"Out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid."
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"The best things in life are silly."
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"One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity."
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"I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before 'thin'. And frankly, I'd rather they didn't give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. Let them never be Stupid Girls."
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"A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid."
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"We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal."
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"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring."
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"If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid."
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"Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?"
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"I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid."
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"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
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"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."
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"Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool."
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"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men."
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"I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly."
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"If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be. Kant in this respect almost alone among the philosophers was much bothered by the common opinion that philosophy is only for the few, precisely because of its moral implications."
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"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it."
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"[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit."
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"Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life."
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"The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing."
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