Bertrand Russell Quotes
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.
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When I was a little girl, I told everyone I was going to marry a very clever scientist and have ten children. I would always draw the children, and they included blond-haired twin boys whom I named Theodore and Frederick: Teddy and Freddy for short.
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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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I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.
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The reason our games generate so much revenue is because we're stupid enough to charge $60 for a box or $50 for a download or something. You need used games because most people can't afford those prices.
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I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.
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If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.
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Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.
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They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.
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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.
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I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.
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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 don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They've all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working?
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I'm a striker; my job is to score goals.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.
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Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind.
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.
