I Was Stupid Quotes - Page 2

• In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

  Coco Chanel

  Stupid, Intelligent, Dumb

  "Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets". Book by Marcel Haedrich, p. 95, 1971.

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• Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

  Danica McKellar

  Teacher, Stupid, Home

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• I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

  Benjamin Carson

  Stupid, Agreement, Students

  "Saving America: Dr. Benjamin Carson's fight for real change". "Hannity", www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2013.

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• I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.

  Daniel Handler

  Stupid, Phrases, Officials

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2014

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• I became blinded by what I thought I needed to do. I was wrong. I was stupid. But not for one minute did I ever stop loving you. And that's why I deserve to be forgiven.

  C.C. Hunter

  Stupid, Loving You, Minutes

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• So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.

  Douglas Adams

  Stupid, Mean, Dies

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• You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stupid, Mean, Parent

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.322, Scholastic Inc.

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• My father would take you wherever you wanted to go," he told her softly. "I was pretty sure I could talk you into staying, but I underestimated how badly hurt I was." "Stupid," she said tartly. He looked up at her, and whatever he saw in her face made him smile, though his voice was serious when he answered her charge. "Yes. You throw my judgement off." -Charles and Anna when he thought she was leaving him and Changed when he was injured

  Patricia Briggs

  Hurt, Father, Stupid

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.35, Penguin

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• How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.

  Joaquin Andujar

  Baseball, Stupid, Yugoslavia

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• At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Stupid, Thinking

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• I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so I wanted to go to the hardest academic school I could to see if I was really as smart as I thought I was.

  Tucker Max

  Smart, Stupid, School

  "Uncommon Interview: Tucker Max". Interview with Jen Glickel, www.chicagomaroon.com. May 17, 2005.

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• But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Regret, Stupid

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• It's not just that I'm stupid; it's that I'm just smart enough to know how stupid I am. I wish I weren't so stupid. Or that I were stupider.

  John S. Hall

  Stupid, Smart, Wish

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

  Robert Sternberg

  Teacher, Stupid, School

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• I grew up thinking that because I couldn't read, I was stupid and would never amount to anything. I worked my way through college as a waitress and thought I wasn't capable of doing anything else. My grades in English were horrible, and I barely got through.

  Suze Orman

  Stupid, College, Thinking

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• I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, Stupid, Believe

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• I've got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossible.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Stupid, Clothes, Impossible

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• I didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me. I started totally free and crazy and innocent. Now I've seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don't do commercials, I don't do films pre-prepared by other people, I don't do star system. So I do my own little thing.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Crazy, Stupid

  Source: film.avclub.com

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