Fooled Quotes - Page 9

• Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included.

  Bernice L. McFadden

  Sweet, Cutting, Color

  Bernice L. McFadden (2001). “Sugar: A Novel”, p.39, Penguin

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• I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.

  Ned Vizzini

  Thinking, Important, World

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• Fire and water do not mix, neither can you mix judgment of others with the desire to repent. If a man commits a sin before you at the very moment of his death, pass no judgment, because the judgment of God is hidden from men. It has happened that men have sinned greatly in the open but have done greater deeds in secret, so that those who would disparage them have been fooled, with smoke instead of sunlight in their eyes.

  John Climacus

  Christian, Eye, Men

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• It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

  Heath Ledger

  Thinking, Self, Doubt

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• The truth is that many powerful guys have fooled around while working for the people. Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Warren Harding to name just a few. Grover Cleveland even fathered a child outside of marriage. We all know these things happen. But we don't want them to happen - at least most of us don't. I can't speak for San Francisco.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Powerful, Names

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• I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Death, Reading, Health

  Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

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• Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

  Douglas Adams

  Thinking, Doe, Logic

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.649, Pan Macmillan

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• Don't be fooled by your own wisdom

  Witold Gombrowicz

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• I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.

  Duke Ellington

  Dog, Creativity, Ice Cream

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• But 40 told me to do me and don't listen to anybody that knew me. Cause to have known me would mean that there's a new me and if you think I've changed, then the slightest could have fooled me.

  Drake

  Change, Humble, Mean

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• Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fitness, Workout, Clothes

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• What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can't attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn't so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Writing, Play, Interesting

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• Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Choices, Novelty, Possibility

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.24, CUA Press

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• The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!

  Walter Winchell

  Marriage, Sex, Thinking

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• Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing what such a thing ought to look like. But then I always have the hope that, if I persevere, it might one day happen. And this hope is nurtured every time something appears, a scattered, partial, initial hint of something which reminds me of what I long for, or which conveys a hint of it – although often enough I have been fooled by a momentary glimpse that then vanishes, leaving behind only the usual thing.

  Gerhard Richter

  Knowing, Long, Leaving

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you must go to war for this or that reason -that history is a protective armor against being misled.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Lying, Government

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• Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.

  Umar

  Looks, Speech, Recitation

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• I was so raw I didn't know about the Lambeau Leap-a Packer player celebrates catching a touchdown by leaping into the stands. It was started by Leroy Butler years before and has been copied by players all over the league. Don't be fooled, though. The only legitimate Lambeau Leap is celebrated by a Packer at Lambeau Field.

  Donald Driver

  Player, Years, League

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• On-stage, I definitely want to use my real self because I'm singing to people who believe in what I'm singing, and I believe in what I'm singing, but they shouldn't be fooled because we all have fake selves and it's in there somewhere. It's not pretending to hurt somebody; it's just something that comes out of me, from my experience.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Hurt, Real, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don’t be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn’t turn Iran into a friend of America.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Isis, Iran, America

  Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of the US Congress, time.com. March 3, 2015.

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• The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.

  Dick Costolo

  Thinking, People, May

  "3 Key Leadership Tips From Twitter CEO Dick Costolo". TechCrunch's Disrupt, mashable.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Let nobody be fooled, the next two quarters are not going to be easy either in terms of growth or employment.

  Luis de Guindos

  Two, Growth, Employment

  "Spain faces more pain before economy recovers, warns minister" by Jill Treanor, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2011.

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• Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.

  Abdul-Qadir Gilani

  Taken, Islamic, Would Be

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• Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never be fooled. It's not as cynical as it sounds; it's just that people always say something for a reason-maybe a nice reason, maybe a devious reason-so on that level, you can't take things at face value.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Nice, Believe, People

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• I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and Renaissance architecture and to hold a tube of Alizarin Madder Lake in my artist's hand and marvel at the shiny goop inside.

  Mark Kostabi

  Real, Artist, Lakes

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