Dumb Quotes - Page 39

• Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Book, Civilization, Literature History

  Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, Center for the Book, Authors' League of America (1980). “The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979”, Library of Congress

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• We parents ask dumb questions, therefore we get dumb answers.

  Bill Cosby

  Parent, Answers, Asks

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• So many of us have our asses watching stupid reality shows, desensitizing our brains. Like, "Wow, isn't that dumb, but I'm so entertained right now! That's the stupidest thing I've seen in my life - give me more of it!" You know what I'm talking about. I turn on the television and I'm like, "This is so bad, but I cannot get my fucking eyes off of it." It's not good.

  Michael Pitt

  Stupid, Reality, Giving

  "Michael Pitt: 'Making Movies Is the Only Thing I Know How to Do'". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I have always survived with comedy, in that I grew up very dyslexic and did not get good grades. I always thought I was dumb, and there are many people out there that would agree

  Joel McHale

  People, Comedy, Grew Up

  Source: collider.com

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• I guess that's the oddest personality trait for me - I'm too dumb and naïve to ever really be nervous about anything. I just don't take it all that seriously. I'm much more happy to go home and lay on the couch and watch I Dream of Jeannie with my fiancée and our dog.

  Chris Zylka

  Dream, Dog, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was as if he (Sigmar Polke) painted his imagery in a highly wrought way, instead of a calculatedly dumb way, or mechanical way, by silk-screening or by tracing from epidiascope projections, and so on.

  Matthew Collings

  Way, Imagery, Screening

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• An Animated Cartoon Theology:
  1. People are animals.
  2. The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain.
  3. Life is antagonistic to the living.
  4. The flesh can be sawed, crushed, frozen, stretched, burned, bombed, and plucked for music.
  5. The dumb are abused by the smart and the smart destroyed by their own cunning.
  6. The small are tortured by the large and the large destroyed by their own momentum.
  7. We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Pain, Smart, Animal

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• I try to dumb down out there. They tell you to stay within yourself, so that's what I do. Mentally, I'm not gonna out-think myself too often.

  John Kruk

  Thinking, Trying

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• Everybody is a dumb blonde at heart.

  Jessica Simpson

  Heart, Blonde, Dumb Blonde

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• I'm definitely ditzy and people believe that about me. But I mean, I'm not dumb.

  Jessica Simpson

  Believe, Mean, People

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• Every coach, every executive, every leader: They all know right from wrong. Even those Enron guys. When someone uncovers a scandal in their company, I don't think they can say, "I didn't know that was going on." They're just saying they're too dumb to do their job! And if they really are too dumb, then why are they getting paid millions of dollars to do it? They know what's going on.

  Bo Schembechler

  Jobs, Thinking, Enron Scandal

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• Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, 'What did he say?'

  Lewis Black

  Stupid, Differences, Rooms

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• Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life.

  Robert Bridges

  Men, Animal, Air

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• The larger the government, the more our livings standards are reduced. We are fortunate as a civilization that the progress of free enterprise generally outpaces the regress of government growth, for, if that were not the case, we would be poorer each year - not just in relative terms, but absolutely poorer too. The market is smart and the government is dumb, and to these attributes do we owe the whole of our economic well-being.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Smart, Government, Years

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• When you're a little bit dumb and naive things get done that no one believed could be done.

  John Peterman

  Done, Littles, Naive

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• The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

  Sarah Silverman

  Smart, Mean, Hopeful

  FaceBook post by Sarah Silverman from Mar 16, 2011

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• Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

  Andrew Greeley

  War, Taken, Agency

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• If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it, you're a dumb-ass. And if you can look at the deficit and not see that the problem is that the rich stopped paying taxes, you're a Republican.

  Bill Maher

  Looks, Paying Taxes, Answers

  "Coulter Exposes Maher As An Environmental Hypocrite". "Real Time with Bill Maher", www.newsbusters.org. July 9, 2011.

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• At most corporations if you make an acquisition and it turns out to be a disaster, all the paperwork and presentations that caused the dumb acquisition to be made are quickly forgotten. You've got denial, you've got everything in the world. You've got Pavlovian association tendency. Nobody even wants to even be associated with the damned thing or even mention it. At Johnson & Johnson, they make everybody revisit their old acquisitions and wade through the presentations. That is a very smart thing to do. And by the way, I do the same thing routinely.

  Charlie Munger

  Smart, Acquisition, Denial

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• There's an elitism that comes out with the entertainment industry. I'll talk about some shows, but I'm not gonna say that you're dumb for watching one over the other. I just let it go. I don't have to declare a fatwa on any of these things. I've gotten over some of my elitism.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Let It Go, Entertainment, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You can push credit too far, do a dumb acquisition, leverage yourself excessively - it's not just derivatives [that can bring about your downfall].

  Charlie Munger

  Buckets, Acquisition, Credit

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• If you have the opportunities of Berkshire, an investment in gold is dumb.

  Charlie Munger

  Opportunity, Gold, Investment

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• Strategic plans cause more dumb decisions than anything else in America.

  Charlie Munger

  America, Decision, Causes

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• ...in terms of business mistakes that I've seen over a long lifetime, I would say that trying to minimize taxes too much is one of the great standard causes of really dumb mistakes. I see terrible mistakes from people being overly motivated by tax considerations. Warren and I personally don't drill oil wells. We pay our taxes. And we've done pretty well, so far. Anytime somebody offers you a tax shelter from here on in life, my advice would be don't buy it.

  Charlie Munger

  Mistake, Oil, Long

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• In contrast to what the women have been told (that they are dumb and ugly) and how they have been controlled with confined strictures, the dance class is a safe place in which the women have choices and can improve their self-concept.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Self, Class, Choices

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.198, Rowman Altamira

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