C. S. Forester Quotes
The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
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Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
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'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
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I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.
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I think making friends is not being afraid to look stupid, because everyone wants a friend who is willing to be stupid and fun. If you try and be too cool, it only works in high school. After that, being uncool is a very cool thing to do. So just have fun, and don't worry what other people think of you and people will want to be your friends.
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My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.
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I'd be stupid not to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ because it was tough out there and I was nervous, and I felt his presence all day.
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It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.
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There's a thin line between catering to the masses and making a fool of yourself; I try to walk that line.
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You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back.
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You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully designed, four color business book in landscape format - because it was contrary to the publishing industry logic. However, we thought of Business Model Generation as a product, not just a book - similar to Apple products.
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I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song 'Selfish.'
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To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.
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The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.
