Idiot Quotes - Page 40

• Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Boss, Insulting, Television

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• There are idiots. Look around.

  Lawrence Summers

  Looks

  "Inside the Crisis With Larry Summers & Co." by Ryan Lizza, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 5, 2009.

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• When enough people agree on something, I'd be an idiot, if I didn't listen.

  Harald Zwart

  People, Enough, Agree

  Source: collider.com

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• It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.

  William Faulkner

  Children, Emotional, Long

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• I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.

  Winston Churchill

  Arguing, Hundred, Agree

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• I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, One Day, Company

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• If the technology hadn't changed, they [newspapers] would still be great businesses. Network TV [in its heyday], anyone could run and do well. If Tom Murphy as running it, you'd do very well, but even your idiot nephew could do well. Fortunately, carbide cutting tools [such as those made by Iscar] don't have these types of substitutes.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Cutting, Technology

  Charlie Munger's advice on investing at the 2006 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 6, 2006.

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• The truth is that I'm an idiot. I am. I don't do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn't say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Fun, Buttons, Sometimes

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• After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Years, Television, Aliens

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.242, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.

  Mary Roach

  Imbeciles, England, Twenties

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.56, Canongate Books

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• Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Country, Dumb, Folks

  "15 Powerful Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Quotes To Make You Want To Read 'Between The World And Me'" by Aaron Barksdale, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2015.

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• Josh [Gad] does such an amazing job playing a lovable idiot. Not many people can do that, as convincingly as he can.

  Josh Gad

  Jobs, People, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• In real life, Josh [Gad] is a different kind of lovable idiot. In real life, he's a much filthier idiot. He has a dirty sense of humor.

  Josh Gad

  Real, Dirty, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I fell in love. It was a great thing to be in love. I was a complete idiot in love.

  Kid Rock

  Great Things

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.

  Rashida Jones

  Doe, Would Be, Comedy

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• I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

  Madonna Ciccone

  Age, Forty, Buffoons

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• I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror. Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart.

  Sviatoslav Richter

  Art, Real, Thinking

  "Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations". Book by Bruno Monsaingeon, 2001.

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• Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you distrust them, question your own assumptions.

  Rolf Dobelli

  Thinking, Assuming, Assumption

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• I always feel like an idiot every time I fly first class because I’m a kid. And I just sit there, and everyone’s got their newspapers and they’re on the computer, and I’m like, 'Can I get a coloring book, please? Can I get some crayons?'

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Book, Kids

  "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon", 2012.

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• My name's Darren. I'm a musician, part time idiot. That's a full time job actually.

  Darren Criss

  Jobs, Names, Musician

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• In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I'm such an idiot they now want me to run the network.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Book, Thinking

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• White boys always get the Oscar. It's a known fact. Did I ever get a nomination? No! You know why? Cause I hadn't played any of them slave roles, and get my ass whipped. That's how you get the nomination. A black dude who plays a slave that gets his ass whipped gets the nomination, a white guy who plays an idiot gets the Oscar. That's what I need, I need to play a retarded slave, then I'll get the Oscar.

  Eddie Murphy

  Boys, Play, White

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• There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show.

  Tim Robbins

  Clown, Shows, Diversion

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• Even in my dreams, I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.

  Tom Cruise

  Dream, Reality, Wake Up

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• I think audiences can relate to the guys I'm playing, those large-and-in-charge idiots. Or maybe I just make them feel better about who they are, or who they're dating.

  Rob Riggle

  Feel Better, Thinking, Dating

  "Rob Riggle: Why It's Okay to Laugh at Jerks". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. March 15, 2012.

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