Stupidity Quotes - Page 40

• When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs he's teaching the angels right now? Good luck God! You've got your hands full this time.

  Terry Gilliam

  Song, Teaching, Good Luck

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• The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

  William Broad

  Missing, Majority, Mass

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• One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

  Alan Bradley

  Mind, Demand, Mark

  Alan Bradley (2014). “The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.74, Delacorte Press

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• Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Country, Technology, Men

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion.

  Robertson Davies

  Talking, Names, Noses

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995”

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• There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

  Oliver Sacks

  Doctors, Patient, Presumption

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “A Leg to Stand On”, p.96, Pan Macmillan

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• Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.

  Molly Ivins

  Taken, Writing, Years

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.9, Vintage

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• Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.

  Clive James

  Stupid, Men, Personality

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• What you guys want, I'm for.

  Dan Quayle

  Guy, Want, Fool

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• There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity

  Piero Scaruffi

  Inspirational, Limits, Humans

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• Target prices? How that works? I know quite a bit about farm policy. I come from Indiana, which is a farm state. Deficiency payments - which are the key - that is what gets money into the farmer's hands. We got loan, uh, rates, we got target, uh, prices, uh, I have worked very closely with my senior colleague, (Indiana Sen.) Richard Lugar, making sure that the farmers of Indiana are taken care of.

  Dan Quayle

  Senior, Taken, Keys

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• My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.

  Dan Quayle

  People, Grandfather, Saws

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• Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness.

  Dan Quayle

  Office, President, Vices

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• I felt like I was in charge.

  Dan Quayle

  Fool, Felt

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• You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Stupid, Men, Evil

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• The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, America, Important

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• It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Running, Children, Government

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 10, 2009.

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• It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.

  Prabal Gurung

  Reality, Trends, Return

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?

  Linda Hunt

  New York, Ideas, Acting

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• Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Italian, Common Sense, Political

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• What's the advantage to have hundreds of words to define stupidity, when the essence is always the same.

  William C. Brown

  Italian, Essence, Political

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• Invest in stupidity, its stocks never go down.

  William C. Brown

  Italian, Political, Crisis

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• The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

  William C. Brown

  Italian, Media, Political

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• In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate, naturally all inspired by the logic of the most severe, rigorous and atavistic stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Party, Views, Political

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• I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

  Steve Madden

  Greed, Arrogance, Guilty

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