Stupidest Quotes - Page 3

• Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

  Orson Welles

  People, Stupidity, Crooks

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• New Rule: Since our new national position on science is, "Screw it, we prefer witchcraft," let's not just retire the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Let's drive it to one of the five stupidest States and have the locals beat it with sticks. Putting it in a museum is too dangerous. Someone could steal it, fly it into space and notice we revolve around the sun.

  Bill Maher

  Museums, Space, Atlantis

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.162, Penguin

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• What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.

  George Saunders

  War, Guy, Slaughterhouse Five

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.82, A&C Black

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• That was the funniest thing I'd heard in days. You're kidding, right? PLEASE tell me you have a stronger motive for me than 'fair is fair.' Life isn't FAIR, Dean....Nothing is fair, EVER. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I need to help you because FAIR IS FAIR? Try, 'I need you to help me so I won't rip out your spine and beat you with it.' I MIGHT respond to that. MAYBE.

  James Patterson

  Rip, Trying, Stronger

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• You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly. "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron. "What did you have to imitate her for?" "She laughed at my mustache!" "So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sorry, Mustache, Flocks

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• I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.

  Patrick Stump

  Want, Reason, Standards

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

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• She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.

  Lisa McMann

  School, Dwarves, Giving

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was able to get home it first hit me that you had left and I couldn't do anything about it. Every day before that an evening with you was waiting for me after school, now no more, strange feeling. I had grown too accustomed to your warmth. That is also a danger. At home I looked at the notebooks that you had bought and I got the stupidest surge of hope that I'd find something of you, something especially for meant for me. I would so much like to have something of you that I could always keep by me, that nobody else would notice.

  Sophie Scholl

  Notebook, School, Home

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• I made a terrible mistake. I got caught up in the excitement of the moment. I would never intentionally endanger the lives of my children. I love my children. I was holding my son tight. Why would I throw a baby off the balcony? That's the dumbest, stupidest story I ever heard.

  Michael Jackson

  Baby, Children, Mistake

  "Is Michael Jackson out of control?". www.cnn.com. November 21, 2002.

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• Infidelity, cheating is the easiest, stupidest, dumbest thing you can do.

  Joy Browne

  Cheating, Women, Infidelity

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• Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless.

  Ray Bradbury

  Years, Giving, Useless

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• Nowadays there are so many stars on television.There are all these generic stars now.There's Dave Caruso...Dave Caruso's kind of fun: "I know he killed your family...but he won't do it again." He says the stupidest sh*t. "I know he shot your children, but he won't do it any more." There isn't really a recognisable personality out there.

  Pablo Francisco

  Stars, Children, Fun

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• There's been a thoughtfulness to everything I do. Even the stupidest things I do have some kind of point.

  Jim Carrey

  Kind, Thoughtfulness

  "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 24, 2013.

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• But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that.

  Lucretius

  Centaurs, Body, Speak

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.160, Psychology Press

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• Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?

  Stefan Zweig

  People

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• As the stupidest person in the room, I always had the most to gain.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I am so tired of rearranging my life around what the stupidest people might do.

  Bill Maher

  Tired, People, Might

  "Bill Maher: The Golden Goose Special". TV Movie, 1997.

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• War to me is the stupidest way of settling anything. The whole damn thing goes to pieces.

  Frank Capra

  War, Pieces, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was little, I would always lie about the stupidest things. In kindergarten or first grade, I would tell people I had tigers living in my attic and a room full of gold.

  Kendall Jenner

  Lying, People, Gold

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I discovered early in my movie work that a movies never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.

  Ben Hecht

  Movie, Men, Directors

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• This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.

  Meg Cabot

  Mean, Wrestling, Class

  Meg Cabot (2009). “High Stakes”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself, they say. You're too self-absorbed. This is just about the stupidest thing you can say to a depressed person, and it is said every day to depressed people all over this country. And if it isn't that, it's Shut up and take your Prozac.

  Chase Twichell

  Depression, Country, Depressed Person

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• When a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You think: oh, nobody's going to ever speak to you again. But, it doesn't happen. Nobody cares. You know, they read it and they say "Oh, they hated your film." You care, at the time. But they don't. Nobody else cares.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, People, Care

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• Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood

  Raymond Chandler

  Mistake, Stupid, Animal

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• I never could understand the popular belief that because a man makes a lot of money he has a lot of brains. Some very rich men who made their fortunes have been among the stupidest men I have ever met.

  Julius Rosenwald

  Men, Brain, Belief

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