Idiot Quotes - Page 13

• I don't think the war is going to end, but the war is just going to change. So we talk about change all the time, well that's what's going to change. You know, we tried having an idiot try and justify the war and give us these rationales and now we're going to have a very articulate and capable black man say it.

  Immortal Technique

  War, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I wasn't always a revolutionary, I used to live life like a criminal even though I was going through high school or college, or the fact that I was smart, had no bearing on that. People can have intelligence all the way but have no direction. Not all criminals are idiots.

  Immortal Technique

  Smart, Live Life, School

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• There are so many things that you think will look cool but then you look like an idiot!

  Anne Burrell

  Thinking, Looks

  "Anne Burrell Cooks In Chicago". Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. June 28, 2015.

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• General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

  William Blake

  General Knowledge

  "Annotations to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds" (ca. 1798 - 1809)

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• Led Zeppelin is just a bunch of stupid idiots who wrote cool riffs.

  Chris Cornell

  Stupid, Zeppelins, Bunch

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• The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Intelligent, Men, Half

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.93, Random House

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• [My hair] creates this Tarzanesque, likeable bad-boy image. It says, 'I am a wild child. I will take you on a Harley ride, then make passionate love to you. And should you be attacked by a lion or an idiot at a bar, I will protect you.'

  Bret Michaels

  Children, Boys, Hair

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• I'm not an idiot; I try not to look, but I see what people say about me on Facebook. I see other things written. But I don't care.

  Lindsey Vonn

  People, Trying, Looks

  "Lindsey Vonn Opens Up About Tiger Woods Relationship". The New York Times Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2013.

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• At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  War, Savages, Miserable

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.9, University of Georgia Press

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• We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Horse, Silly, Boys

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• For those that don't know much about 'American Idiot' or Green Day, just know that it's my generation's The Who's 'Tommy' or Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' It was an album that really spoke to a generation. The theatrical show encapsulates that feeling and brings it to an even wider audience.

  Jake Epstein

  Wall, Feelings, Green

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• Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself.

  Kathleen Parker

  Mother, Should Have, League

  Interview with Howard Kurtz, transcripts.cnn.com. October 5, 2008.

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• For all the good things it has brought our society, the Web has also fostered ideological hermits, who only talk to folks who believe exactly what they do. This creates an echo chamber that only further convinces people that they are right, and everyone else is not only wrong, but an idiot or worse. So when an incident like this one arises, it's not enough to point out an error; they must prove that the error had nefarious origins. In some places on the Web, everything happens on a grassy knoll.

  James Brady

  Believe, Errors, Echoes

  "Blog Rage" by James Brady, www.washingtonpost.com. February 12, 2006.

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• Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.

  Peter Lynch

  Running, Someday

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• I did large drawings of couples having sex! Men and woman enjoying intercourse and oral sex in a Madison Avenue Gallery? That was the first time I broke a barrier that made me think, some idiot is going to blow my brains out for sure.

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Couple, Thinking

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago and all I did was cuss. I can do that without the walk, cuss at Congress and let [Mark]Twain do it. "Imagine that you were an idiot. And then imagine that you were a member of Congress. Wait - I've repeated myself."

  Hal Holbrook

  Golf, Years, Play

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So I try not to let the research become an excuse to not do the writing part.

  Zachary Lazar

  Fun, Writing, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When somebody asks me "What are your comic books about?" or "What are your songs about?" there is no answer and I feel like an idiot not having an answer, like I don't know what I am making. I really do know what I'm making, but it's not one thing, it's everything I like, and I see no reason to leave out any of that.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Book, Answers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is generally an idiot compared to the adult you. That's the way it should be. If it's the other way around, you have a problem.

  Emma Forrest

  Teenage, Self, Wish

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• I know I'm going to sound like an idiot, because I actually think that everybody's the nicest guy ever, but I'm telling you: George Clooney, Roland Emmerich, Sidney Lumet - these are literally the nicest people.

  Peter Jacobson

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I smoked for many years like a total idiot.

  Jami Attenberg

  Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I thought, giving Jeb Bush the benefit of the doubt all these years, that he was sitting, saying, what a numbnut, what an idiot. My brother's a fool. He's listening to these neocons that talked him into this war. Dad would have never done this.

  Chris Matthews

  Brother, Dad, War

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I get emails from strangers every day asking for love advice, which is kind of counter-intuitive since I'm making a movie about what an idiot I am with relationships.

  Davy Rothbart

  Advice, Asking, Email

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When these idiot rightwingers start complaining about poetry being political, I'm fond of reciting Sappho to them, who excluded men from her world. Why does she exclude them? Mostly because of their warmongering.

  Sam Hamill

  Men, Political, Doe

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that?

  Will Oldham

  Mean, Sometimes, More Money

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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