Dumb Quotes - Page 38

• We can't control what people do or say, even if it's dumb.

  Lisa Scottoline

  People, Ifs

  Lisa Scottoline (2014). “The Lisa Scottoline Collection: Volume 1: Look Again, Save Me”, p.575, St. Martin's Press

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• I don't like any one race or look or type of guy. My tastes as far as looks go are very diverse. I like guys with scruffy beards and leather jackets, but I also like a clean-cut 'GQ'-type guy, so my tastes are very ranged among somebody who laughs at my dumb jokes, too. I have plenty of them.

  Sasha Grey

  Cutting, Race, Leather Jackets

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• I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

  Doug Liman

  People, Action, Film

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• I may not be Einstein but I know dumb plus dumb equals you.

  Kelly Clarkson

  May, Plus, Knows

  Song: Einstein, Album: Stronger, 2011

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• Sometimes along the way in my life I don't want a smart woman right now, I want a dumb woman. But then you think, that doesn't work, now I want a smart woman. Then you get a smart woman and you go no, that doesn't work so it's just killing me right now.

  Gerard Butler

  Smart, Thinking, Want

  "'Idol' Days Over: Paula Abdul Refuses to Return". Interview with Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. August 5, 2009.

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• Don't text or twitter during the show. Just live your life. Don't keep telling people what you're doing. Just, because also - also - it lights up your big dumb face.

  Louis C. K.

  Light, People, Live Your Life

  "Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater". Documentary, December 8, 2011.

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• I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people.

  Sam Waterston

  People, Dumb People

  "Fictional character: Charlie Skinner". "The Newsroom" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Making fun of anyone's size, height, scarring, anything like that equals dumb.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Fun, Height, Size

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• If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work.

  George Lois

  Thinking, People, Lifetime

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• Don't be dumb. (don't get a tattoo)

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Tattoo

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• Be kind to dumb people.

  Don Herold

  People, Be Kind, Kind

  Don Herold (1924). “So human”

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• A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Attitude, Men, Two

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• For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Arms, Midst

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Pro Milone, IV, p. 430-34, 1922.

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• Faced with the opportunity to become the category of one, we almost always hesitate, almost always compromise, almost always dumb it down to play it a little bit safer

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Play, Littles

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• It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.

  Andy Rooney

  College, President

  "Andy Rooney, a Cranky Voice of CBS, Dies at 92" by Richard Severo and Peter Keepnews, www.nytimes.com. November 05, 2011.

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• If you Google me, you'll find plenty of "dumb blonde" references - even though I graduated with honors from Stanford and studied at Oxford University. I don't let it bother me.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Oxford, Google, Honor

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I've learned that sometimes when people don't like what you have to say, and don't want to debate you on ideas, it's just easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox News.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Ideas, People, Blonde

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I don't know if many people realize that Dolph Lundgren is a chemical engineer. He's not a dumb blond guy. This guy is smart and he's a martial artist.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Smart, Artist, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It goes without saying that what a girl goes through, boys could not even comprehend. If we get the flu, we need a week. We're idiots. But what was the most powerful realization to me was, how do single mothers with a low income cope? I can't complain about my dumb life. That's what was most revelatory to me.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Girl, Mother, Powerful

  Source: collider.com

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• I try to write for highest common denominator. I don't write for dumb people. I figure if everybody doesn't get it, that's OK. Someone bright enough will get it, and that's who I write for. It's probably not the way to make million-sellers. What can I say? I won't apologize for trying to write for smart people.

  Paul Westerberg

  Smart, Writing, People

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• The stock market goes nuts over any company that so much as mentions the word Internet. All this proves to me is that the boneheads on Wall Street are as dumb as they were in college when they had to switch their majors to business to keep from flunking out.

  John C. Dvorak

  Wall, College, Nuts

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• These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it . . . it's just dumb.

  Moby

  Self, Years, Drunk

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• There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Real, Heart, Expression

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.41

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• When Clark Gable, MGM's most popular and famous leading man asked for a percentage of the profits from his films, he was flatly refused. A top executive was reported to have said, He's nobody. We took him from nobody. We lavished him with lessons and publicity and now he's the most desired man in the world. Who taught him how to walk? We straightened his teeth and capped them into that smile. We taught this dumb cluck how to depict great emotions, and now he wants a piece of the action? Never!

  Jeanine Basinger

  Men, Teeth, Pieces

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• I bought a company in the mid-90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

  Warren Buffett

  Zero, Games, Shoes

  "Warren Buffett opens his wallet for Piers Morgan and America" by Lateef Mungin, www.cnn.com. October 23, 2013.

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