"You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it."
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"Day 1 -- Still tired from the move. Day 2 -- Everybody talks to me like I'm an idiot."
"Even the idiot may have a message for us"
"I fell in love. It was a great thing to be in love. I was a complete idiot in love."
"One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich."
"It's wonderful to be hated by idiots."
"I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant."
"I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be."
"Nigel Farage and Sean Hannity is like a super group of idiots."
"There are idiots in every crowd."
"I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me."
"There are only two types of motorists: the idiots who drive slower than me, and the lunatics who go faster."
"When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots."
"The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it."
"All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots."
"Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign."
"Coming to the end of a long shot is brutal so when it's just me, if I mess up I can be like "Sorry. I'm an idiot. Let's go again"."
"The law is an ass, an idiot."
"I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!"
"I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will."