Fool Quotes - Page 19

• We fool ourselves into thinking that the spreadsheets that capture our financial projections are something different than what they are.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Thinking, Different, Financial

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I use the term "fool's gold white space" to highlight a common problem for innovation. People see a market that doesn't exist, and assume that one should exist.

  Scott D. Anthony

  White, Space, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Ronald Reagan said something really interesting about nuclear proliferation back in the 1980s. He said the problem with nuclear proliferation is some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event and I think that Donald Trump is exactly who governor Reagan warned about.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, Interesting, Events

  Source: www.politico.com

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• You have to leave all your options open. And if you don't leave your options open, you're a fool.

  Donald Trump

  Ifs

  "Donald Trump vows to strengthen cybersecurity capabilities" by Rebecca Shabad, www.cbsnews.com. October 3, 2016.

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• Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.

  Margaret Atwood

  People, Tragedy, Actors

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• The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

  Bob Dylan

  Hipster, America, Thieves

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• A sociopath can imitate emotions, where a psychopath really doesn't have that capacity. They can't fool people into thinking anything and they're usually lacking major empathy for anybody besides themselves.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Thinking, People, Empathy

  "'Jack Reacher' Villain Patrick Heusinger on Playing Opposite Tom Cruise". Interview with Harper's Bazaar, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 24, 2016.

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• I suggested a compromise to give the banks a year's time and see if they succeed in showing us that nationalization wasn't necessary. The year went by and we realized it hadn't done any good, that the money still ended up in the hands of the rich industrialists or friends of the bankers. So I concluded that it was necessary to nationalize the banks. And we did. Without considering it a socialist gesture or an antisocialist gesture, just a necessary one. Anyone who nationalizes only so as to be considered on the left to me is a fool.

  Indira Gandhi

  Hands, Years, Giving

  Source: sangam.org

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• Everything has been for the [President] election for the last couple of months. Since the Democratic National Convention, it's been a dead run to get out as much content as possible and do as much as possible. Then, I go back to writing the screenplay I was working on, which is an original piece - a period piece that I will hopefully finish a couple of months after that, and hopefully I can convince some unsuspecting fool studio to buy.

  Joss Whedon

  Running, Couple, Writing

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• The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and...kind of slogans that are...they fool the people. They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.

  Akbar Ganji

  Differences, People, Sides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I had a lot of good times. I had a lot of fun. I liked what I was doing, so I just kept doing it. At the Tape Music Center, I was working from midnight to four in the morning. Because then it was quiet, nobody was there, and I could just do my work. I didn't have to fool around.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Morning, Fun, Midnight

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with the Pharaoh, and we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a modern-day Moses trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Organization

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• People make fools out of themselves in all sorts of ways. No particular qualifications or particular criteria are necessary.

  Jackie Mason

  People, Way, Criteria

  Source: spectator.org

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• I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I'm a fool, which you've probably worked out by now.

  George Michael

  Song, Tonight, You Again

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• I thought [first girlfriend] was trying to make a fool out of me. Then I found out that she wasn't, and we went out. That's a very good example of how little confidence I had.

  George Michael

  Girlfriend, Trying, Example

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Safe, Ability

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• There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools to think that we could make radical changes in our society. Though I understand their dismay, respect their suffering and don't understand the gullibility of some people who don't take in how repressive these societies are, I still think it's important to keep people of all kinds as active in civic matters as possible.

  Susan Sontag

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.

  Susan Sontag

  Political Opinions, Might, Way

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The first time I had work in a public space it felt very strange to see people that I didn't know looking and, and presumably commenting on, my work. Nowadays, I'm a bit more fatalistic - they either like the work or they don't and there's not a lot I can do about that. The trick seems to be not to get too pissed on open nights so that I can answer any questions without making a fool of myself. Doesn't always work!

  Horace Panter

  Night, Space, People

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• You can use the tax code to make people smoke less. You can use the tax code to make 'em smoke more. You can use the tax code to make 'em buy beer or buy less beer, more booze or less booze. You can screw the tax code around to make 'em make more charitable contributions. You think they're going to get rid of this power? Ain't no way, fool.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Beer, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Maggie Smith] brings new meaning to the phrase "doesn't suffer fools." She has just the most amazing, dry timing of anyone ever, I think. I think everyone's always known about it, but with her resurgence on Downton Abbey, a whole new generation has been introduced to it, which is just great.

  Rob Lowe

  Thinking, Suffering, Generations

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Wise, Men, Foolish

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Ask questions. Listen. Be quiet. Be willing to make a fool of yourself. Be willing to be completely exposed and to give all you've got and to be rejected for your troubles. But expect magic to happen. It just might. And don't worry about winning the audition, just win the room.

  Bill Oberst Jr.

  Winning, Giving, Worry

  Source: www.chud.com

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• A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jesus, Fall

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• You saw that the other night in the debate, where some people said [Hillary Clinton] made virtually a fool of herself. This is not presidential material, believe me. What they say is false and slanderous in virtually every respect.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Night, People

  Source: time.com

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