Bisco Hatori Quotes

Romantic Egoist What's better, an idiot who never tries... or an idiot who at least takes a shot?

Bisco Hatori

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• I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • School
  • Together
  • Boy

• I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Business
  • Look
  • Idiot

• I'm a one-man idiot.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Idiot
  • One-Man

• I learned early on – I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I'll look like an idiot because I didn't say I don't like it. It's OK to have an opinion.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Learned

• If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Real
  • Running
  • Problem

• He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Nature
  • Mystery
  • Idiot

• Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Funny
  • Sound
  • Idiot

• I don't know anything about making movies. I'd never been on a film set. I'm really kind of an idiot when it comes to figuring out where objects are in space. If they're both moving, I can't do the math. If you ever see me driving down a road, go somewhere else quickly.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Kind
  • Space
  • Moving

• What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Answers
  • Idiot

• Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Two
  • Three
  • Idiot

• If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Genius
  • Birth
  • Idiot

• That's not to say that I'm a well-informed Catholic. I'm still in idiot.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Catholic
  • Stills
  • Wells

• Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Said
  • Half
  • Fine

• It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Writing
  • Feelings
  • Emotional

• My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Music
  • Study
  • Idiot

• Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Failing

• Even in my dreams, I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Reality
  • Dreams
  • Idiot

• I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Thinking
  • Listening
  • Honesty

• It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

  

  Epictetus
  • Opinion
  • View
  • Affronts

• We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Powerful
  • Fighting
  • Honor

• I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Remember

• People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious. "Ah, yes, that's electronic music." But they don't realize that so is the concept of actually taking a piece of extant music and literally re-collaging it, taking chunks out and changing the dynamics radically and creating new rhythmic structures with echo and all that. That's real electronic music, as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Realize

• Romantic Egoist What's better, an idiot who never tries... or an idiot who at least takes a shot?

  

  Bisco Hatori
  • Idiot
  • Egoist
  • Never Tries