Stupid Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• I should warn you, I’m an expert on vampires. I’ve seen every episode made of Buffy, Angel, and Forever Knight, so don’t think a little fang-flashing is going to scare me.” – Nell to Adrian Oh, my God! You bit me on the leg! You drank my blood! I am not an appetizer!” You are much more then an appetizer. You are a twelve-course banquet. – Nell & Adrian I slid my tongue around the glossy enamel of his teeth, pausing to stroke down the length of an elongated canine tooth. Yeah. I know. How stupid is it to French kiss a vampire and not expect sharp teeth? – Nell

  Katie MacAlister

  Angel, Kissing, Thinking

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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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• What's Walmart, do they sell like wall stuff?

  Paris Hilton

  Wall, Dumb, Walmart

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• Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

  Sloan Wilson

  Funny, Success, Business

  Sloan Wilson (1976). “What shall we wear to this party?: The man in the gray flannel suit twenty years before & after”, Arbor House Publishing

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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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• The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Kids, Rebel

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• A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Drinking, Beer, Artist

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 22 June 1958

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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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• I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Moving, Mountain, Way

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.88, Cambridge University Press

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• I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who want to bleach their skin, that's fine. I just didn't bleach mine. I'm a black woman. I don't want to be anything but a black woman.

  NeNe Leakes

  Thinking, Black, Skins

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• I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

  Denis Leary

  Attention, Students, Best Students

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• The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

  Frances Wright

  Selfish, Heart, Men

  Frances Wright (1850). “Fanny Wright Unmasked by Her Own Pen: Explanatory Notes, Respecting the Nature and Objects of the Institution of Nashoba, and of the Principles Upon Which It Is Founded”, p.5

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