Stupid Things Quotes - Page 5

• There is sorrow, but I hope one can see that it is sorrow for the people who died so young and so crazy, for nothing. I have respect for them, but also for their wishes, or for the power of their wishes. Because they tried to change the stupid things in the world.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Crazy, Stupid

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• For the ignorant, even the most stupid things can be accepted as the most perfect! They can easily declare a blockheaded as a genius! Their opinions must always be considered as invalid and must be ignored!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Perfect, Ignorant

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• The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

  Penn Jillette

  Hurt, Stupid, Fire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• It is hard to get mad at Donald Trump for saying stupid things, in the same way you don't get mad at a monkey when he throws poop at you at the zoo... What does get me angry is the ridiculous, disingenuous defending of the poop-throwing monkey.

  Jon Stewart

  Zoos, Stupid, Mad

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• President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that -- Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore.

  Jay Leno

  Stupid, Apology, Should Have

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• As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.

  Isabel Allende

  Stupid, Dark, Color

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• I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things.

  David Foster Wallace

  Girl, Stupid, Talking

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• Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Success

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.56, Princeton University Press

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• You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

  David Cronenberg

  Stupid, Believe, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wonder how it is that I’m fooling so many people, I’m doing one of the most stupid things in the world…and people seem to be falling for it.

  Cindy Sherman

  Stupid, Fall, People

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• Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

  Bradley Whitford

  Stupid, Affair, Things To Do

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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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• Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really, why strain yourself when so many wonderful names already exist in the world?The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That's right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.There's another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.

  Ilya Ilf

  Stupid, Ohio, Names

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• I did plenty of crazy stuff, but I did a lot of charity stuff. You can't stop. You want to continue to taste, and sometimes that's crazy, stupid things.

  Leif Garrett

  Crazy, Stupid, Charity

  "Leif Garrett to Justin Bieber: 'Don't believe your own publicity'". Interview with Diana Falzone, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2013.

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• These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made, we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted or think it's normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. It's not normal. ... What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Teenager, Stupid

  Barack Obama's remarks after visit at El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 16, 2015.

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• Wouldn’t that be an incredibly stupid thing to do? To say ‘I never want to smoke again’, then spend the rest of your life saying ‘I’d love a cigarette.’ That’s what smokers who use the Willpower Method do. No wonder they feel so miserable. They spend the rest of their lives desperately moping for something that they desperately hope they will never have.

  Allen Carr

  Stupid, Want, Rest Of Your Life

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• If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Stupid, Done, Mona Lisa

  Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.188, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Stupid, Ideas, People

  "It's just a big mess inside my head". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• Man is full of energy; it is up to him how to use it! You can use your energy to do harm to people or to produce art and science; or you can use it for chattering or for deceiving people! By looking at the human history, we can easily say that man is guilty of wasting his energy mostly for stupid things!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Art, Stupid, Science

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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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• 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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• Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

  Bill Gates

  Stupid, Legacy, Want

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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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