Dumb Quotes - Page 22

• 'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.

  Albert Allen Bartlett

  Smart, Class, Differences

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• Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.

  Greg Camp

  Running, Fun, Smart

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• On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Ghost, Speak

  Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “The New Book of Days”, p.372, Random House

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• I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

  Scott Weiland

  Periods, Young

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• As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you're gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headachesmake you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out.

  Frank Zappa

  Jobs, Smart, Believe

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• The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid.  Awareness atrophies.  Dumb gets dumber.  Lists are everywhere – the five things you need to know about so-and-so; the eight essential qualities of such-and-such; the 11 delights of somewhere or other.  We demand shortcuts, as if there are shortcuts to genuine experiences.  These lists are meaningless.

  Roger Cohen

  Stupid, Eight, Quality

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• It's kind of dumb; everybody should be able to listen to the kind of music they want and just because you're a fan of a band for a longer period of time doesn't mean you have a greater stake of claim to the band or the music.

  Ray Toro

  Mean, Want, Able

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• I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care

  Dean Kamen

  People, Answers, Care

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• I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.

  John Entwistle

  Mean, Eighteen Years Old, America

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• You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You eat lavishly from banquet tables prepared for you by your ancestors. You sit under the shade of trees that you did not plant or cultivate or care for. You have a choice in life, you can just sit back, getting fat, dumb, and happy, consuming all the blessings put before you, or it can metabolize inside of you, become fuel to get you into the fight, to make this democracy real, to make it true to its words that we can be a nation of liberty and justice for all.

  Cory Booker

  Real, Fighting, Opportunity

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• I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Stupid, School, Students

  Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

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• Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians' jobs... When the government sees its people as the enemy, sooner or later that feeling gets to be mutual. And that's when the real weirdness begins.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Real, Government

  Matt Taibbi (2008). “The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire”, p.131, Spiegel & Grau

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• With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Ideas, Trying, Retail

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• Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Animal, Slavery, Littles

  "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

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• Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Animal, Civilization, Black

  "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

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• To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.

  Stuart Wilde

  Winning, Victory, Moral

  Stuart Wilde (2011). “The Three Keys to Self-Empowerment”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity. The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime. We won't know them by their name but their compensation will be to affect the outcome of the planet. Until then, there's a lot of work to be done.

  Adam Parfrey

  Play, Names, Style

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• Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be, that's stupid. So be yourself.

  Christina Grimmie

  Being Yourself, Stupid, Trying

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

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• I tried to laugh early on about ego and pride... I do something great and then I do something really dumb and then I laugh. You'll always be that kid.

  Matthew Ashford

  Kids, Pride, Laughing

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• I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.

  Milos Forman

  Stupid, Fall, Communism

  "For Lenin, read Lennon", www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2000.

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• Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.

  Ivan Reitman

  Children, Awards, Years

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• Whether it’s food or women, the ones on front street are supermodels. Big hair, big tits, big trouble, but the one you come home to is probably something like cavatelli and red sauce. She’s not screaming for attention because she knows she’s good enough even if your dumb ass hasn’t figured it out yet.

  Eddie Huang

  Home, Hair, Attention

  "Tiger Moms and Fly Girls: How Do Women Fare on ‘Fresh Off the Boat’?" by Sara Stewart, www.indiewire.com. February 5, 2015.

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• I'm trying to set out the passion and complexity of this sport. Many people think it's a dumb activity: stand on the gas and turn left. In fact, it's probably one of the most complex sports in existence.

  Janet Guthrie

  Sports, Passion, Thinking

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• The one and original lovable monster is lost amid all the hydraulic manipulations in what now emerges as the story of a dumb blonde who falls for a huge plastic finger.

  Judith Crist

  Fall, Blonde, Monsters

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• The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

  John Milton

  Running, Lying, Cells

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.368

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