Dummy Quotes

• It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Names, Pet, Would Be

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• I was a dummy in school.

  Alan Ladd

  School

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• Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Real, Sculpture

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• To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

  William Safire

  Mind, Accused, Channeling

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• Unless one can think wisely it is better to remain a dummy.

  L. Frank Baum

  Thinking

  L. Frank Baum (2016). “THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ – Complete Collection: 16 Novels in One Premium Edition (Fantasy Classics Series): The most Beloved Children’s Books about the Adventures in the Magical Land of Oz”, p.177, e-artnow

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• Find her, blind her, see who designed her. Act like a dummy until you grind her.

  Frank Zappa

  Grind, Blind

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• You could either ignore this advice, or take it from me:
  Be too nice, and people take you for a dummy.

  Daniel Dumile

  Nice, Rap, People

  Song: Deep Fried Frenz, 2004

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• For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway.

  J. K. Rowling

  Glasses, Talking, Splits

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• Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

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• Of course, I'm no dummy.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Courses

  "Tell the story! Tell the story!" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2008.

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• I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Stress, Thinking, Trying

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• My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.

  Roger Goodell

  Goal, My Family, Prove

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• Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.

  John Lydon

  School, Years, Names

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• Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.

  Don Rickles

  Phones, Who Cares, Smartphones

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• Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.

  William Goldman

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.144, A&C Black

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• I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.

  Jeff Dunham

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Jeff Dunham (2010). “All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me”, p.8, Penguin

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• I am no dummy, mate, that's for sure.

  Shane Warne

  Mates

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• Damn flowers. Nice kids, the ones who skated out and gave us them. But the flowers, the stem fell off. I stepped right on it and was on my ass in a flash. Must have looked good, huh? A hundred million guys watching all around the world, brass bands playing, the Russian cats in the stands, and here I am dumped on the ice. So I waved to the folks back home inthe Soo, a wave from the dummy with egg on his face.

  Phil Esposito

  Nice, Flower, Home

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• Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.

  Jeff Dunham

  Character, Boys, College

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit.

  Jeff Dunham

  Christmas, Book, Teaching

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

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• It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a rivulet swells into a brook; and before one has time to say 'what are you at?' - before the first tree it ever spoke to is a dummy, or the first hill it ever ran down has turned blue, here we all have airs and graces, demands and assertions of a full grown river.

  R.D. Blackmore

  Running, Sweet, Spring

  R. D. Blackmore (2015). “Crocker's Hole: From "Slain by the Doones"”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wise, Wisdom, Science

  1944 Time Must Have a Stop

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• Back in the day, we sampled Portishead on Nocturnal, that song "Proud" we sampled Portishead. And we used to have the [Dummy] album, 'cause Da Beatminerz put me onto the album. I had the album, every time I played it, I had this dude like, "Yo man." He thought I was so ill 'cause I listened to Portishead. "You're different, man."

  Sean Price

  Song, Men, Different

  Source: hiphopdx.com

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• Somewhere, there's someone who's masturbation ritual ends with them setting up ventriloquist dummies facing the bed. I mean, someone else.

  Dana Gould

  Mean, Bed, Masturbation

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Aug 04, 2013

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• First of all, you have to born with a brain. I mean, you can't be a dummy and say I'm going to become a multi-billionaire some day. But, more than anything else, you have to love what you do, and beyond that, you can't ever give up.

  Donald Trump

  Giving Up, Mean, Brain

  "The Donalds' TV makeover". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. April 17, 2004.

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