I Was Stupid Quotes

• I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't like eating fish and I know that's very popular out there in Africa.

  Britney Spears

  Stupid, Japan, Eating

  "Did I say that?" compiled by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2008.

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• Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

  Brooke Shields

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising, 25 June 1981

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• Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea.

  Jessica Simpson

  Stupid, Tuna Fish, Sea

  "Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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• You know, it really doesn`t matter what the media write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, Stupid, Writing

  "Would God Be So Good?" by Barry Friedman, www.esquire.com. July 29, 2013.

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• I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

  David Beckham

  Funny, Soccer, Football

  "Together by Richard Sennett - review" by Nicholas Lezard, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2013.

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• There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Humorous

  "Political Gaffes to Spark Any Party". Interview with John Ydstie, www.npr.org. November 5, 2006.

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• Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

  Ivana Trump

  Funny, Stupid, Inspiration

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• Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Humorous

  George W. Bush's remarks on teaching American history and civic education at East Literature Magnet School in Nashville, Tennessee, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 17, 2002.

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• I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

  Cameron Diaz

  Funny, Stupid, Dumb

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• I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Marriage, Stupid, Gay

  "Schwarzenegger on abortion, gays, environment". edition.cnn.com. August 28, 2003.

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• Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

  Mariah Carey

  Funny, Money, Stupid

  "The X Factor - Mariah Carey night - LIVE!!!" by Heidi Stephens, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2008.

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• It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.86, Open Road Media

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• So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

  Christina Aguilera

  Funny, Movie, Stupid

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• I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me. I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that.

  Kami Garcia

  Hurt, Giving Up, Stupid

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• Back then it was a different culture. It was very loose. I was young. I was stupid.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Stupid, Different, Culture

  "Rodriguez: 'Sorry and deeply regretful'". Interview with Peter Gammons, www.espn.com. February 9, 2009.

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• I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Stupid, Thinking

  Plato (1970). “Great dialogues of Plato”, Plume

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• It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.

  Sharon Creech

  Stupid, Silence, Speech

  Sharon Creech (2012). “Chasing Redbird”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• I didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me. I started totally free and crazy and innocent. Now I've seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don't do commercials, I don't do films pre-prepared by other people, I don't do star system. So I do my own little thing.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Crazy, Stupid

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I WAS YOUNG!! I WAS STUPID.. YOU TOLD ME GIRLS BOUGHT THAT MAGAZINE!!

  Shawn Michaels

  Girl, Stupid, Wrestling

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• At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

  Jules Feiffer

  Wise, Confused, Stupid

  "Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, Second Edition". Book edited by William H. McNeill, Jerry Bentley and David Christian, April 30, 2010.

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• You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stupid, Mean, Parent

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.322, Scholastic Inc.

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• I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

  Benjamin Carson

  Stupid, Agreement, Students

  "Saving America: Dr. Benjamin Carson's fight for real change". "Hannity", www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2013.

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• Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

  Danica McKellar

  Teacher, Stupid, Home

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