Dumb Quotes - Page 37

• Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

  Petronius

  Hope, Caught, Humans

  Petronius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Petronius (Illustrated)”, p.779, Delphi Classics

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• The children are our future. And that is why, ultimately, we're screwed unless we do something about it. If you haven't noticed, the children who are our future are good-looking, but they aren't all that bright. As dense as they might be, they will eventually notice that adults have spent all the money, spread disease, and turned the planet into a smoky, filthy ball of death. We're raising an entire generation of dumb, pissed-off kids who know where the handguns are kept. This is not a good recipe for a happy future.

  Scott Adams

  Children, Future, Kids

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• Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

  Francis Bacon

  Wings, White, Secret

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• If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.

  Stephen King

  People, Ifs

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• I'm not going to just do a dumb zombie movie, although I love zombie movies.

  Sam Rockwell

  Zombie, Zombie Movie

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 4, 2008.

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• I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something. I wasn't unordinary; I wasn't extraordinary.

  James Mercer

  Kids, Kind, Dork

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

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• I think humans are stupid. We fight and kill each other. I think that's dumb. Aliens would be smarter than that and wouldn't approach things on that level. I can't really fathom it being a negative thing for aliens to visit.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Stupid, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Honestly, I think it's dumb luck that I'm able to kind of get away doing different types of films in different genres. There's always a tendency to kind of stick with what works, or stick with one particular kind of brand or movie. But so far I've been getting away with it, so I'm going to continue to do that for as long as I can.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Long, Luck

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

  Fred Brooks

  Men, Syntax, Machines

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• In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.

  George Gilder

  Smart, World, Telephones

  "Why we need 'stupid' networks" by Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2003.

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• Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.

  Marvin Minsky

  Children, Smart, Ideas

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• By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?

  Stella Gibbons

  Dark, Men, Long

  'Cold Comfort Farm' (1932) ch. 20

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• A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.

  Chris Hedges

  Powerful, Lying, Ghetto

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• As a young designer explained to me bluntly: "Everyone upstairs is dumb," referring to the floor above the engineering lair at the 156 University office where customer support, administrators and salespeople sat. My first impulse was to laugh at his ridiculous, blithe dismissiveness, until I realized that it wasn't very funny.

  Katherine Losse

  Engineering, Laughing, Office

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Recorded music is basically free now. I used to tour to promote a CD, but now I make a CD to promote a tour. I've moved on and live with the new reality, but I do get frustrated when people do dumb things.

  Peter Frampton

  Reality, Cds, People

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

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• There are no dumb male questions. There are dumb males, but not dumb male questions.

  Brooke Shields

  Males

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You need to update your blog a couple of times a week. You need to post a Twitter here and there. It feels so dumb to say that stuff, but it's important for me to keep that presence going.

  Nick Thune

  Couple, Important, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?

  William Powell

  Fool, Democrat

  "Fictional character: Father". "Life with Father", www.imdb.com. 1947.

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• It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.

  Salman Rushdie

  Feels

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• [To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.

  Anthony John Patrick Kenny

  Animal, Intellectual, Mind

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• Americans are so dumb!

  Bjork

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• I have to deal with some dumb folks. It's a real drag.

  DJ Spooky

  Real, Drag, Deals

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Accountability, Trash, Predictions

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• Well maybe it is stupid, but it's also dumb!

  Patrick Star

  Stupid, Wells

  "SpongeBob SquarePants/ Krabby Land/The Camping Episode". Animation, Comedy, Family, April 2004.

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• Dumb people are just blissfully unaware of how dumb they are.

  Patrick Star

  People, Dumb People

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