

  Confused, Crazy, Stupid

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• I didn't get to be this smart by not being stupid

  Allison Mackie

  Smart, Stupid

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• Time flies when you’re being stupid.

  David Henry Hwang

  Stupid, Time Flies

  David Henry Hwang (1988). “M. Butterfly”, p.9, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Baseball is a sport where being stupid and keeping things really simple a lot of times is the right way to do things. There are very few guys that are capable of processing a lot of information and applying it and still being good at it. … I don't want to name names, but there were guys I played with that were so stupid that they're really good, because their mind never gets in the way.

  Zack Greinke

  Sports, Baseball, Stupid

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• Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

  Mel Brooks

  Smart, Stupid, Just Being

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• Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into

  Kate Hudson

  Stupid

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• For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.

  Christian Louboutin

  Stupid, Men, High Heels

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• If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

  George Sand

  Stupid, People, Mind

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.114, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won't, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Stupid, People, Dull

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• If being stupid is the only way for an intelligent man to be happy, then let us hope that unhappiness be his choice!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Men, Intelligent

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• You want to be as smart as you can about being stupid.

  Mel Brooks

  Smart, Stupid, Want

  "Q&A with Mel Brooks". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, beta.latimes.com. May 19, 2008.

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• Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Stupid, Giving, Racist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can be stupid once, but idiotic to do it again. I'll settle for being stupid.

  Tony La Russa

  Stupid, Settling, Idiotic

  "Top of the sixth" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. December 29, 1997.

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• People were paid lots of money to make stupid decisions, people in big banks, and when people are paid to be stupid they'll be stupid. The question was, did they know they were being stupid or were they just stupid? I think you need to take it on a case by case basis. There was some sinister activity, but I think by and by it was people being incentivised to do the wrong thing.

  Michael Lewis

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  "The Big Short: author Michael Lewis on 'betting on Armageddon' during the global financial crisis; making of star-studded new film". Interview with Hayden Cooper, www.abc.net.au. January 14, 2016.

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• People think I'm being stupid or false humble. It's not. I don't think I always fit in. Maybe it's a complex you get as someone who has always been fighting on the outside.

  Jeremy Scott

  Stupid, Humble, Fighting

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I came to realize,people who had Chinese accents will continue to have Chinese accents in America are treated as being stupid or not as intelligent as an English speaker who is fluent with an American accent - I came to realize why. But it's always fascinated me how quickly you can change where you stand with another human being just based on how you speak.

  Trevor Noah

  Stupid, Intelligent, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Be straight with yourself just to maybe save a few more people from being stupid and being ignorant.

  George Harrison

  Stupid, People, Ignorant

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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• The friendship that you create between you and a mom - or you and an older woman figure - is so important and so influential. I think that my relationship with my sister, my relationship with my best friends - when I'm feeling really terrible about myself, they're always there to let me know that I am being dramatic about something, or I'm being stupid about something - it's good to have those kinds of people to drag you back down and protect you.

  Rowan Blanchard

  Mom, Stupid, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.

  Douglas Adams

  Stupid, Differences, Computer

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• A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay.

  Benjamin Carson

  Crazy, Stupid, Gay

  "Ben Carson apologizes for comments on gay people" by Eric Bradner and Alexandra Jaffe, edition.cnn.com. March 5, 2015.

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• Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Smart, Stupid, Together

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• This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.

  Michelle Sagara

  Smart, Stupid

  Michelle Sagara (2009). “Chronicles of Elantra bundle: Cast in Shadow\Cast in Courtlight\Cast in Secret”, p.685, LUNA

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• Sometimes I feel like a complete kid when I'm running around with my friends being stupid for a week, and then sometimes I just want to sit in my house and sip tea and watch old movies like I'm 60.

  Kendall Jenner

  Running, Stupid, Kids

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