Fooled Quotes - Page 6

• If you think that UFOs will come and save you, don't be fooled. The Nazis invented UFOs.

  Eric Burdon

  Thinking, Nazi, Ufo

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• Sometimes I can't tell that someone is a selective asshole because they're so nice to me and the people around me that I don't realize it until someone else says, "You know, that person is an asshole." So I'll be fooled by selective assholes sometimes . . . lately.

  Emma Stone

  Nice, People, Sometimes

  Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2012.

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• The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, All Time

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.69, North Atlantic Books

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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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• Now is the time... if you want to make a difference in the world, now is the time. Don't be fooled into thinking you should wait until you are older or wiser or more secure because it doesn't work that way. The wisdom will come. The security will come. But first you must begin.

  Ron Atchison

  Motivational, Thinking, Differences

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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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• Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Envy, Disease, Green

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• If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about that. Rather it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images - the emotional quality - of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself - my dreaming life - still lives in the light of childhood.

  Maurice Sendak

  Dream, Emotional, Light

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• I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Teacher, Blessed, Piano

  "Eddie Van Halen reinvents the guitar". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2009.

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• You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Deception, Trying, Fool

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• I would rather be fooled than not believe.

  Mark Nepo

  Believe

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.20, Conari Press

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• Late February, and the air's so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard will come, blighting our harbingers of spring, and the numbed yards will go back undercover. In Florida, it's strawberry season- shortcake, waffles, berries and cream will be penciled on the coffeeshop menus.

  Gail Mazur

  Spring, Florida, Air

  Gail Mazur (1995). “The Common”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Investing, Return, Portfolios

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• Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Experts, Slavery, Fancy

  "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by Buckminster Fuller, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1968.

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• While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don't be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you're set.

  Barton Seaver

  Thinking, Fire, Order

  "Sustainable Grilling With Barton Seaver". Interview with Esther Sung, www.epicurious.com. May 21, 2013.

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• 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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• Audiences are not easily fooled, but they are easily confused.

  Darwin Ortiz

  Confused, Audience

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• Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Communism

  "The Africans" by David Lamb, (p. 61), 1982.

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• Time in the heart and sequence in the brain--
  
  Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine.
  And let us then take godhead by the neck--
  And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.

  Conrad Aiken

  Time, Heart, Brain

  Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

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• The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Principles, Way, Fool

  Richard P Feynman (2014). “Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton”, p.343, Random House

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• It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't-I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere-but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on.

  David Sedaris

  Depressing, Writing, Thinking

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• For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

  Ricky Jay

  Lovely, Magic, Would Be

  "Seven Lies About Lying". Interview with Errol Morris, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2009.

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• I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.

  Burleigh Grimes

  May

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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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• I fooled around and fell in love.

  Elvin Bishop

  Infidelity, Adultery

  Song: Fooled Around and Fell in Love

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