Stupid Things Quotes

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.

  Benjamin Carson

  Crazy, Thinking, Obamacare

  "Ben Carson: Obamacare worst thing ‘since slavery’" by Sean Sullivan, www.washingtonpost.com. October 11, 2013.

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• A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay.

  Benjamin Carson

  Crazy, Stupid, Gay

  "Ben Carson apologizes for comments on gay people" by Eric Bradner and Alexandra Jaffe, edition.cnn.com. March 5, 2015.

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• I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Marriage, Stupid, Gay

  "Schwarzenegger on abortion, gays, environment". edition.cnn.com. August 28, 2003.

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• You're supposed to eat the cows. They're great big lumbering stupid things - they'd be everywhere if we didn't eat them.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

  "Dylan Moran: Like, Totally". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

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• We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the rest of the world into submission, battered it down, pinned it to a glass slide and the pages of The Bool of Shhh.

  Lauren Oliver

  Smart, Stupid, Animal

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• Fear can be one of the most destructive emotions. It is, of course, also very important, in that fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgement of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

  Helen Mirren

  Stupid, Clouds, Evil

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• You have a brake in your brain that stops you doing stupid things. The older you are, the earlier that brake comes on. When you're 20 you stop at nothing; when you're older you're cleverer than when you're 20, so your brain brake operates more often!

  Niki Lauda

  Stupid, Brain, Brake

  Source: www.grandprix.com

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• The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.

  Susane Colasanti

  Hurt, Stupid, People

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• Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Girl, Stupid, Years

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.211, Penguin

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• Oh, for God's sake," I said. "Just give me the stupid thing." I took the panic button and stuck it into my Super Sexy Miracle Bra. "GPS," Ranger said to Morelli. "Probably I can find her breast without it," Morelli said. "But it's good to know there's a navigational system on board if I need it.

  Janet Evanovich

  Sexy, Stupid, Gps

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• People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Stupid, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

  Sarah Dessen

  Stupid, Destined

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.49, Penguin

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• I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Powerful, Stupid, School

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• Because when a guy does something stupid once, well, that’s because he’s guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that’s usually to impress some girl.

  Dr. Seuss

  Girl, Stupid, Guy

  "Fictional character: The Once-ler". "The Lorax", www.imdb.com. March 2, 2012.

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• My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.

  Tyler Perry

  Running, Attitude, Mistake

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• Being drunk leads smart people to do stupid things, which is what is so interesting.

  Kit Williamson

  Smart, Stupid, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When I was 17 me and my friend had mopeds. We used to play a game where we would close our eyes and drive while counting to the highest number we could. Once I got to eight, and that was pretty much the most stupid thing I've ever done in my life. I ended up on the other side of the road.

  Jason Flemyng

  Stupid, Eye, Eight

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• ...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things, then tries to claim he never said them, there's no rule against calling him a mendacious idiot - and no special qualifications required to make that pronouncement other than doing your own homework.Conversely, if someone without formal credentials consistently makes trenchant, insightful observations, he or she has earned the right to be taken seriously, regardless of background.

  Paul Krugman

  Stupid, Taken, Ideas

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• It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Mistake, Stupid, Journey

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• People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die.

  Jim Davidson

  Stupid, People, Materials

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• The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Genius, Probability

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• I did a lot of bad stuff from the age of 18 to 21. Those are days when everyone is usually in college doing a lot of stupid things. But since I was playing baseball, I was in the spotlight. I take full responsibility for doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. And I appreciate the second chance that the Twins are giving me.

  Delmon Young

  Baseball, Stupid, Responsibility

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• If God has given you a message, go and give it to the people as God has given it to you. It is a stupid thing to try to be eloquent.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Stupid, People, Giving

  Dwight L Moody (1898). “Men of the Bible: Abraham, Moses, Naaman, Nehemiah, Herod, John the Baptist, The Man Born Blind, Joseph of Arimathea, The Penitent Thief”, p.25, Moody Publishers

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• I bet Richard Fuld doesn't have an ounce of contrition. It's just megalomania. When it's like that, you need rules to prevent catastrophe. When banks are borrowing the government's credit rating, you need rules to prevent stupid things.

  Charlie Munger

  Stupid, Government, Needs

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