Idiot Quotes - Page 7

• I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Successful, Ifs

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• The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Thinking, Self

  What I've Learned: Salman Rushdie" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2005.

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• Any idiot can build bombs. Our Trinity sits not on some desert sand seared into glass at an abandoned, sad pillar of stones. It's in our heads and our hearts, it's in our genes, this beautiful, gorgeous marriage of money, freedom and ingenuity.

  Bill Whittle

  Beautiful, Heart, Glasses

  "Trinity (part 2)". Post by Bill Whittle in blog ejectejecteject.com, July 4, 2003.

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• It never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his fate right between her palms - me, in patched hand-me-downs and untrimmed hair and idiot smile - and that my hatred for him is pure and black and unforgiving. And that I don't believe in God, but if I did, if I did, it would be the God of Moses, angry and demanding and OUT FOR REVENGE.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Revenge, Believe, Fate

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• Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Literature, Bees

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• An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

  Aristophanes

  Law, Athens, Ancient

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• I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

  Kobe Bryant

  Badass, Long, Bunch

  Bill Oram‏ @billoram, twitter.com. October 16, 2014.

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• If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.

  Sacha Guitry

  Genius, Birth, Cigar

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• The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you get rid of one idiot, another will show up to take his place. It's the curse of humanity.

  Larry Winget

  Reality, Humanity, World

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.89, Penguin

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• More idiots should just shut their mouths.

  Chris Martin

  Village Idiots, Mouths, Should

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• Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Drinking, Beer, Intellectual

  Ray Bradbury (1955). “THE OCTOBER COUNTRY”

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• Ideology is the science of idiots.

  John Adams

  Ideology

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• If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot.

  Ted Nugent

  Upset, Might, Ifs

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• The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and frightening in the Middle Ages. But the tradition of artists will continue no matter what form the society takes. And this is another reason to write: people need us, to mirror for them and for each other without distortion-not to look around and say, 'Look at yourselves, you idiots!,' but to say, 'This is who we are.

  Anne Lamott

  Mean, Writing, Dark

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.234, Anchor

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• There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Two, Action

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 16, 2014

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• Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.

  Meg Ryan

  Moving, Knowing, Brave

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• The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Strong, Fighting, Opponents

  "Sharon’s Last Option" by Martin Van Creveld, www.counterpunch.org. November 16, 2002.

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• The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Stupid People, Intelligence, Wonder

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• The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dirty, Long Ago, Pigs

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• I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Country, Business

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• Thanks to the Internet, people we might have only suspected of being idiots can now give us ample evidence.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Technology, People

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• I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Drama, Character, Failing

  "Interview: Chuck Palahniuk on 'Choke'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. September 24.

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• Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Real, Broken, Passionate

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

  Patricia Briggs

  Fear

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• Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Income, Favour

  1928 The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.

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