Dumb Quotes - Page 32

• All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

  Thomas Sowell

  Truth, Smart, Knowledge

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.318, Hoover Press

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• Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word that includes more than what people consider is encompassed by classification. It is more than that, and it's something which can be called phenomenology.

  William Wilson Morgan

  Science, People, Looks

  Interview with David DeVorkin, www.aip.org. August 8, 1978.

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• To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Joy, Add, World

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII”

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• I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

  Amy Bloom

  Perseverance, Team, Winning

  Amy Bloom (2010). “Where The God Of Love Hangs Out”, p.55, Granta Books

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• Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

  Margot Asquith

  Stupid, Math, Piano

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• Dumb animals we call them, while they bark and neigh and moo. They talk as much as we do - to them we seem dumb too.

  Rebecca McCann

  Animal, Cows, Bark

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• Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

  Barry Diller

  Feet, Progression, Courses

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• I may not be smart enough to do everything, but I am dumb enough to try anything.

  Geoff Johns

  Smart, Trying, May

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• Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Roman Numerals, Numbers

  "A Man Without a Country". Essay collection by Kurt Vonnegut, September 15, 2005.

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• Tell a child, a husband or an employee that he is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that he has no gift for it, and that he is doing it all wrong and you have destroyed almost every incentive to try to improve. But use the opposite technique, be liberal with encouragement; make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair for it - and he will practice until the dawn comes in at the window in order to excel.

  Dale Carnegie

  Encouragement, Children, Husband

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• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb you're not even going to know.

  Kate Upton

  Children, Thinking, People

  "Hello Sexy! Kate Upton on Becoming This Generation's Bombshell" by Jessica Pressler, www.elle.com. August 8, 2013.

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• Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.

  Gerard Way

  People, Want, Down And

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• Lay low, play dumb, keep moving.

  Roger Stone

  Moving, Play, Lows

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• When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Smart, Answers

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• You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines, and use them routinely - all of them, not just a few. Most people are trained in one model - economics, for example - and try to solve all problems in one way. You know the old saying: to the man with a hammer, the world looks like a nail. This is a dumb way of handling problems.

  Charlie Munger

  Men, Ideas, Discipline

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• Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there is a lot of noise, but if you close your eyes and picture yourself in an open field or a quiet forest, you can maybe make it to the end without killing yourself

  Jon Lajoie

  Eye, Fake, Life Is Like

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• The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous.

  Norm Coleman

  Jobs, Way, Dangerous

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• I don't want to be rich and I don't want to be famous.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Want, Ridiculous

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• I'm just a normal mother with the same struggles as any other mother who's trying to do everything at once and trying to be a wife and maintain a relationship. There's absolutely nothing perfect about my life, but I just try hard.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Mother, Struggle

  "Gwyneth Paltrow cooks up book, record deals" by Arienne Thompson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 13, 2011.

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• Some days I feel like everyone in my world has plugged themselves into my kidneys. I'm so tired.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Tired, World

  "Gwyneth Paltrow: Myth vs. Reality" by Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 9, 2010.

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• One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Years, Cooking

  Gwyneth Paltrow (2011). “Notes from my Kitchen Table: Enhanced Ebook Edition”, p.226, Pan Macmillan

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• [Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Uncles, Hip Hop

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• I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Spain, Fifteen

  Gwyneth Paltrow (2011). “My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• My one light American Spirit that I smoke once a week, on Saturday night.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Night, Light

  "Gwyneth Unveiled" by Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the brutal practices of American factory farms. That, coupled with a lecture from Leonardo DiCaprio (when he was nineteen and I was twenty-one) about how such animals are kept and processed, made me lose my desire for factory farm pork and beef right there.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Book, Animal

  Gwyneth Paltrow (2011). “My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness”, p.22, Hachette UK

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