Stupid Quotes - Page 17

• I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

  Joel Silver

  People, Saws, Action

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• I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

  Jessica Simpson

  Courage, Thinking, Differences

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• I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

  Kevin Spacey

  Real, Uprising, Mad

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• It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

  Jordin Sparks

  Parent, Matter, Tell Me The Truth

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• I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!

  Danielle Steel

  Summer, Children, Lying

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• You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

  Gertrude Stein

  Jobs, Lying, Silly

  Gertrude Stein (2004). “Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• Every once in a while you just have to decide to do something very crazy and very right--just to dare yourself to live. I don't mean doing something stupid and destructive--just something fun and good and beautiful.

  Regina Doman

  Beautiful, Fun, Crazy

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• The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

  Neal Stephenson

  Intelligent, Differences, People

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.283, Spectra

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• New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

  Wallace Stevens

  New York, Walking Away, Mirrors

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.

  Patricia Briggs

  Insane, Problem, Rulers

  Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Blood”, p.128, Penguin

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• To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Opposites, Two, Cooperation

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• What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you." "Why?" "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?

  Rick Riordan

  War, Fighting, What If

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• Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let's enjoy this time. It's marvelous. Felipe-Eat, Pray, Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Pain, Ideas, Suffering

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.275, A&C Black

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• People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid.

  T-Pain

  Thinking, People, Beard

  "The religions and political views of T-Pain" by Tom Kershaw, hollowverse.com. May 21, 2012.

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• Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

  Matt Taibbi

  War, Fire, Law

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• Stupid is not illegal.

  Dave Ramsey

  Illegal

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• Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sin

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• There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.

  John Steinbeck

  Sweet, Heart, Cities

  John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus”

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• There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

  Twyla Tharp

  Silly, Mean, Perfectly Good

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• The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

  Adam Smith

  Exercise, Simple, Men

  Adam Smith (2017). “The Wealth of Nations (illustrated)”, p.590, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, America, Mind

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.137, Ballantine Books

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• Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Art, Block, Rain

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• Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

  James Thurber

  Witty, Trying, Obscurity

  Letter to Malcolm Cowley on March 11, 1954. "Collecting Himself". Book by James Thurber, 1989.

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• Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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• You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Morning, Children

  Jane Austen (2014). “Northanger Abbey (illustrated)”, p.90, Osmora Incorporated

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