Stupid Quotations | Page 3

It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums.

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to.

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

Don't let anyone tell you your ideas are stupid or the thing you feel most passionate about 'won't work' - it's happened to me time and time again, and we find that if you push at what you think is interesting hard enough, you're probably right.

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

It makes you also realize, 'OK, I'm excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the best tennis player I think I can be,' but I don't waste my time on stupid stuff, you know what I mean.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

I always feel stupid giving advice since I've been married, what, a year? I can say this: Be in it for the long haul and just know there are going to be rough patches. No two people are the same, there are going to be areas where you just don't click

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - - both of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving.

I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could remember even half of them. But do not dwell on cock-ups, I say. You don't learn by your mistakes - at least I don't - so best to blunder on making fresh ones.

Because I'm no longer a pop star 24 hours a day, I'm no longer bogged down by the stupid stuff that used to cripple me. I don't bruise easily any more.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.

My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh.

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in

People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.

Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?

Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult,

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there's a lot more blood. They're obviously going to take the Halloween series in a different direction.

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

I am a dork in disguise; I love doing stupid stuff.