Quotes with idiot

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  • Anthony Bourdain I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.
    Anthony Bourdain
    American celebrity chef, author and journalist (1956 - 2018)
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  • Horace Mann If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • C. Wright Mills If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.
    The British Journal of Sociology Structure of Power in America, Vol. 9 (March 1958)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Umberto Eco If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Warren Thomas It's relaxing to go out with my ex-wife because she already knows I'm an idiot.
    Warren Thomas
    American comedian (1957 - 2005)
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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  • Jim Rohn Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Mark Twain Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Leo Durocher Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
    Leo Durocher
    American professional baseball player, manager and coach (1905 - 1991)
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  • Adam Duritz Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
    Adam Duritz
    American musician and record producer (1964 - )
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  • Mark Twain Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The 100% American is 99% idiot.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Salvador Dali The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • William S. Gilbert The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Carl Bernstein The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Dave Barry The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • William Hazlitt There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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