Idiot Quotes - Page 39

• I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

  Alec Baldwin

  Wind, Language, Speak

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• America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot.

  Eric Stonestreet

  America, Speech, Able

  "Golden Globes 2012: 'Modern Family' Stars Criticize Anti-Gay Protesters, Defend Show" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 15, 2012.

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• Yet, for I know thou art religious
  And hast a thing within thee called conscience,
  With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies
  Which I have seen thee careful to observe,
  Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know
  An idiot holds his bauble for a god
  And keeps the oath which by that god he swears,
  To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow
  By that same god, what god soe'er it be,
  That thou adorest and hast in reverence,
  To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up,
  Or else I will discover naught to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Religious, Art, Boys

  William Shakespeare (1824). “The Dramatic Works, Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens and Isaac Reed”, p.697

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• I've never really taken myself seriously as an actor, It is surprising the amount of people who think I'm going to be really dumb. I think they think anyone who has done teen movies is just an idiot. I don't know, maybe I am. Some of the best actors, if you talk to them, they're not the smartest people in the world.

  Robert Pattinson

  Taken, Thinking, People

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• I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part of causing us to stop helping the South Vietnamese. Now look what's happening. They're getting killed by the millions. Murdered by the millions. How the hell can she and her husband sleep at night?

  John Wayne

  Husband, Sleep, Night

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• A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

  Milos Zeman

  Wings, Dangerous, Right Wing

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• God preserve me from idiots and men in love, which is the same thing.

  M. V. Heberden

  Men, Preserves

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• Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

  Mark Twain

  Politics, Imagine, Congressman

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• One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet so futile. There is no villain, no idiot, no saint. There are just men; men who crave ease and power, men who know want and hunger, men who have crawled. They all dream and strive with ecstasy of fear and strain of effort, balked of hope and hate. Yet the rich world is wide enough for all, wants all, needs all. So slight a gesture, a word, might set the strife in order, not with full content, but with growing dawn of fulfillment. Instead roars the crash of hell.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dream, Hate, Simple

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2013). “Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880”, p.650, Transaction Publishers

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• Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Unfortunate, Knows

  Walter Dean Myers (2013). “Darius & Twig”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Flower, Cups, April

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.148, eBookIt.com

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• Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

  Thomas Sowell

  Tragedy, Village Idiots, Genius

  "Roberts betrayed his oath". The St. Augustine Record, July 5, 2012.

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• People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mistake, People, Soul

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• A lot of people voting for Pat Buchanan say they are doing so to send a message. Apparently that message is, 'Hey, look at me, I'm an idiot.'

  Dennis Miller

  People, Voting, Looks

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• There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women.

  Nora Roberts

  Men, Thinking, Stubborn

  Nora Roberts (2001). “Dance Upon the Air”, p.256, Penguin

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• I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

  Helen Garner

  Dream, Writing, Self

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• The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

  H. L. Mencken

  Superstitions, Belief, Respectable

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.121, Knopf

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• There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot.

  James M. Loy

  Luck, Chess, Opponents

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• We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise.

  Carolyn Parrish

  Wise, Joining, Coalitions

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• A straw enables you to drink without using your wrist. A straw is your friend - until you lose eye contact with the straw. Then it will betray you and make you look like an idiot.

  Demetri Martin

  Eye, Looks, Drink

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• What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days, in which the evening and morning were named, were without sun, moon and stars? What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise, in Eden, Like a Husbandman?

  Origen

  Morning, Stars, Men

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• New Rule: President Bush must stop acting like WE'RE the idiots. He gives speech after speech, and the theme is always the same; 'What part of freedom don't you get, you morons?'. I'll answer that for you Mr. President. The part where you give it to people by blowing them up.

  Bill Maher

  People, Giving, Acting

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• Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

  Pete Seeger

  Simple, Genius, Complicated

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• That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break. But you would have to be an idiot to believe that. The Constitution is not a living organism; it is a legal document. It says something and doesn't say other things.

  Antonin Scalia

  Believe, Years, Melting

  "Scalia Raps 'Living Constitution'". www.cbsnews.com. February 14, 2006.

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• There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

  Banksy

  Art, Confusing, Selling

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