Stooges Quotes

• I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

  Paula Poundstone

  Witty, Clever, Mean

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• I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

  Lester Bangs

  Couple, Mean, Independent

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

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• I'm positive about the negative, but a little negative about the positive.

  Curly Howard

  Negative, Littles, Three Stooges

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• A simple job for simple people.

  Curly Howard

  Jobs, Simple, People

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• If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

  Curly Howard

  Persistence, Succeed, Firsts

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• Every time you think, you weaken the nation.

  Moe Howard

  Thinking, Three Stooges, Nations

  "Fictional character: Moe". "Pardon My Backfire", www.imdb.com. 1953.

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• I got sick of the dough and thought I'd go on the loaf.

  Curly Howard

  Hair, Sick, Goes On

  "Fictional character: Operator 15". "Uncivil Warriors", www.imdb.com. 1935.

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• Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon.

  Curly Howard

  Hair, Three Stooges, Well Being

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• All for one; one for all.

  Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

  Witty, Humorous, Unity

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• I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!

  Curly Howard

  Air, Land, Arrows

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• There's a thousand reasons why I shouldn't drink... but I can't think of one right now.

  Shemp Howard

  Drinking, Thinking, Drunk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't you dare hit me in the head, you know I'm not normal!

  Curly Howard

  Normal, Three Stooges, Dare

  "Fictional character: Curly". "Loco Boy Makes Good", www.imdb.com. 1942.

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• Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.

  Mariano Rivera

  Kids, Littles, Three Stooges

  Interview with George A. King III, nypost.com. September 21, 2011.

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• I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Pops, Pop Music

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• The Bushwhackers are living proof that the Three Stooges had children

  Gorilla Monsoon

  Children, Wrestling, Three

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• The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Air, People, Giving

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• I started watching The Stooges religiously and obsessively when I was probably about four or five years old till around the age of 18.

  Chris Diamantopoulos

  Years, Age, Four

  "'The Three Stooges' Moe: Q&A with Chris Diamantopoulos". Philippine Daily Inquirer Interview, pop.inquirer.net. October 2, 2012.

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• Everybody thinks that 2-D is Damon, but none of the characters are based on any of us. 2-D is the classic stupid pretty boy singer. He's the fall guy, the stooge. Everyone takes the piss out of him. He had a car accident where he went through the windscreen and ended up with two bumps on his head. It knocked some cool into him

  Jamie Hewlett

  Stupid, Fall, Character

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• I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.

  John Varvatos

  Bird, Band, Zeppelins

  "Hot Tracks: John Varvatos". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. October 2013.

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• I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in 'The Nutty Professor'. I really liked that.

  Mike Judge

  Saws, Professors, Late

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• What else don’t women like besides the Three Stooges? Tom Waits. Being hurt physically or emotionally.

  Julie Klausner

  Hurt, Waiting, Three

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• They're living proof that the 3 stooges had children.

  Bobby Heenan

  Children, Wwe, Proof

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• A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.

  Stone Gossard

  Country, Simplicity, Degrees

  "From Ticketmaster to Trees: An Interview With Pearl Jam Guitarist Stone Gossard". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. October 17, 2008.

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• The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Air, People, May

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• If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

  Confucius

  Way, Rich, Honorable

  Confucius (1998). “The Analects”, Counterpoint LLC

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