Stupid Quotes - Page 10

• I am a dork in disguise; I love doing stupid stuff.

  Jessie J

  Stuff, Dork, Disguise

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

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• I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

  Joshua Jackson

  Hate, Stress, People

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

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• Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Thinking, Compassion

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• I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

  LeBron James

  Team, Mean, Fighting

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• To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

  Karl Jaspers

  Philosopher, Poet, Foolish

  "Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre". Book by Walter Kaufmann, 1956.

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• It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Silly, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.56, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

  Penn Jillette

  Doe, World, Hindsight

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

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• Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.

  Penn Jillette

  Insecurity, Waste, Parades

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

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• I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy.

  Penn Jillette

  Crazy, Believe, Mean

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

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• I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.

  Penn Jillette

  Promise, Trying, President

  "Commentary: Last thing we need now is a great leader" by Penn Jillette, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2008.

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• We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

  Steve Jobs

  Strong, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Apple Using Cash to Secure Cache of Components" by John Paczkowski, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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• If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.

  Boris Johnson

  Ifs, Judged

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Easter, Real, War

  "THE CULTUREPULP Q&A: 'Persepolis' creator Marjane Satrapi". Interview with Mike Russell, culturepulp.typepad.com. January 25, 2008.

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• Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Thinking, Criminals, Way

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• 'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Father, Stories

  "Bonus Material From Our Exclusive 'Where The Wild Things Are' Roundtable". Interview With Andrew Romano, www.newsweek.com. October 9, 2009.

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• I may be getting old, but not foolish.

  Elia Kazan

  May, Foolish, Getting Old

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• My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Science, Men

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

  Shakira

  Women, Intelligent, Rights

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

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• There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Kids, Always Trying

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

  Ashton Kutcher

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

  Steve Lacy

  Crazy, Years, Play

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• At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Girl, People, Decision

  "Kendrick Lamar: the rise of a good kid rapper in a mad city". Interview with Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.

  Queen Latifah

  Tired, Mean, Racism

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• I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

  Avril Lavigne

  Jobs, Fun, Crazy

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• What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Silly

  William Law (1739). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. By William Law, A.M.”, p.120

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