Stupid Quotes - Page 19

• 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 wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

  Amy Winehouse

  Girl, Bad Ass, Feminist

  "What I know about men". Interview with Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2006.

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

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Would Be, Literature

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• Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

  Haruki Murakami

  Organization, People, Too Much

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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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• There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Doors, Intellectual, Next

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• Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be calling pubs poos?" "Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Calling, Able, Wonder

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.38, Delacorte Press

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• Every time I think I’m getting smarter I realize that I’ve just done something stupid. Dad says there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don’t know, and don’t know they don’t know; those who don’t know and do know they don’t know; and those who know and know how much they still don’t know. Heavy stuff, I know. I think I’ve finally graduated from the don’t-knows that don’t know to the don’t-knows that do.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Dad, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jul 21, 2014

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• When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  College, People, Want

  "Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the Privacy Hot Seat at D8". Interview with John Paczkowski, allthingsd.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don't have that. Like 'She Blinded Me With Science.' It's a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby.

  Greg Graffin

  Song, Strong, Lucky

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• Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

  Evgeny Morozov

  People, Dictator, Regimes

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• Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brain, Gold, Draco Malfoy

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• Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.

  Lynn Viehl

  Home, Doors, Ideas

  Lynn Viehl (2005). “Private Demon: A Novel of the Darkyn”, p.80, Penguin

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• You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way. - Breeze

  Brandon Sanderson

  Trying, Sound, Way

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.87, Macmillan

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

  Paris Hilton

  Wall, Dumb, Walmart

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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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• In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care?

  Dave Eggers

  Light, People, Car

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.221, Vintage

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• He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

  Alice Hoffman

  People, Flawed, Unfathomable

  Alice Hoffman (2009). “The Story Sisters: A Novel”, p.158, Broadway Books

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• I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Want, Fool, Paint

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.257, UPNE

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• After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?

  Frank O'Hara

  Nice, Writing, Mean

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.382, Univ of California Press

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• Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very complicated," he said sadly. "So they are," John Rowlands said. His voice deepened a little, louder and clearer than it had been. "But when the battles between you and your adversaries are done, Will Stanton, in the end the fate of all the world will depend on just those people, and on how many of them are good or bad, stupid or wise. And indeed it is all so complicated that I would not dare foretell what they will do with their world. Our world.

  Susan Cooper

  Wise, Fate, Our World

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• I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!

  John Waters

  Attitude, Nice, Hopeful

  John Waters (2007). “Crackpot: The Obsessions of”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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