Idiot Quotes - Page 36

• The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

  Steven Heighton

  Sides, Willingness

  Steven Heighton (2010). “Afterlands”, p.322, Vintage Canada

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• I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are only able to create because they suffer immensely in their own lives. What a bunch of bullshit. Look at Van Gogh's paintings: there's as much joy in them as there is pain. Suffering is only a single color, and by itself it's boring.

  Bart Yates

  Art, Pain, Color

  Bart Yates (2004). “Leave Myself Behind”, p.203, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.

  Matt Rees

  Love Is, Choices, Want

  Matt Rees (2013). “The Award-winning Omar Yussef Mysteries: The Bethlehem Murders, The Saladin Murders and The Samaritan's Secret”, p.70, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.

  Jean Giono

  Sea, Desert, Levels

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• Our band will never change , we will always be 5 singing idiots .

  Niall Horan

  Singing, Band, Never Change

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• All magic is 'Here’s a quarter, now it’s gone. You’re a jerk. Now it’s back. You’re an idiot. Show’s over.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Magic, Gone, Jerk

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• The Complete Idiots Guide to Eating Raw is ideal for anyone looking to seamlessly adopt eating habits that will benefit overall health and boost athletic performance.

  Brendan Brazier

  Athletic, Benefits, Eating

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• Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.

  Alfred Capus

  Triumph, World, Lost

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• She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse.

  Nuruddin Farah

  Track, Different, Opinion

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• We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.

  Wasif Ali Wasif

  Wish, Becoming, Ends

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• Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they've ‘exercised.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Pride, Watches, Facts

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• I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Squat, Minutes, Teach

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• A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have.

  Susan Jane Gilman

  Girl, Order, Guy

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• Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is how we know we're in one. When all the words in our public conversation are fair, good, and true, it's time to make a run for the fence.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Running, Rude, Ignorant

  "What Is Your Dangerous Idea?". Book by John Brockman (p. 43), 2007.

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• The idiot was not a lot of thinking, which is an important move on. Smart people mostly think, consequently never stepped

  Bob Sadino

  Smart, Moving, Thinking

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• Everyone's brain works in a different way. I didn't feel smart in school; I just didn't get it. I thought I was an idiot. Until I got out.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Smart, School, Brain

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• Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Many Buddhist teachers have described compassion as the ability to react freely and accurately in any situation. Being nice or feeling sorry for someone may be called for, but so may being fierce and unyielding. When sweetness is applied indiscriminately, it is seen as 'idiot compassion.'

  Issan Dorsey

  Teacher, Buddhist, Sorry

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• The truth is that I'm an idiot. I am. I don't do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn't say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Fun, Buttons, Sometimes

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• After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Years, Television, Aliens

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.242, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.

  Mary Roach

  Imbeciles, England, Twenties

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.56, Canongate Books

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• Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Country, Dumb, Folks

  "15 Powerful Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Quotes To Make You Want To Read 'Between The World And Me'" by Aaron Barksdale, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2015.

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• Josh [Gad] does such an amazing job playing a lovable idiot. Not many people can do that, as convincingly as he can.

  Josh Gad

  Jobs, People, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• In real life, Josh [Gad] is a different kind of lovable idiot. In real life, he's a much filthier idiot. He has a dirty sense of humor.

  Josh Gad

  Real, Dirty, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I fell in love. It was a great thing to be in love. I was a complete idiot in love.

  Kid Rock

  Great Things

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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