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• Newsreader: A huge asteroid could destroy Earth! And by coincidence, that's the subject of tonight's miniseries. Dogbert: In science, researchers proved that this simple device can keep idiots off your television screen. [TV remote control] Click.

  Scott Adams

  Science, Simple, Tonight

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• Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

  Edward Young

  Disease, Vain, Polite

  Edward Young, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edward Young: In Four Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.107

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• In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.

  John Locke

  Lying, Ideas, Differences

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.100

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• These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly what I'm hoping. It would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print.

  Scott Adams

  Real, Book, Trends

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

  Arthur Young

  Class, Poor, Knows

  "The Affordable Care Act Will Raise Wages" by Mary Manning Cleveland, www.huffingtonpost.com. Febriary 10, 2014.

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• Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.

  Scott Adams

  Wisdom, Flow, Way

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• What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?

  Ben Folds

  Kings, Stupid, Work Out

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I have always felt comfortable tapping into my inner idiot.

  Isla Fisher

  Felt, Tapping, Comfortable

  "Interview with Isla Fisher from “Confessions of a Shopaholic”". Interview with Julie Bonner, www.alloy.com. June 24, 2009.

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• The great thing about doing physical comedy for film is that if it doesn't work you're not exposed. It ends up on the editing room floor, so it gives you a lot more room to experiment I guess. But I really enjoy doing it. I'm very comfortable tapping into my inner idiot.

  Isla Fisher

  Editing, Giving, Rooms

  "Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment interview, movieweb.com. June 29, 2009.

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• When you're in morgue you're seeing life that no longer exists. It gives you an appreciation when you look someone in the eye, you shake their hand, and you hug your friends, your girlfriend, your family. It just gives you an appreciation for the life that surrounds you. At the same time you understand how fragile it is. That you don't need to be an idiot or get so angry at times.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Appreciation, Girlfriend, Eye

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I set myself that decision, otherwise I'm driving an opinion at you, and I think that would be treating you like you're an idiot. I don't want to force-feed you my opinion.

  Tom Hardy

  Thinking, Decision, Would Be

  "Bronson - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

  Mike Patton

  Thinking, Playing Music, Fantasy

  Interview with Gus Mastrapa, music.avclub.com. July 17, 2008.

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• It's a lonely world, being independent, and they can come away with the idea that if Lloyd Kaufman can make movies with people getting their heads squashed, with hard-bodied lesbians, women masturbating with pickles, graphic diarrhea, and singing and dancing chicken zombies - if he can do that for 40 years and put his kids through Yale, Columbia, and Duke - if that idiot can do it, anybody can do it.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Lonely, Kids, Independent

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• Kissing scenes are never romantic or sexy, they're actually super technical, like, "Move your head, you're blocking her light," or, "Stop looking like an idiot when you kiss her." You do it again and again because of the camera angles and takes and whatnot. So by the end of it, it's not even kissing. All the anything is totally drained out of it.

  Will Poulter

  Sexy, Block, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.

  Norm MacDonald

  Christian, Stupid, Writing

  "Norm MacDonald Has No Problem Paying O.J. Simpson Under the Table". Interview with Abram Sauer, www.esquire.com. April 12, 2011.

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• Don't let the idiots ruin your day.

  James de la Vega

  Ruins

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• ...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things, then tries to claim he never said them, there's no rule against calling him a mendacious idiot - and no special qualifications required to make that pronouncement other than doing your own homework.Conversely, if someone without formal credentials consistently makes trenchant, insightful observations, he or she has earned the right to be taken seriously, regardless of background.

  Paul Krugman

  Stupid, Taken, Ideas

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• Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.

  Nostradamus

  Home, Leader, Village Idiots

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• When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots.

  Stephen Hawking

  Proof, Made

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• Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Made, Copyright

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• The law is an ass, an idiot.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Ass

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• This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.

  John Calvin

  Fall, Anvils, Entertainment

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• This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

  Linus Torvalds

  Confused, Thinking, Disease

  Message to usability@gnome.org mailing list, mail.gnome.org. December 12, 2005.

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• I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person.

  Mike Tyson

  Neanderthals, Persons, Knows

  "Mike Tyson on Broadway" by Avi Steinberg, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2012.

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• Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure each sentence is at least four words longer or shorter than the one before it.

  Richard Hugo

  Needs, Four, Ugly

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