Idiot Quotes - Page 25

• There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.

  Sean William Scott

  Tattoo, Makeup, Actors

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• Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Men, Copying, Generations

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• I thought Christians were walking idiots.

  Josh McDowell

  Christian, Walking

  "Josh McDowell and The Evidence of Christ". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

  Erik Naggum

  Tools, Done, Rewards

  "Can lisp do what perl does easily?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. March 28, 2000.

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• Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

  Bram Cohen

  Writing, Quality, Programming

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• The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire character; and, more often than not, he ends up becoming what the German language so appropriately calls a Fachidiot (professional idiot).

  Erwin Chargaff

  Character, Successful, Science

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• I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

  Brendan Fehr

  Character, Giving, Acting

  "Interview With The Vampires: The Cast Of The Forsaken". Interview With Steve Head, www.ign.com. May 4, 2001.

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• There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.

  Josh Gad

  Commitment, Tv Shows, Eyebrows

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• I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

  Calvin Harris

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Talking, Greed, Excess

  "He's all the rage" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2002.

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• I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

  Jonathan King

  Thinking, Voice, People

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• I don't get the jitters and I don't get nervous, because I build that comfort on set for myself. Sometimes if I'm gonna do something really crazy, it helps me to yell or look like an idiot on set, so that when I'm about to do a scene, I've already embarrassed myself. I find ways to work around getting the jitters.

  Logan Lerman

  Crazy, Looks, Jitters

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• People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Stupid, People, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

  Coolio

  Education, College, Graduates

  Song: The Winner

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• The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust... you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about this, but it's so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.

  Jason Calacanis

  Funny, Thoughtful, Care

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• When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

  Tom Perrotta

  Thinking, Genius, World

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• I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Editors, Agents, Letters

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• I don't have any jokes about my divorce or my ex-husband, who is a lovely person. It really is about how I was an idiot trying to push this guy to get married when I wasn't even sure if I wanted to.

  Jen Kirkman

  Husband, Divorce, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you're hiring, if you're the person doing the hiring, forgive a scar or two. Remember that when we were young, we were also idiots. There were just no cameras there to catch it.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Two, Forgiving, Cameras

  "Greg Gutfeld's advice for grads". www.foxnews.com. May 19, 2015.

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• Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.

  William Blake

  Art, Ignorance, Light

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.155, Wordsworth Editions

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• I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.

  Giordano Bruno

  Brave, Victory, Facts

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• Kylie Minogue is just a demonic little idiot as far as I'm concerned. She gets cool dance producers to work with her for some bizarre reason, I don't know why. She doesn't even have a good name. It's a stupid name, Kylie, I just don't get it.

  Noel Gallagher

  Stupid, Names, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Dog, Character

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• When you use sleep mask, no one's gonna recognize you. You're gonna look like an idiot, but it's so worth it.

  Nikki Glaser

  Sleep, Looks, Use

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there and think what an idiot you are and how anyone else could do this better than you can.

  Brian Helgeland

  Writing, Thinking, Suffering

  Source: collider.com

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