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.
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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.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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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.
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I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
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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.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
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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.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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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.
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While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
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I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
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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.
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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.
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Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.
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People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.'
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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.
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We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.
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Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.
