Fool Quotes
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It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
T. S. Eliot
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I'm a shrinking violet because I don't want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
Bette Midler
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I love being around people that are smarter than me, that think faster than me. So even if you're a dork, and you wear stupid clothes, and you make a fool of yourself, and everyone makes fun of you, and you're just an idiot-I don't care about the context. I don't care. If you're genius and I recognize it, I kind of dig that.
Courtney Love
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He wanted to tell me that he thought he finally knew why Christ said to call no man Fool. Christ had said it, Seymour thought I'd want to know, because there are no fools. Dopes, yes - fools, no.
J. D. Salinger
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
Edward Abbey
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
B. B. King
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
Dan Aykroyd
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...Your company...will send drugs to all the underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any standards, we will fool them all and can make a great big profit and never tell the doctors that there is a risk.....You will meet the standards of the country in which you are advertising, not the...proper standard...I would think that you would not sleep at night....I do not think this country will not stand for it.
Gaylord Nelson
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We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.
Bob Marley
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
Harry Anderson
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Myrnin:I could murder a cheeseburger right now Oliver:focus ya fool
Rachel Caine
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Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.
Burgess Meredith
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A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.
Nolan Bushnell
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You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.
William Shakespeare
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A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.
Christian Louboutin
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You can do a good job when you play it safe, but you can't do a spectacular job. You have to risk it and be in danger of looking like an absolute fool.
Alex Sharp
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As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
Kabir
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There's a thin line between catering to the masses and making a fool of yourself; I try to walk that line.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
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The American public was lied to about the Vietnam War month by month by each of these five administrations Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public.
Daniel Ellsberg
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Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
Adam Savage