Dumb Quotes - Page 34

• It's weird to make a decision where everyone in your life disapproves, pretty vocally and directly. They said, "You've got one year left. Just do it." I had a full scholarship so I didn't have to pay for it. They asked, "Why don't you just get the degree so you can have it?" And I said, "You don't understand. I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do and now I know. I have the answer and it's dumb to waste any more time."

  Demetri Martin

  Years, Decision, Trying

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.believermag.com. February 2006.

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• Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that's because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access to information for intelligence. We think that because we know how to use iPhones (but not build them), browse the Internet (but not understand how it works), and use Google (but not really know anything), our educational system is working just great. By the same token, we think that those dumb aristocrats who used horses to get around and didn't have electricity were neanderthals.

  Glenn Beck

  Horse, Educational, Stupid

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• I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

  Robert Lopez

  Smart, Thinking, Profound

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• Football players are misunderstood. They arent the dumb jocks people think they are.

  Simone Elkeles

  Football, Player, Thinking

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• My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary.

  Karen Russell

  Vocabulary, Class, My Favorite

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• Cuz the 808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb.

  Sir Mix-a-Lot

  Cuz, Kicks

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• Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. Thats how you stand out in the crowd.

  Gary Cohn

  Jobs, Mistake, Opportunity

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• Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race. When asked what went wrong, Perry said, I guess America is not ready to elect a dumb guy from Texas. But in time.

  Conan O'Brien

  America, Race, Texas

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• Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Holes

  Pickwick Papers ch. 25 (1837)

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• Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Injustice And Oppression, Actors

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Nicholas Nickleby: Easyread Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.

  Walter Kirn

  Dream

  Walter Kirn (1993). “She Needed Me”

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• I have a lot of trouble forgiving myself for being so dumb... But yes, of course, the big generous compassionate view that you should take of yourself and of all events is: what a glorious circus train this has been, and what a wonderful messy parade, and all of those steps took me here, where I precisely need to be now, so God bless it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Views, Forgiving, Events

  Interview with Rachel Khong, therumpus.net. October 29, 2012.

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• Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke. So the savings and loans went broke, the government stepped in, paid off depositors, and now they're left with this mass of assets to sell. We're not talking about selling here, we're talking about buying intelligently. They were selling what they got handed to them by a bunch of savings and loan operators that had in many cases had done some very dumb thing. But their job was to liquidate it. And they liquidated.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Jobs, Government, Talking

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided to get straight A's. I didn't want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A's once, its easier.

  Bill Gates

  Summer, Thinking, Average

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• Actually, most people don't think I have too much sense because I would rather be fairly intelligent and act dumb instead of not having any sense at all and try to act smart.

  Phil Robertson

  Smart, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

  Thomas Browne

  Envy, Debt, Praise

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.152

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• If you can read and don't, you're dumb.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Reading, Ifs

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• I thought no more was needed
  Youth to prolong
  Than dumb-bell and foil
  To keep the body young.
  O who could have foretold
  That the heart grows old?

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Sadness, Body

  'A Song'

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• And I have asked to be
  Where no storms come,
  Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
  And out of the swing of the sea.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Swings, Sea, Storm

  'No worst, there is none' (written 1885)

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• The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Stupid, Nests

  "Fragment on Slavery" ca. 1 July 1854

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• We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust.

  Garrison Keillor

  Running, Morning, Pain

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• The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

  Norman Thomas

  Trying, Doctrine, Poor

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• The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

  Karl Kraus

  Communication, Eye, Blind

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.

  Samuel Beckett

  Loss, Thinking, Sight

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.183, Faber & Faber

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• It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

  Abraham Maslow

  God, Stupidity, Lawyer

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