Idiot Quotes - Page 19

• You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Funny, Pain, People

  "Terry Bradshaw bares all in 'Failure to Launch'". www.today.com. March 9, 2006.

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• You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking.

  Sandra Bullock

  Looks, Brown, Ifs

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• Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

  William S. Burroughs

  Fate, Water, Suffering

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• So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

  Lee Child

  Jobs, Reading, Writing

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• Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.

  Chuck Close

  Artist, Vegas, Concerned

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• I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

  Sean Connery

  Light, People, Hollywood

  "Connery fed up with Hollywood 'idiots'". www.dailymail.co.uk. August 1, 2005.

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• We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  People, Personality, Lows

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.97, Transaction Publishers

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• Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

  Ann Coulter

  Birthday, Philosophical, Swings

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

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• I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

  Sloane Crosley

  Zero, Mean, Skills

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.24, Penguin

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• I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.

  Paloma Faith

  Family And Friends, Acting, Problem

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• Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Real, Fighting, Atlanta

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• I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.

  Will Ferrell

  Guy, Looks, Macho

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• I always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, 'Look at that idiot!' That's how I got over being shy.

  Will Ferrell

  Crazy, College, Shy

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• My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Believe, People

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• I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Creative, Lazy, Idlers

  "How To Be Idle". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.

  Mark Hoppus

  Loyalty, Jobs, Team

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• I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

  Joshua Jackson

  Hate, Stress, Stupid

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

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• Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

  Artie Lange

  Insulting, Sound, Want

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.

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• I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!

  Chris Martin

  Running, Yoga, Skinny

  "The importance of being earnest". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2005.

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• We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.

  Helen Mirren

  Thinking, Should, Young

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

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• It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

  Viggo Mortensen

  Needs, Helping, Controversial

  "Viggo Mortensen, King of The Road". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 23, 2009.

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• I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

  Ted Nugent

  Dog, Hate, Hunting

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• There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Add, Process, Fund

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• I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Stupid, Stuff, Caskets

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

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• What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who's good-looking; if they open their mouths and they're an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.

  Patton Oswalt

  Beautiful, Thinking, Mouths

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