Schmucks Quotes

• Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you".

  Steve Carell

  Ears, Said, Vans

  "Fictional character: Barry". "Dinner for Schmucks", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Laughter, Children

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• You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Dream, Hope

  Song: Imagine

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• We always think we are right, and - search as I have - there is no evil under the sun that somebody somewhere won't argue is actually a good, no idiocy that hasn't got its perfectly serious defenders, and no tyrant, past or present - no matter how bloody - without some bunch of zealot schmucks to defend him or his reputation till the last breath in their bodies - or preferably somebody else's.

  Clive Barker

  Past, Thinking, Tyrants

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• I'm not a schmuck. Even if the world goes to hell in a handbasket, I won't lose a penny.

  Donald Trump

  World, Pennies, Hell

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• A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people.

  Jackie Mason

  People, Disrespect, Term

  Source: spectator.org

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• I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

  Al Franken

  Ideas, Years, Support

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• There are more Democratic schmucks than there are Republican ones.

  Jackie Mason

  Republican, Democratic

  Source: spectator.org

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• My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

  Frank Miller

  Hero, Artist, Feelings

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• The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Snow, Four, Hundred

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• I don't care who wins because I go to sporting events to scream. It's the one place on the planet you can shout anything you want. You can bellow at will, and nobody will bother you. I yell things like, 'My life sucks! Dan Quayle is a schmuck! If I don't have sex soon, I'm going to explode!' Parents turn to their kids as I leave the stadium and go, 'Hey, there goes a great fan.

  Lewis Black

  Sex, Kids, Winning

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• I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

  George Clooney

  Dad, Dating, Television

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• Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

  Robert De Niro

  Kings, Night, Lifetime

  "Fictional character: Rupert Pupkin". "The King of Comedy", www.imdb.com. December 18, 1982.

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• I've tried the female thing. I was in a movie called Dinner for Schmucks a couple of years ago with Steve Carell and I created a female character for that movie. And after a few months of trying her out on the road it just didn't work. I mean, I can think like a terrorist, I can think like a white trash guy, I can even try and think like an African American, but I can't figure out how a woman.

  Jeff Dunham

  Couple, Character, Mean

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• It’s such a floating freak show. You get a bit older and you start to see what’s going on backstage in the collective psyche of this ridiculous industry. … Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I’m just another schmuck that they’re bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Please Me, Bored, Floating

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• Put two things together which have never been put together before, and some schmuck will buy it.

  George Carlin

  Two, Together, Consumerism

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• When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.

  Larry Wall

  Keys, Doubt, Poor

  Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant (2004). “Programming Perl: 3rd Edition”, p.605, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I'm not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando twobirds short of a dinner party....I know I'm pulling out of Houston with exactly forty-two Gentoo penguins, seventeen Jamaican land iguanas, four tuataras from New Zealand, and a pair of rare, civet-like mammals called linsangs. No more, no less.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Party, Land, Two

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• It’s the downside of a family business: anything good is because I’m somebody’s son; otherwise, I’m a schmuck.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Son

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• It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall Street and be a hero

  David Brooks

  Wall, Hero, Community

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• Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.

  Michael Reagan

  Dad, Littles, Knees

  Michael Reagan, Joe Hyams (1988). “On the outside looking in”, Zebra Books

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• Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

  William H. Macy

  One Day, Cheese, Wake Up

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• In my opinion, one of the biggest drawbacks about Sergio Leone films are the scores composed by Ennio Morricone. If [Leone] were as talented as I am, he would have made mixtapes for his movies instead of letting some schmuck write the soundtracks for him. But then if he were as talented as I am, he'd be Zach Braff. And have his own Grammy.

  Zach Braff

  Writing, Mixtapes, Opinion

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• I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Book, Kids, Community

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