Dumb Quotes - Page 40

• Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.

  John Allen Paulos

  Pseudoscience, Acquiescence, Ease

  John Allen Paulos (2011). “Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences”, p.74, Macmillan

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• I'm one of the few dumb Jewish doctors.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Doctors

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• I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, People, Forever

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• While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

  Andrew Motion

  Rap, Should Have, Choices

  "Ode to a right royal charmer" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.

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• If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb.

  Louis C. K.

  Thinking, Done, Ifs

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• You don't have to dumb down - you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I've found a couple - I've been lucky - but it's probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Clever, Couple, Men

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• Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Country, Idiot, Folks

  "15 Powerful Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Quotes To Make You Want To Read 'Between The World And Me'" by Aaron Barksdale, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2015.

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• Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake.

  Terry Pratchett

  Heaven, Sake, Students

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• I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.

  Bobby Fischer

  Stupid, Games, Play

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• You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Can Do

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• I've always loved The Simpsons, just because it was really, really funny. As a kid, you love the characters. You know that the dad is dumb and frustrated, and you know that the boy is smarter than everyone else around him and is constantly getting into mischief.

  Alex Hirsch

  Dad, Character, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers.

  Lenny Bruce

  Kids, Technology, Years

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

  John Cusack

  Couple, Character, Lines

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• We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.

  Marge Piercy

  Sex, School, Mind

  Marge Piercy (2011). “Dance the Eagle to Sleep”, p.73, PM Press

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• Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Football, Nice, Too Much

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• There is no such thing as a dumb question but there is such a thing as a dumb person asking a question.

  Behdad Sami

  Dumb Questions, Asking, Persons

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• There are no dumb questions, but there are plenty of people who give dumb answers.

  George W. Buck

  People, Giving, Answers

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• I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

  George Clooney

  Mistake, Turkeys, Careers

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• The Founding Fathers were more deists. If you had to categorize them as anything. There was some sort of moving prime force. But it's an impersonal force. Some people call it Nature. Certainly not this personal god who you have a personal relationship with, who listens to your prayers and answers them, or doesn't. You know, not the silly stuff that most Americans believe because we're such a dumb nation.

  Bill Maher

  Prayer, Father, Believe

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

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• As you get older you realize your parents don't look so dumb - and that you're not as smart as you thought you were.

  Paul Reiser

  Smart, Parent, Looks

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• I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do, it's a dumb idea. Not everything we found fault with was necessarily wrong; we were right, for example, to resent, as kids, being told when to go to bed. We'd be equally wrong, as parents, to let our kids stay up all night. To throw out all the tools of parenting just because our parents used them would be like making yourself speak English without using ten letters of the alphabet; it's hard to do.

  Paul Reiser

  Kids, Night, Speak English

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• I think the best thing about being dumb is that it makes magic a lot better. Where the hell did that rat come from? I dunno, but I'm calling the cops because he just cut that lady in half.

  Demetri Martin

  Cutting, Thinking, Magic

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• It's amazing how dumb people can impress you with how much stupider they can be when they really assert themselves.

  Dane Cook

  People, Dumb People, Impress

  Twitter post from Sep 3, 2013

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• There aren't really any actual misconceptions, just dumb people versus good, honest people.

  Ted Nugent

  People, Honest, Versus

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.

  Casey Affleck

  Math, People, Guy

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2010.

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