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If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

I was pretty awkward when I was young, but I was never afraid of putting myself out there. I would say stupid things but then they would laugh at me and possibly find it endearing.

I can't lie, I did a lot of really, really stupid things, and it was because it was my way of crying for help.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.

I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

If you're buying an album because of the face on it, you're stupid.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.

I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.

It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.

My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.

People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.

I'm not going to put my energy into dunking every time I get the ball. That's stupid.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.'

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of the room. I hated all the attention, which is such a stupid thing for an actor to say.

General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

I don't care what people think. people are stupid.

I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.

I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.

I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid.

My life is brillant, My love is pure.

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.

I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

I can kick your head off, but I can't, like, play a stupid little video game.

Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are.

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.

So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!

Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

Stop using the word 'bromance.' Can we please kill that stupid term? We're just friends. It's called friendship!

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.