Fool Quotes
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Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!
Arthur Miller
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Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
David Brin
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I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.
Elmore Leonard
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Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.
Oscar Wilde
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I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.
Ben Barnes
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"You can educate a fool, but you can’t make him think. Education is too often about stuffing the brain rather than developing the mind."
Barry Farber
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The wisest fool in Christendom.
King James I
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Only a fool loves war. Or a man who has never seen it. The trouble is that the survivors forget about the horrors and remember only the battle lust. They pass on that memory, and other men hunger for it.
David Gemmell
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Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.
Haruki Murakami
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I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
James A. Garfield
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If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.
Frederick Buechner
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Be a clown, be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool, play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh.
Cole Porter
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It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.
William Mapother
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I thought I should be a fool to allow work to interfere with a delight in the passing moment that I might never enjoy again so fully.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.
Knute Rockne
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So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare
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Only a genius can play a fool.
Michael Rapaport
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To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.
Ray Bradbury
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For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate.
Mark Kirk
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
Francois Rabelais
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I asked him "Who said you could fool around with my wife" he said everybody.
Jack Roy
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu
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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.
George Bernard Shaw