Idiot Quotes - Page 4

• Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

  Trey Parker

  Children, Smart, Thinking

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• I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

  Kristin Hersh

  Differences, Mind, Vapid

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• It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots

  Dan Fogelberg

  Albums, Shots

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• So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

  Todd Rundgren

  Thinking, People, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Years, Wit

  Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.46, Broadview Press

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• I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

  William Hung

  People, Laughing, Want

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• Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

  Billy Higgins

  Art, Kids, Culture

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• Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.

  Blake Edwards

  Doctors, Noses, Helping

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• There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Men, Advantage

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.492

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• I'm not afraid to look like an idiot on TV.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Reality, Looks, Not Afraid

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 20, 2016.

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• In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Science, Men, Done

  "More Random Walks in Science". Book by Robert L. Weber, p. 109, 1982.

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• The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Hurt, Pain

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 22, 2014

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• April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Spring, Flower, April

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

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• The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Country, Tone, Praise

  The Mikado act 1 (1885)

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• A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Zoos, Animal, Royal

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1982). “Dialogues”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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• I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

  George W. Bush

  Crazy, Believe, Men

  "Fox News Sunday" with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 3, 2003.

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• You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

  Carly Fiorina

  Crazy, Believe, Men

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• Every once in a while I play a true idiot, and they're really fun to play.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Fun, Play

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

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• Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

  Adam Duritz

  Yelling, Echoes, World

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• When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

  Mark Twain

  World, Proof, Made

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• I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

  Rube Goldberg

  Depression, Thinking, Littles

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• There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Inspirational, Life, Women

  "Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics". "The Village Voice" Magazine, 1983.

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• I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Work, Addresses

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• And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

  Alan Rickman

  Destiny, Government, People

  "Interview: Alan Rickman on “Nobel Son”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. December 4.

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• Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Stars, Looks, Way

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