"My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them."
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"Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match."
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"Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid."
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"I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights."
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"One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict."
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"Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it."
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"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men."
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"From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid."
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"It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas."
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"We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant."
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"It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring."
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"Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil."
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"The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward."
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"That's stupid. If anyone sees themselves in ten years they're lying to themselves first."
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"Don't be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone's bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don't hurt anybody, what's it matter how dopey your dream is? If I hadn't made TUSK? If I'd let it die as a podcast? I wouldn't have three other movies I'm now making within the span of a year. Some folks will try to shame you for trying something outside the norm; the only shame is in not trying to accomplish your dreams."
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"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge."
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"Bush had expertise in one thing: How to run a Presidential campaign. He understands campaigns and Presidential politics. He has no interest or disposition or I think probably - he's not stupid, but he's not bright, he's not a rocket scientist - he isn't interested in policy."
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"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."
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"Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly."
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"I like mindless disco... they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So what's wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious."
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