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Pete Holmes Comedian
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"I'm trying to, with my stand-up and with the podcast, give people these little stupid things to give them happiness. I know that sounds lofty or like I'm starting a cult, but I kind of feel that way."

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Elliott Smith Musician
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"I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in"

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
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"The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"If you want to play the game and win, you've got to play 'full out.' You've got to be willing to feel stupid, and you've got to be willing to try things that might not work - and if they don't work, be willing to change your approach. Otherwise, how could you innovate, how could you grow, how could you discovery who you really are?"

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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
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"It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!"

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Jay-Z Rapper, Businessman
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"Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world."

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Edgerrin James Football Player
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"Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's something you can't control, and I don't like things I can't control. I worked too hard to have it taken away for something stupid. I ain't gonna be laughed at the way I used to laugh at those crackheads."

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
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"Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations."

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"If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!"

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Stan Lee Comic Book Writer, Editor
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"I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults. And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic... And those were all things I hated."

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator
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"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."

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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
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"[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time."

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