Idiot Quotes - Page 35

• As a matter of fact I could beat you two with both my arms and my legs tied. I'll roll down this ramp and score myself a 7-10 idiot split!

  Chris Jericho

  Wrestling, Two, Legs

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• The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

  William S. Burroughs

  Fate, Ideas, Hysteria

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• The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though the intention has been protective, legislation has now gone so far that it may well be asked what purpose or plan there is or what possible outcome there can be from a system that confines the native within a legal status that has more in common with that of a born idiot than of any other class of British subject.

  Paul Hasluck

  Leadership, Class, Purpose

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• Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars.

  Dorothea Tanning

  Movie, Stars, Eye

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• This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.

  Kent Haruf

  Country, Crazy, Mean

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• I don't know if I'm particularly funny, I mean one of my legs is shorter than the other one, it makes everything look very awkward, so I can just pretty much look like an idiot, but I don't know whether I can be like witty. It could be a problem.

  Robert Pattinson

  Witty, Mean, Careers

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• Niall Quinn is a creep. The man's an idiot, a Mother Theresa.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Mother, Memorable, Men

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• A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.

  Martin Luther

  Book, Teaching, Writing

  John Calvin, Martin Luther (1991). “Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• Of course I know our economic growth can't match our population growth so of course I know we'll all get poorer until we get that number down - don't tell me, tell the other idiots!

  Bernard Chidzero

  Numbers, Growth, Population

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• All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Compassion, Government

  Mark Twain (1960). “Mark Twain and the Government”

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• But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have the "right" to make himself spiritually or rationally destitute or retarded when this corrupts the whole quality of the culture that we all together need and depend on? If anyone wants a cloistered and closed-minded life, an anti-aristic life, let him either go off and live among the wolves-or else join the community of like-minded idiots that (alas) compose and define the basic terms of modern society.

  Kenny Smith

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Men

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• Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach, if youve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that youve got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing inside a microwave and turning it on high for at least an hour, which if you do consider only goes to show what kind of idiot you truly are because microwaves are way too small for anyone, let alone you, to climb into.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Crush, Heart, Climbing

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• We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

  Carl Bernstein

  Fun, Stupid, Creating

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• If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

  Linus Torvalds

  Inspiring, Thinking, Inspire

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• Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Thinking, People, Quiet

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• Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish-to use a seamanly metaphor-to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Music, Song, People

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• One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.

  Georges Courteline

  Baby, Children, Two

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• I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Different, Genius

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. July, 6 2001.

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• Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. I implore you, send him back to his father and brothers, who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary. I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth.

  Groucho Marx

  Brother, Father, Years

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", 1933.

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• Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

  Clint Eastwood

  Easy, Enough, Position

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• Molly works because, while Watson is ‘the audience’, Molly is every woman of a certain age sitting at home on the settee fantasizing about running their hands through Benedict Cumberbatch's hair. ...Also, I think most people have experienced the agony and the ignominy of unrequited love. I’ve never thought Molly was an idiot. She just really, really loves him.

  Louise Brealey

  Running, Home, Unrequited Love

  "Louise Brealey: 'I don't think Molly is really Sherlock's type'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2012.

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• Agree with an idiot and you're only one step away from turning into one yourself.

  Dave Courtney

  Steps, Agree

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• The problem with improv is that you're letting an idiot tell you what to do.

  Dino Stamatopoulos

  Problem

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• Nothing is more intimidating than an idiotic grin worn by a manifest non-idiot.

  Eric Frank Russell

  Intimidating, Worn, Manifest

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• I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.

  Jackson Browne

  Struggle

  Song: The Pretender

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