Stupid Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.

  J. D. Salinger

  Crazy, Mean, Doe

  "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger, (p. 19), 1961.

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• I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

  Michael Palin

  Silly, Wanted, Persons

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• People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.

  Michael Palin

  People, Spurs, Spur Of The Moment

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• Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Epic, Romantic Love

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• I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.

  Bill Parcells

  Play, Nfl, Dumb

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• You can't fix stupid.

  Ron White

  You Can't Fix Stupid

  Ron White (2007). “I Had the Right to Remain Silent...But I Didn't Have the Ability”, p.106, Penguin

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• It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Comfort, Sometimes, Feels

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

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• I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid.

  Trey Parker

  Kids, Thinking, House

  Interview with Jeff Onto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.

  Trey Parker

  Paper, Enough, Sean

  Interview with Jeff Onto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

  Trey Parker

  Ideas, Cool Movie, Great Idea

  Interview with Jeff Onto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Skills, Political, Use

  "Chambers Dictionary of Political Biography". Book by John Ransley, p. 345, 1991.

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• To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

  William Penn

  Men, Fool, Flattery

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.122

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• I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.

  Joe Perry

  Doe, Looks, Stones

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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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• There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.

  Pink

  Years, Tabloids, Stupid Things

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• I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Would Be, Literature

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• The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

  Alexander Pope

  Fool, Knows

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 263

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• 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

  Alexander Pope

  Nice, Literature, Blunt

  Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

  William Wordsworth

  Mind, Acting, Savages

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.370

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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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• 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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• Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

  Orson Welles

  Intelligent, People, Dumb

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• Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

  Sam Levenson

  Funny, Wise, Numbers

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.86, Open Road Media

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