Honore de Balzac Quotes
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There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.
Adam Mansbach
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
Larry Kramer
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
Walter Kirn
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I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
Edmund Waller
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It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
Randall Terry
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There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.
Ted Cruz
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell
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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
Walter Murch
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While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
Frances Bean Cobain
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I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
Pat Nixon
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.
Sam Smith
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O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.
William Wordsworth
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To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
Karl Malone
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I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.
William S. Burroughs
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The main difference between marketing and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol.
Scott Adams
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Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.
Honore de Balzac