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• I call the years when our children are between six and twelve the "golden years," not because everything's perfect . . . but because the kids are capable and independent. . . . They're becoming fascinating human beings who continually astound us and make us laugh. And they build our self-esteem. They still adore us for the most part, not yet having reached that age of thinking everything we do is dumb, old-fashioned and irrelevant.

  Vicki Lansky

  Children, Self Esteem, Kids

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• Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and double standards in the face of a natural drift towards monogamous bonding. Young men have been called upon to prove their masculinity by their willingness to die in warfare, and young women have been called upon to prove their femininity by their willingness to die for their man. Women have been asked to appear small, dumb, and helpless so men would feel big and strong, brave, and clever. It's been a trick.

  Frank Pittman

  Strong, Clever, Struggle

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• It's modern-day slavery.

  Adrian Peterson

  Nfl, Slavery, Modern

  "Adrian Peterson expresses frustration on labor issues". Interview with Doug Farrar, sports.yahoo.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I Play When I Want to Play.

  Randy Moss

  Play, Nfl, Want

  "Straight Talk, Homey". Interview with Kalyn Kahler, www.si.com. July 15, 2016.

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• There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones.

  Lipman Bers

  Smart, Science, Two

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• The day is done. I'm having fun. I think I'm dumb. Or maybe just happy.

  Kurt Cobain

  Fun, Thinking, Done

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• I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.

  Charles Kettering

  Men, Doe, Done

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• You may, or may not, have better child care instincts than your husband; but his can certainly be developed. If you don't respectthe natural parenting talents that each of you has, you may inadvertently cast the two of you into the skewed but complementary roles of the Expert and the Dumb Apprentice.

  Jean Marzollo

  Husband, Children, Two

  Jean Marzollo (1991). “Your Maternity Leave”, Poseidon Press

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• Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Prayer, Men, Joy

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• There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that they're dumb. There needs to be a recognition that you need different ways to teach children who have got reading problems.

  Jackie French

  Children, Stupid, Reading

  "Jackie French, Author". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 15, 2011.

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• I don't really find a problem with technology or television, or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.

  Jason Bateman

  Crazy, Thinking, Technology

  "Jason Bateman Talks Disconnect, Cyber-Bullying, His Feelings about Technology, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 11, 2013.

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• When I was a kid they didn't call it dyslexia. They called it you know, you were slow, or you were retarded, or whatever. What you can never change is the effect that the words 'dumb' and 'stupid' have on young people. I knew I wasn't stupid, and I knew I wasn't dumb. My mother told me that. If you read to me, I could tell you everything that you read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Mother, Stupid, Kids

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• Hi, my name is Jaime and I play bass, and I have dumb hair.

  Jaime Preciado

  Hair, Play, Names

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• Never underestimate a dumb question.

  Brandon Boyd

  Dumb Questions, Underestimate, Never Underestimate

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• My ass may be dumb, but I ain't no dumbass.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  May, Ass, Jackie Brown

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• The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Odds, Challenges, Fields

  "Jerry Seinfeld, Online Force" by Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. May 27, 2015.

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• Two touch the string,
  The harp is dumb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Two, Solitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.152, The Floating Press

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• Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Jewels, Mind

  1590-1 Valentine to Duke.TheTwo Gentlemen ofVerona, act 3, sc.1, l.89-91.

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• O, let my books be then the eloquence
  And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
  Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
  More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Tongue, Looks

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 23.

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• Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Summer, Sports, Spring

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• America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a "domestic disturbance.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  America, Middle East, World

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.167, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One rational voice is dumb: over a grave
  The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.
  Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
  And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

  W. H. Auden

  Death, Cities, Voice

  "In Memory of Sigmund Freud" l. 109 (1939)

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• CIA Director George Tenet has now testified before the 9/11 commission and he said we are still making the same dumb mistakes, like leaving memos on the President's desk.

  David Letterman

  Mistake, Leaving, President

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• I think a lot of people haven't even seen my videos but just hearing my name are like "Oh, that's that dumb Internet thing." And I'm definitely trying to shake that a little bit.

  Shane Dawson

  Thinking, Names, People

  Source: cultural-learnings.com

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• I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen.

  Mario Andretti

  Green, Superstitions, Pens

  "The Mario Andretti Indy 500 Interview: Part II". Interview with Steven Capwell, www.littlepocketguide.com.

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