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• I'm retarded - I mean I'm retired.

  Frank Serpico

  Mean, Retired

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• But I've often said that if I had – I have two dogs – if I had two retarded children, I'd be a hero. And yet the dogs, which are pretty much the same thing. What? They're sweet. They're loving. They're kind, but they don't mentally advance at all. Dogs are like retarded children.

  Bill Maher

  Dog, Sweet, Children

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• When I was a kid they didn't call it dyslexia. They called it you know, you were slow, or you were retarded, or whatever. What you can never change is the effect that the words 'dumb' and 'stupid' have on young people. I knew I wasn't stupid, and I knew I wasn't dumb. My mother told me that. If you read to me, I could tell you everything that you read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Mother, Stupid, Kids

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• I collect things that just look retarded.

  Ahmet Zappa

  Looks, Retard

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

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• Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded. ... We do not attempt to establish or prepare a prognosis and we leave unanswered the question of whether this retardation is curable, or even improveable. We shall limit ourselves to ascertaining the truth in regard to his present mental state.

  Alfred Binet

  Children, Science, Intelligent

  Alfred Binet (1977). “Works on Psychometrics”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• ...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

  James Crumley

  Morning, Children, Rose

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.184, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Sarcastic, Angel

  The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• If you judge a person by the company they keep, then I'm retarded.

  Chelsea Handler

  Judging, Judgment, Company

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• People say it's easy to make fun of retarded people, but it's not. You really have to explain it to them.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Fun, People, Easy

  Twitter post from Jul 27, 2010

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• Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

  Edward Abbey

  Football, Player, Games

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

  Diablo Cody

  Reality, Los Angeles, Function

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

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• I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar , were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

  Jacob Epstein

  Teacher, School, Drawing

  Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.10, Read Books Ltd

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• Islam is not a religion, it's an ideology, the ideology of a retarded culture.

  Geert Wilders

  Islam, Culture, Ideology

  "'I don't hate Muslims. I hate Islam,' says Holland's rising political star". Interview with Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2008.

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• The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Peace, Clever, War

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 14 Mar. 1955

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• We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care, we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, Play, Long

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• I love any movie that has a retarded person working at Starbucks.

  Chris Kattan

  Hilarious, Starbucks, Persons

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• Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim.

  Ilona Andrews

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.159, Penguin

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• I want a man as nice as my retarded dog, but one that doesn't crap on the floor.

  Laurie Notaro

  Dog, Nice, Men

  Laurie Notaro (2002). “The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life”, p.78, Villard

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• If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.

  Eugene Mirman

  Treasure, Pretending, Figures

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• I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.

  Nikola Tesla

  Jealous, Men, Law

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• Your Olympic Hero is scheduled to wrestle a match against the man they call the big red retard; not that I have anything against retarded people cause I don't. As a matter of fact, I have a lot of retarded fans out there that admire and respect your Olympic Hero, and I wish them well.

  Kurt Angle

  Hero, Men, Wwe

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• So asking you to take a moonlit walk with me, that would totally not work?" "What?" Again that glare. "Go away. Stop being an idiot. I don't even know you." "You're healing my little brother Bowie." "Yeah, that doesn't make us friends, kid." "So no moonlight." "Are you retarded?" "Sunrise? I could get up early." "Go away." "Sunset tomorrow?" -Sanjit & Lana

  Michael Grant

  Brother, Healing, Sunset

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• When you're not in love, when you don't have love, everybody you know falls in love.

  Dane Cook

  Falling In Love, People, Bags

  "Dane Cook: A Stand-Up Comic on the Rise". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. December 1, 2005.

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• Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Views, Color

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.161, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Classic, Kind, Pity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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