Idiot Quotes - Page 12

• To make a poem, take one newspaper, one pair of scissors, snip the words one by one and put them in a bag. Shake gently, draw them out at random, and copy them conscientiously... DADA est mort. DADA est idiot. Vive DADA!

  Tristan Tzara

  Bags, Pairs, Newspapers

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• I really hate being sick. It seems inevitable that at one point, one of these predicted epidemics is going to be real. So often they come up, and there's people like me that are freaked out, and the majority of people are just like, "You're being idiots, this happens every other year."

  Chuck Klosterman

  Real, Hate, Epidemics

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Build a company that idiots could run because eventually they will.

  Keith Rabois

  Running, Company

  "How To Start A Startup". Y Combinator’s CS183B Stanford Class. Lecture 14: How to Operate,

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• One of the unwritten rules in a presidential news conference is that he'll answer questions. If he chooses not to, there's not much you can do about it other than make yourself look like an idiot screaming, which to me is counterproductive.

  Gwen Ifill

  Presidential, Looks, News

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Two, Glasses

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I call this the Fundamental Problem of Political Economy. How do we limit the power that idiots have over us? ... [Milton] Friedmans insight is that a market limits the power that others have over us; conversely, limiting the power that others have over us allows us to have markets. Friedman argued that no matter how wise the officials of government may be, market competition does a better job of protecting us from idiots.

  Arnold Kling

  Wise, Jobs, Government

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• Knowledge can never replace friendship. I prefer to be an idiot!

  Patrick Star

  "SpongeBob SquarePants/ Patrick SmartPants/SquidBob TentaclePants". Animation, Comedy, Family, October 2005.

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• I was an idiot when I was a kid.

  Kobe Bryant

  Kids

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• Most new trainers agonize over the perfect workout, over-train virtually everyone and are the crazy purist idiots who embarrass themselves at restaurants trying to impress everyone with how clean they eat.

  Dan John

  Workout, Crazy, Perfect

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• I kinda feel like an idiot sometimes. Although I am an idiot, so it kinda works out.

  Adam Sandler

  Work Out, Sometimes, Feels

  "Fictional character: Billy Madison". "Billy Madison", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, "Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?" I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working.

  Peter Sellers

  Drama, Mean, Thinking

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

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• You're an idiot. Study harder.

  Hideaki Anno

  Study, Harder

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• The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing to admit. I don't know that I'd ever planned to be in this situation. I'm still just an idiot, really really stupid. It's not like I'm now a genius because this has happened. I just got hugely lucky.

  Ty Burrell

  Stupid, Careers, Lucky

  Source: deadline.com

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• Only an idiot would doubt my return

  Kobe Bryant

  Doubt, Return

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• [Michelle Malkin] has been supporting a party which includes most of the idiots in this country who would judge her entirely and exclusively on her [Filipino] appearance.

  Keith Olbermann

  Country, Party, Judging

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• I like Irish pubs, except for all the loud music and drinking, and people acting like idiots.

  Dov Davidoff

  Drinking, People, Acting

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 21, 2011

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• The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.

  Christian Finnegan

  Intelligent, Intelligence, Facts

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• I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

  Godfrey

  Smart, Thinking, Academia

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• At the beginning, people laughed at me because I was using snappies. Sometimes, a celebrity would look at my camera and go, Oh, I've got one of those. I'd feel like handing it to them and saying, Well, you take the pictures then. But I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

  Terry Richardson

  People, Cameras, Looks

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• I think Anderson Cooper is an opinionated, hypocritical idiot who should be an adult and keep his opinion to himself.

  Dina Lohan

  Thinking, Adults, Opinion

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• I don't let [my friends] visit me filming and I don't bring them to premieres. It's a different head zone - when I'm on set, I'm working. When I'm just with my friends, I can just hang out, do normal stuff and generally be a complete idiot. It's the same with everyone.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Stuff, Normal, Different

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• I look forward to the day when a mongolian idiot, treated biochemically, becomes a successful geneticist.

  Jerome Lejeune

  Successful, Looks, Treated

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• Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

  Edith Hamilton

  Men, Names, Greek

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• Any idiot, especially one who is prepared to die, who has a gun, can start shooting up people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Gun, People, Shooting Up

  "Bernie Sanders on politics, Clinton and guns". Interview with Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2015.

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• You don't have to think exactly like me. When people go, "I don't agree with everything you say," you know what, if you agree with everything anyone says, you're an idiot.

  Stephanie Miller

  Thinking, People, What If

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 22, 2006.

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