Fool Quotes - Page 21

• Anyone who knows my professional history has known I've gone through a gazillion managers and agents or whatever. I'm like, "This doesn't feel right - moving on." I don't really suffer fools, which makes it easier for me.

  June Diane Raphael

  Moving, Suffering, Gone

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• I have written some stories about weakness. I believe that punishment for a weak man is doubled. So when I feel upset, I always try to fool myself and say to myself, I have to be patient because I have a goal to reach.

  Osama Alomar

  Believe, Men, Goal

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I like being fooled. When I watch someone who does sleight-of-hand and fools me, it's a great feeling.

  Ricky Jay

  Feelings, Fool Me, Fooled

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• Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. Only stupid people or fools would think it was bad.

  Michael McFaul

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All of this unrest and all the riots and all the protests, really the anger is at all of you who voted for Donald Trump and voted for Republicans. That's really the nub of it. They're angry at Trump, but Trump wouldn't be there if it weren't for you. They are angry. They feel rejected. The American people, and I've already told you how they think of Trump voters. They think Trump voters are uneducated, Deliverance types. You're fools, you're idiots, you're uneducated, you're unsophisticated, you're just an embarrassment, you're an American embarrassment.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Deliverance

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In our show, we try to think about consequences, not about tricking the audience or hiding things to fool the audience.

  Peter Gould

  Thinking, Trying, Hiding

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I love things that are brave enough to be nakedly about what our lives are actually built of, when you're wild about someone, or you love something, or you're a fool, or you embarrass yourself. And I don't think the answer is cynicism. Cynicism is not the cure for sentimentality. Cynicism is its own form of sentimentality. For example, I tried to watch Breaking Bad. After three episodes, I thought, I don't like this guy. I don't care about him. But you can see why people tell themselves that they think this is real. But real doesn't mean bad.

  Daniel Mendelsohn

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.

  Ricky Jay

  People, Fooled

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• The narrators get into trouble and make fools of themselves with their perversely impulsive fondlings of the language. These people have retreated from the world, in which they keep falling short, and into language, where they fall even shorter. The narrators aggrandize their every plaint and lurid insight into verbal formations that betray their fatuity as speakers and even as hosts of their own bodies and souls.

  Gary Lutz

  Fall, People, Soul

  Source: therumpus.net

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• "OK, well everyone makes a mistake, right?" But then when you think it probably happened again that's when you think: "Shame on you once and shame on me twice, or however that saying goes." But everyone's been down that road. It's not about the little things anymore, but the major things that tell you if you don't move on at that point then I'm a fool.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Mistake, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Folks, Russia is perhaps the second most powerful nuclear country in the world. If you don't have dialogue, you have to be fools.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Powerful, World

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I think [Phil Wood] didn't suffer fools gladly, but he loved supporting young people that loved the music.

  Jon Gordon

  Thinking, People, Suffering

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• Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Stuff, Blogging, Online

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

  Aesop

  Honesty, People

  Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

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• When I make a fool out of myself or when I don't take myself seriously, I'm in a comfortable spot where I don't need to be reasonable. There's no reason to be reasonable. This is what I want to do and where I have full control. I determine what I want to do.

  Nils Frahm

  Reason, Determine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them. It's not just about admiration for their films, it's how they deal with you, and whether they get you or the way you work. If they don't, you better adjust your way of working to suit them. I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate. As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.

  Willem Dafoe

  Character, People, Giving

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I see these other actors come up with this tough-guy personas and now when they're on talk shows they're all... But that's not really the way they are. I probably could have used a little bit of that. At one point I was labeled "The King Of Dumb White Guys." I was offended by that when I was younger, but I understand what that's from, so I was like, "Only a genius can play a fool." But I'm very aware of that, and I'll play into it and use it however I need to use it.

  Michael Rapaport

  Guy, Dumb, Genius

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The personal computer was a disruptive innovation relative to the mainframe because it enabled even a poor fool like me to have a computer and use it, and it was enabled by the development of the micro processor. The micro processor made it so simple to design and build a computer that IB could throw in together in a garage. And so, you have that simplifying technology as a part of every disruptive innovation. It then becomes an innovation when the technology is embedded in a different business model that can take the simplified solution to the market in a cost-effective way.

  Clayton Christensen

  Technology, Simple, Design

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Fake friends are around when they think you're cool. True friends are around even when they think you're fool.

  Unknown

  True Friend, Thinking, Fake

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• As to the "traditional filler of twenty-first century realist fiction," maybe that is something I avoid. I don't relate to standard psychologizing in novels. I don't really believe that the backstory is the story you need. And I don't believe it's more like life to get it - the buildup of "character" through psychological and family history, the whole idea of "knowing what the character wants." People in real life so often do not know what they want. People trick themselves, lie to themselves, fool themselves. It's called survival, and self-mythology.

  Rachel Kushner

  Real, Lying, Believe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• With all of the failed 'experts' weighing in, does anybody really believe that talks and dialogue would be going on between North and South Korea right now if I wasn't firm, strong and willing to commit our total 'might' against the North. Fools, but talks are a good thing!

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Believe, Good Things

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• You either decide to take the easy way out, which means you're only going to disappoint yourself and everybody else, or you take the risk right now of being a fool, which is the only way you'll end up being exhilarated later on when you actually watch the movie.

  Christian Bale

  Mean, Risk, Easy

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• I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there. So I intentionally don't get involved with arranging stuff or fussing over the sounds and the edits and the beats too much, at least not in the beginning, because I feel like then you can fool yourself that you've got something there, when you might not.

  David Byrne

  Song, Rhythm, Get Involved

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• Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Freedom, Fighting

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.458, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Bigger

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.60, Random House

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