Idiot Quotes - Page 39

• I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.

  Rashida Jones

  Doe, Would Be, Comedy

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• The most important thing, of course, is that you should look more stunning than you have ever looked in your life. How many excuses do you have to wear a dress bigger than anyone else's, at a party just for you, where everyone has to burst into tears from how gorgeous you look while you prance around in front of them? Remember, your lifelong happiness depends on this one article of clothing. If it doesn't look good, you're not a bride. You're just some idiot in a big white thing - a color unflattering to about 93 percent of the population.

  Mimi Pond

  Party, Color, White

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• In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.

  George Grosz

  Art, Historical, Age

  George Grosz, Heartfield, Wieland Herzfelde (1987). “Art Is in Danger”

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• Where's my tax form? Where's the file that's supposed to hold my W-2 form and interest statement? Where's the mileage log I specifically asked be kept last year?? Where's the monthly check summary? And who's been stuffing Visa receipts in the aluminum foil drawer??!! How embarrassing. I'm surrounded by idiots and I'm the only one in the office.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Years, Office, Aluminum Foil

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• There was no such thing as luck.  Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity.  More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Stupidity, Luck, Selfishness

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two”, p.361, Hachette UK

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• Women are more in touch with their feelings, they're more emotionally developed, they know what's important in life, and the men run around like idiots trying to figure that out until they meet a woman that can show them what's important.

  Rob Reiner

  Running, Men, Feelings

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There is nothing that impairs a man's sexual performance quicker than any suggestion that he's not doing it right ('Not there, you idiot!').

  Helen Lawrenson

  Sex, Men, Suggestions

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• For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.

  Matt Damon

  Talking, Sound, Actors

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• I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.

  Michael Cera

  Wall, Character, Sleep

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• I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

  Alec Baldwin

  Wind, Language, Speak

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• America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot.

  Eric Stonestreet

  America, Speech, Able

  "Golden Globes 2012: 'Modern Family' Stars Criticize Anti-Gay Protesters, Defend Show" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 15, 2012.

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• Yet, for I know thou art religious
  And hast a thing within thee called conscience,
  With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies
  Which I have seen thee careful to observe,
  Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know
  An idiot holds his bauble for a god
  And keeps the oath which by that god he swears,
  To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow
  By that same god, what god soe'er it be,
  That thou adorest and hast in reverence,
  To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up,
  Or else I will discover naught to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Religious, Art, Boys

  William Shakespeare (1824). “The Dramatic Works, Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens and Isaac Reed”, p.697

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• I've never really taken myself seriously as an actor, It is surprising the amount of people who think I'm going to be really dumb. I think they think anyone who has done teen movies is just an idiot. I don't know, maybe I am. Some of the best actors, if you talk to them, they're not the smartest people in the world.

  Robert Pattinson

  Taken, Thinking, People

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• I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part of causing us to stop helping the South Vietnamese. Now look what's happening. They're getting killed by the millions. Murdered by the millions. How the hell can she and her husband sleep at night?

  John Wayne

  Husband, Sleep, Night

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• A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

  Milos Zeman

  Wings, Dangerous, Right Wing

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• God preserve me from idiots and men in love, which is the same thing.

  M. V. Heberden

  Men, Preserves

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• Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

  Mark Twain

  Politics, Imagine, Congressman

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• One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet so futile. There is no villain, no idiot, no saint. There are just men; men who crave ease and power, men who know want and hunger, men who have crawled. They all dream and strive with ecstasy of fear and strain of effort, balked of hope and hate. Yet the rich world is wide enough for all, wants all, needs all. So slight a gesture, a word, might set the strife in order, not with full content, but with growing dawn of fulfillment. Instead roars the crash of hell.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dream, Hate, Simple

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2013). “Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880”, p.650, Transaction Publishers

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• Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Unfortunate, Knows

  Walter Dean Myers (2013). “Darius & Twig”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Flower, Cups, April

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.148, eBookIt.com

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• Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

  Thomas Sowell

  Tragedy, Village Idiots, Genius

  "Roberts betrayed his oath". The St. Augustine Record, July 5, 2012.

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• People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mistake, People, Soul

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• A lot of people voting for Pat Buchanan say they are doing so to send a message. Apparently that message is, 'Hey, look at me, I'm an idiot.'

  Dennis Miller

  People, Voting, Looks

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• There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women.

  Nora Roberts

  Men, Thinking, Stubborn

  Nora Roberts (2001). “Dance Upon the Air”, p.256, Penguin

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• I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

  Helen Garner

  Dream, Writing, Self

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