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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• 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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• 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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• The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid, Silly, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “A Critic in Pall Mall”, p.214, Oscar Wilde

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• For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

  Bill Bryson

  Stupid, Smart, Technology

  "Notes from a Big Country" / "I'm a Stranger Here Myself", Book by Bill Bryson, 1998.

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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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• Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

  Douglas Gwyn

  Clever, Stupid, Technology

  "Introducing Regular Expressions". Book by Michael Fitzgerald, 2012.

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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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• 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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• The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have short term aims & limited attention span, and do incredibly stupid things while things blow up. Apart from things blowing up, this is just like the music industry.

  Robert Fripp

  Stupid, Blow, People

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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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• Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things.

  Carrie Fisher

  Smart, Stupid, Order

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

  Melissa Marr

  Stupid, Logic, Foolish

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• That depends on the man. I like breasts myself. A nice rack goes a long way in getting me to do just about anything. Even stupid things. (Phobos) You are so offensive! (Delphine) Oh, please, I’m ten thousand years old. You’re lucky I’m not more chauvinistic than I am. Babe, I’ve come a long way. (Phobos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Stupid, Men

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• I used to routinely break my ribs doing stupid things onstage, but I have a healthy fear of breaking my bones now.

  Michael Gira

  Stupid, Healthy, Ribs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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• Looking back, you can romanticize the things you did back then. I also like talking about the stupid things I've done.

  Walter Martin

  Stupid, Talking, Done

  "Back to School with Walter Martin". Interview with Matt Berninger, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

  Bill Gates

  Memories, Stupid, Computer

  "Build your foundation with basic". Q&A with Bill Gates, buffalonews.com. January 30, 1996.

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• I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.

  Moby

  Stupid, Fall, Guiding Principles

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water... I imagine monsters - stupid things.

  Eva Green

  Stupid, Water, Monsters

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• There was a time when everyone remembered that stupid thing about me not getting out of bed for less than $10,000 a day. These days, it's far more important to me that I'm part of a team which raises over $1 million a month for Aids. I'm much more proud of that, than that other old quote.

  Linda Evangelista

  Team, Stupid, Important

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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 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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