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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. - Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.Mark Twain
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There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.Steven Wright
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I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.Steven Wright
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This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.William Shakespeare
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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. - Anton Chekhov
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.Anton Chekhov
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To generalize is to be an idiot.William Blake
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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.Mark Twain
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.William Blake
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If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. - Johann Sebastian Bach
If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.Johann Sebastian Bach
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Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.Nicole Sullivan
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.Samuel Goldwyn
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I got caught up in 35 years of Saturday nights. Every night was like party night to me. As a young man, you can do that; it's OK to be an idiot. But I woke up one day, and I realized that 35 years had gone by.Steve Lukather
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I don't like Don Lemon, I think he was an idiot for what he said about women in their prime. But I don't think that Don Lemon should get fired.Clay Travis
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For some reason, we're brainwashed to think if you're not a thug or an idiot, you're not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don't break the law, you're not a good black person.Charles Barkley
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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.Cynthia Heimel
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It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience.Ezra Miller
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Kissing scenes are never romantic or sexy. They're actually super technical, like, 'Move your head; you're blocking her light,' or, 'Stop looking like an idiot when you kiss her.'Will Poulter
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It's nice to be on the periphery looking in. And to be an idiot. That's all right.Lee Evans
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Many people think I am an idiot. I think I am a genius.Charo
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I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.Dario Fo
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The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.Sid Caesar
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I'm not an idiot; I can make adjustments to my life. But I like having a schedule.Carson Wentz
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Even now while I'm acting on Broadway, I find myself saying things like, 'Well I'm not REALLY an actor, I'm more of a writer. I'm stupid. I'm an idiot.' Why do I do that? Because I'm insecure and I still feel like a fraud for not having any formal training. Not because I didn't want to but because I couldn't afford it.Cole Escola
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.John Lennon
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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.Douglas Adams
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Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.John McAfee
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You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.Stanley Kubrick
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.Charles Bukowski
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Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.Carl Hiaasen
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.Abe Lemons
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.Charlie Chaplin
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Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.Leonard Bacon
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I had a Taco Bell audition where I had to wear a huge sombrero and walk around like an idiot. I got call-backs for the movie 'Twister,' did small independent stuff that I won't name. But it led to all my breakthrough moments on 'Entourage.'Mark Cuban
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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don't get embarrassed by the same things that other people do. I would say that probably the biggest thing that holds people back is, 'If I do this, I'm going to look like an idiot if it doesn't work out.'Scott Adams
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I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.Anthony Bourdain
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There's only one way we're going to change our political climate and ensure we establish some respect in our discourse. And that is to show there is a real price to pay for being a disrespectful partisan idiot.Mark McKinnon
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.Banksy
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I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.Leo Szilard
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I am a self-destructive idiot. - Swara Bhaskar
I am a self-destructive idiot.Swara Bhaskar
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As a young ma,n I was an absolute idiot. I think my exes would say I was a likeable baby. I had a teenager's bedroom when I was 32.Greg Davies
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.K. Flay
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Trump is the white evangelicals' version of V.I. Lenin's 'useful idiot,' a character who is helping achieve their apocalyptic fever dreams, but who will perish along with the rest of us as the faithful perch in the clouds.Neil Macdonald
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Missing out an apostrophe or two does not make you an idiot. But equating party allegiance with nationhood certainly makes you a thug. And thugs don't often notice that they're thugs, usually because they're also idiots.Robert Webb
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Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?George Carlin
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There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.Scott Adams
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I think we need more idiot control.Frank Zappa
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Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.Peter Lynch
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.Salvador Dali
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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.Katharine Hepburn
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The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont., and I remember right after seeing them perform I started a band, and I wanted to get up in front of people and start performing. Ten years later, to be on the Green Day 'American Idiot' tour is really awesome.Jake Epstein
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You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.Terry Bradshaw
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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.Ozzy Osbourne
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People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'Chris Farley
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SpongeBob is a complete innocent - not an idiot. SpongeBob never fully realizes how stupid Patrick is. They're whipping themselves up into situations - that's always where the humor comes from.Stephen Hillenburg
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Katherine Parkinson has got a classics degree from Cambridge yet is an idiot - in the best possible way.Alex Horne
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I think there are different kinds of comedians, and I prefer the clowns who are going: 'I'm an idiot, aren't we all a bit like this, laugh at me.' Whereas, a lot of other comedians are saying: 'Aren't I clever? You want to be me, aren't I cool? Revere me.' Which is fine. But that's not my bag.Miranda Hart
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One of the big conversations I'm trying to have onstage right now is that to be pro-woman, you don't have to be anti-man. Saying all men suck makes you look like an idiot. And it's not helpful.Whitney Cummings
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I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable - for me - talent, which is being able to act.James Woods
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