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"I don't even remember why I called myself an idiot. I can be very harshly critical of myself. It depends on my mood, and obviously it depends on where I am in my life. Yes, embracing myself - I'm working on that."
"Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots"
"I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty"
"The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can."
"Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot."
"Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?"
"The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves."
"When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots."
"The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole."
"Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot."
"I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot."
"A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation."
"Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons."
"I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person."
"At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see."
"If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness."
"Nothing is more intimidating than an idiotic grin worn by a manifest non-idiot."
"If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot."
"It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot."
"You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots."
