"A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay."
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"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker."
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"I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard."
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"We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge."
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"The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people."
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"I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"
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"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
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"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
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"Everything seems stupid when it fails."
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"People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer."
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"Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it."
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"I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off."
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"Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull."
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"One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to believe in it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else— the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film or speaker banned because otherwise he himself might be harmed."
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"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork."
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"The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods."
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"I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there."
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"The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism."
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"Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid."
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"It's stupid the way people extrapolate the past -- and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid."
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