Not Stupid Quotes - Page 5

• I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.

  Louis Sachar

  Stupid, Thinking, Knows

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.99, Yearling

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• Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Stupid, Ignorance, Feelings

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• Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart people everywhere. What they are those religious apologists are smart poeple who can build these amazingly intricate rationalizations for whatever weird practice they favor. Whether it's ritual cannibalism, or praying to spirits, or treating women as chattel. And they always building this on terrible shaky foundation of false premises.

  PZ Myers

  Religious, Philosophy, Smart

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• It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Dog, Smart, Stupid

  "'The future is going to be very exciting'". Interview With Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2009.

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• Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Stupid, People, Done

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• I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.

  Pierre Salinger

  Stupid, May

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• To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course... We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb...to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.

  Rick Yancey

  Stars, Stupid, Mean

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Isle of Blood”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Stupid, Shy, Economy

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• Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in the company of their 'inferiors'? They would need to shed their desperate need to admire a man, and accept the gentler role of loving him. A learned woman cannot castrate a truck-driver like she can her intellectual rival, because he has no exaggerated respect for her bookish capacities. The alternative to conventional education is not stupidity, and many a clever girl needs the corrective of a humbler soul's genuine wisdom.

  Germaine Greer

  Girl, Clever, Men

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

  Utada Hikaru

  Fun, Stupid, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The public are not stupid.

  Pete Waterman

  Stupid

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• Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Stupid, Guy

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• As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional and beautiful being, as a sort of marvellous divinity, and, in spite of myself, surmounting my will and my reason, I feel rising, from the depths of my being, toward this rich man, who is very often an imbecile, and sometimes a murderer, something like an incense of admiration. Is it not stupid? And why? Why?

  Octave Mirbeau

  Beautiful, Stupid, Men

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• Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.

  Mason Cooley

  Stupidity, Nonsense

  "City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1994.

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• Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways?

  Robertson Davies

  Stupid, Father, Important

  "Haunted by Halloween". The New York Times, October 31, 1990.

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• There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

  Jeff Abbott

  Jobs, Stupid, Rams

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• But people turn on their televisions. They turn on their televisions and they see what's happening in Iraq. The American people are not stupid. And the one thing they understand, they understand how incredibly mismanaged and bungled this war has been by the civilians in this administration. And - I mean, you can't paper over that, any more than you can paper over Katrina.

  Joe Biden

  War, Stupid, Mean

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 16, 2006.

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• I'm not stupid. I would like to have some businesses that grow so I won't have to be out there on the road when I'm 44.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Stupid, Grows

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