Fooled Quotes - Page 6

• Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough to think that they always observe with rigorous and objective scrutiny, and therefore could never be so fooled while ordinary mortals know perfectly well that good performers can always find a way to trick people.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Psychics, People

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don't be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones.

  John French Sloan

  Character, Kids, Thinking

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• The fact that a trick fooled you is not enough reason to perform it.

  Darwin Ortiz

  Facts, Reason, Enough

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• When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college." Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  College, Games, Circles

  "The Leaping Legends of Basketball" by Scott Ostler, The Los Angeles Times, February 12, 1989.

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• "What is normal?" really becomes the question. What is normal, and how are we fooled into thinking it's something other than what we're doing at any given time. Every family has either a drug addict or an alcoholic or some sort of dysfunction that the family is dealing with. And I think the grace of this family is that they actually could be that far out there but also be forgiving, and be really human, and be human in front of each other without much shame.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Thinking, Dysfunction, Drug

  "Mark Ruffalo and Maya Forbes on How YouTube and Wes Anderson Helped Shape Infinitely Polar Bear". Interview with Richard Lawson, www.vanityfair.com. June 19, 2015.

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• Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is "continuous", and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer.

  Doron Zeilberger

  Real, Evil, Intuition

  ""Real" Analysis is a Degenerate Case of Discrete Analysis". Ruthgers School of Arts and Sciences Website, sites.math.rutgers.edu. November 26, 2001.

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• The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.

  Joan Robinson

  Study, Economics, Economist

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• Even Arnold's adviser says he was shocked by his decision to run. I mean, his people were backstage that night and they had no idea. He totally fooled them. Who knew Arnold was that good of an actor? If he had done that in a movie, he'd have an Academy Award by now.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Mean, Night

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• It could seem like you are losing something right now, but do not be fooled. This is simply a turnaround orchestrated by your soul. Let it go. Release it. If it was not supposed to be removing itself from you now, it would not be doing so.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Soul, Let It Go, Losing

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Aug 05, 2013

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• We won't get fooled again!

  Pete Townshend

  Activism

  "Song: "Won't Get Fooled Again"". June 25, 1971.

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• In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!

  Matthew Perry

  School, Night, Guy

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• Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but dont be fooled, hes as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. Hes an unbelievably kind man with a great family.

  Rachael Harris

  Real, Book, Kids

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• Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop defense mechanisms, such as media-savvy attitudes or ironic dispositions. Then marketers research these defenses, develop new countermeasures, and on it goes.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Children, Attitude, Media

  Douglas Rushkoff (2006). “ScreenAgers: Lessons in Chaos from Digital Kids”, Hampton Press (NJ)

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• Everything that I spent my entire life dedicated to, which is this art of mentalism, of magic... I don't see it and feel it and experience it like I first did when I was getting involved in this art. I try to look at it as a spectator but unless I get amnesia I still can't overlook that. I can appreciate the performance but I would love to be fooled.

  Criss Angel

  Art, Appreciate, Magic

  "Criss Angel Creates Phenomenon!". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 14, 2007.

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• Who's the bigger idiot, the idiot or the idiot who gets fooled by the idiot?

  Woody Allen

  Idiot, Bigger

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• The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Book, Positive Thinking, Self

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Tragedy, March, Surprise

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  First Impression, Want, Firsts

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• You have got to convince people, the Drive-By Media, the mainstream media, is never going to support us, and if you continue to define political success as the media supporting us and not supporting a Democrat, you're never gonna be happy, because that's never going to happen. And if that remains your measure of success, then you're gonna get fooled each and every time.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, People, Support

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think that the development of any culture has something to do with the way people deal with the concept of illusion. The fact that the sound of my voice and the way I modulate it creates pictures in your head... in order for us to accumulate knowledge, we have to create symbolic exchanges that let ourselves be fooled temporarily by something that's not there - by a substitute for reality. When you talk about representation, you're talking about language.

  Vik Muniz

  Reality, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to operate on the other level, the other end of the illusion spectrum. I want to create the worst possible illusions so it doesn't really fool people, but instead give people a measure of their own belief. It makes them aware of how much they need to be fooled in order to understand the world around them.

  Vik Muniz

  Reality, Order, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People are fooled by the colour of my skin. I grew up on the north side of Fredericton in a Celtic culture with an Acadian choir. Don't let the black fool you. I'm actually quite white. When people give me permission to do anything, I simply say, "I would have taken it anyway, but I appreciate you thinking I care what you think." I don't do it with a sense of belligerence. I really do mean well.

  Measha Brueggergosman

  Taken, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• One of the reasons I don't like to use the word "tricks" , I do think of them as theatrical pieces, and as pretentious as that might sound, there's a real reason for it. It's not the idea of tricking you; it's the idea of taking you along on this particular journey the way you would in any other theatrical situation. But, hopefully, you're going to be fooled at the end.

  Ricky Jay

  Real, Journey, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

  Bill Cosby

  Education, America, United States

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

  Ricky Jay

  People, Fool

  Source: www.avclub.com

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