Idiot Quotes - Page 18

• I had to learn how to drive a cement truck because there is a whole car chase with cement trucks, so I had to learn how to drive a cement truck. I don't like these things, but I'm not an idiot. I can do it.

  Christoph Waltz

  Car, Truck, Cement

  Source: collider.com

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• Day 1 -- Still tired from the move. Day 2 -- Everybody talks to me like I'm an idiot.

  Steven Wright

  Moving, Tired, Talk To Me

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• It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.

  John Simon

  Wonderful, Hated

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• Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.

  Chris Lowe

  Men, Invention, Worst

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• No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

  Scott Adams

  Smart, Humor, Matter

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• People are idiots. Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with the low SAT scores. The only difference is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

  Scott Adams

  Smart, Differences, People

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

  Edward Young

  Disease, Vain, Polite

  Edward Young, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edward Young: In Four Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.107

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• In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.

  John Locke

  Lying, Ideas, Differences

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.100

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• These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly what I'm hoping. It would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print.

  Scott Adams

  Real, Book, Trends

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

  Arthur Young

  Class, Poor, Knows

  "The Affordable Care Act Will Raise Wages" by Mary Manning Cleveland, www.huffingtonpost.com. Febriary 10, 2014.

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• Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.

  Scott Adams

  Wisdom, Flow, Way

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• What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?

  Ben Folds

  Kings, Stupid, Work Out

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• When you're in morgue you're seeing life that no longer exists. It gives you an appreciation when you look someone in the eye, you shake their hand, and you hug your friends, your girlfriend, your family. It just gives you an appreciation for the life that surrounds you. At the same time you understand how fragile it is. That you don't need to be an idiot or get so angry at times.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Appreciation, Girlfriend, Eye

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I set myself that decision, otherwise I'm driving an opinion at you, and I think that would be treating you like you're an idiot. I don't want to force-feed you my opinion.

  Tom Hardy

  Thinking, Decision, Would Be

  "Bronson - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

  Mike Patton

  Thinking, Playing Music, Fantasy

  Interview with Gus Mastrapa, music.avclub.com. July 17, 2008.

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• It's a lonely world, being independent, and they can come away with the idea that if Lloyd Kaufman can make movies with people getting their heads squashed, with hard-bodied lesbians, women masturbating with pickles, graphic diarrhea, and singing and dancing chicken zombies - if he can do that for 40 years and put his kids through Yale, Columbia, and Duke - if that idiot can do it, anybody can do it.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Lonely, Kids, Independent

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• One of the most important things, especially when you're leaving school, is to realize you're going to be dealing with a lot of idiots. And a lot of those idiots are in charge of things, so if you're in an interview and you really want to tell the person off, don't do it.

  Lewis Black

  School, Leaving, Important

  "Lewis Black's Life Advice for Millennials" by Gwynne Watkins, www.gq.com. August 22, 2013.

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• Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.

  Chuck Close

  Artist, Vegas, Concerned

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• Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Wake Up, Made

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• every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Merry Christmas, History

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.5

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• Any idiot can put up a website.

  Patricia Briggs

  Website

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.376, Penguin

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• People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  "The Revenge of the Baby-Sat". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1991.

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• Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

  Spider Robinson

  Thinking, Littles, Imbeciles

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• Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter -- their first and last encounter -- with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude?

  Umberto Eco

  Couple, Encounters, Damnation

  "Foucault's Pendulum". Book by Umberto Eco, 2007.

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• I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.

  Sherman Alexie

  Sky, Telescopes, Study

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.68, Random House

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