Dumb Quotes - Page 33

• There's a portion of the movie where something bad happens to me, and I lose my clothes along the way, so essentially I'm wearing a bra and trousers. There are certain requirements, but luckily I have a good base because I work out often.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Clothes, Work Out

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• I think that women, especially women in my job, come to me because they know I'm very loving and nonjudgmental and I'm not competitive, and I've been through a lot.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Jobs, Thinking

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

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• I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Long, Stories

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• To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realise that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things.

  Ray Toro

  Reality, Being Positive, Faces

  "What the players said" by Dirk von Gehlen, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2006.

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• I am a dumb piece of meat
  and I rot everyday
  my flesh gives a rotting smell
  and people say it's the smell of life
  and they come to me
  and watch me rot
  and get happy and upset and annoyed and disgusted and maybe sometimes feel
  compassion
  but they don't realize they are rotting too.

  Daul Kim

  Compassion, Smell, People

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• The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

  Kurt Tucholsky

  Opposites, Play, Advantage

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• It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Smart, Play, Blonde

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• The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

  Ben Casnocha

  Smart, People, Internet

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• The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and hear and love and fear and suffer. They use their organs far more faithfully than many human beings use theirs. They manifest sympathy and tenderness toward their companions in suffering. Many animals show an affection for those who have charge of them, far superior to the affection shown by some of the human race. They form attachments for man which are not broken without great suffering to them.

  Ellen G. White

  Animal, Men, Race

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book III of III”, p.305, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, — and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes — each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs — quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words.

  Laurence Sterne

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

  Laurence Sterne, James P. Browne (1873). “The Works of Lawrence Sterne: In Four Volumes, with a Life of the Author, Written by Himself”, p.333

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• I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

  Richard Griffiths

  Childhood, Parent, Speech

  "Richard Griffiths: 'I've always hated the way I look'" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2005.

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• I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.

  Ryan Cabrera

  Always Trying, People, Possibility

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• The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Beautiful, Strong, Women

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative obliterating snow. Smoothing (in one white lacy euphemism after another) out all the black bleak angular unangelic nauseous ugliness of the blasted sterile world: dry buds, shrunken stone houses, dead vertical moving people all all all go under the great white beguiling wave. And come out transformed. Lose yourself in a numb dumb snow-daubed lattice of crystal and come out pure with the white virginal veneer you never had.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moving, Weather, White

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.73, Anchor

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• The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

  Adam C. Engst

  Horse, War, Middle Management

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• If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.

  Andy Rooney

  Hurt, Ideas, People

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• All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Country, Ministry, World

  E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.71, Random House

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• O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Literature

  Sonnet 23

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• Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.

  William Feather

  Reason, Enough

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Change, Practice, Age

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Two, Heaven

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• Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

  Jean Racine

  Love, Heart, Way

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• How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Men, Levels

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• Rules for a White House Spokesman: No. 1 is always tell the truth. I've got only one currency, that's the truth. There are 10,000 ways to say "no comment," and I've used 9,999 of them. The second rule is don't be afraid to say, "I don't know." You may look dumb, but if you don't know you can't give them hot air because it always shows on your face.

  Larry Speakes

  White, Air, Giving

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• I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.

  Russell Lynes

  Sarcastic, Wise, Insults You

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