Idiot Quotes - Page 24

• Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.

  Walter Cunningham

  Dream, Airplane, Men

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• Anybody who doesn't think that Hong Kong has to depend on the PRC (China) must be the biggest idiot on earth because you are talking about getting access to a 1.3 billion people market.

  Gordon Wu

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.

  David Robert Whitehouse

  Islands, Doe, Next

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• The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

  Alfred Jarry

  Artist, Unique, Theatre

  Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”

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• Since there are so many idiots out there, you may actually start to think you're crazy. You are not. They are idiots.

  Lewis Black

  Crazy, Thinking, May

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• In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple II, and in due course we'd unbox Mattel's Intellivision, instead of Atari's legendary gizmo. This was good training for a writer, for the sooner you accept the fact that you are a deluded idiot who is always out of step with reality the better off you will be.

  Colson Whitehead

  Reality, Apples, Years

  "A Psychotronic Childhood" by Colson Whitehead, www.newyorker.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

  Tom Clancy

  People, Complaining

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it?

  Larry Ellison

  Talking, Ideas, Cloud Computing

  "Oracle's Ellison Nails Cloud Computing". Oracle OpenWorld 2008 Speech, www.cnet.com. September 26, 2008.

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• The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?

  Larry Ellison

  Fashion, Talking, Ideas

  "Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman" by Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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• Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. And atheism is… precisely not that. Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Atheism, Belief

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• Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

  Alexander Grothendieck

  Children, Discovery, Privilege

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• If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

  Umberto Eco

  Things Change, Ifs

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• I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, 'Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot.'

  Michael Savage

  Father, Mean, Cutting

  "Bill Moyers Journal" interview, www.pbs.org. September 12, 2008.

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• I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.

  Brian Regan

  Growing Up, Bees, Spelling

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• God looks after children, animals and idiots.

  Lou Holtz

  Children, Animal, Looks

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• If i believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God - and i believe that there is one. i think God would appreciate what i say, because i can't see God wanting to create a world full of idiots

  Marilyn Manson

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

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• If you choose to become a smoker, you are an idiot, and you may lack the discipline and intelligence to be a successful entrepreneur.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Successful, Discipline

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• Anybody who doesn't have fear is an idiot. It's just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell when somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back.

  Robin Olds

  Military, Hell, Made

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• I go to dance clubs...about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'

  Bill Hicks

  Years, Clubs, Apartment

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• Your village just called. They're missing an idiot.

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Missing, Village

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• What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.

  John H. Johnson

  Knowledge, Relief, Disability

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• I have a problem with the strip that runs along the bottom of the news programs. Don't these idiots who run the news programs know we don't want to read? That's why we're watching TV.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Running, Watching Tv

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• Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Moving, Wind Blowing

  Song: Idiot Wind, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

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• Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Wind Blowing, Mouths

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• Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that.

  Tom Christiansen

  Window, Break, Unix

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