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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. -- H. L. Mencken
Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes? -- Mika
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out. -- Joshua Jackson
Idiotic reply, June. Why don't you punch him in the face while you're at it. I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic -- Marie Lu
Idiotic reply, June. Why don't you punch him in the face while you're at it. I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic" -- Marie Lu
When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its purpose will be to arrange an annual dinner where we tell stories about Lisbeth Salander. You're all members. -- Steig Larsson
When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its purpose will be to arrange an annual dinner where we tell stories about Lisbeth Salander. You're all members." -- Stieg Larsson
I like idiotic comedies. -- James Gandolfini
The resistance to science is idiotic. -- Seth MacFarlane
Some idiotic things are well worth doing. -- Richard Ford
Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail. -- Virginia Graham
Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time. -- Mark Calcavecchia
We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing. -- Joe Klein
For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken. -- Sloane Crosley
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic. -- H. L. Mencken
How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself? -- C. S. Lewis
It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one. -- Jeanne Moreau
It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing. -- Karl Ove Knausgaard
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. -- Barbara Tuchman
Let's not let a few dumb things Mitt Romney said in private overshadow the many idiotic things he's said in public. -- Andy Borowitz
You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think. -- Rhys Ifans
People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think. -- Charlie Munger
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? -- Katherine Mansfield
It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done. -- Erik Naggum
They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know. -- Uta Hagen
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets. -- Bernard Cornwell
People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.' -- Miranda Hart
To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her. -- Jacques-Henri Lartigue
It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world. -- Milla Jovovich
It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle. -- Elvis Costello
I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge. -- Steve Coogan
I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why. -- Joss Whedon
I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men. -- Jimmy Swaggart
The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape! -- Steven Weber
I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat. -- Joan Collins
This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude - to expect theatres to make money. Do the public schools make money? Do libraries make money? Does the zoo make money? D o the sewers make money? It's a community service. -- John Hirsch
Yesterday the Soros -funded far left group Media Matters made a big issue of Pat Robertson's idiotic statement that the US should assassinate Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Today Robertson's comment is all over mainstream media. Are we supposed to think it's news that Robertson has a few screws loose? -- Charles Foster Johnson
People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying. -- Paul Auster
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom. -- Dee Hock
I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS. -- Gunter Grass
Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties. -- Jerry Saltz
Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the president who got us into the war in question. -- Matt Taibbi
Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!' -- Esther Rolle
I like idiotic comedies." -- James Gandolfini
Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic. -- Alan Grant
Some idiotic things are well worth doing." -- Richard Ford
What kind of an idiotic question is that?" -- Stephenie Meyer
What kind of an idiotic question is that? -- Stephenie Meyer
All human rules are more or less idiotic. -- Mark Twain
Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic. -- Rob Pike
Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic. -- E. F. Benson
Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined." -- G.K. Chesterton
We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic. -- Noam Chomsky
Nothing is more intimidating than an idiotic grin worn by a manifest non-idiot. -- Eric Frank Russell
Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good God." -- Victor Hugo
To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic." -- Cicero
Somehow he'd gone and done the unthinkable. The idiotic. He had fallen in love." -- Rosalie Lario
[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic. -- Albert Camus
As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off. -- Michael Lewis
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There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture. -- Thomas Couture
If you can make any religion look idiotic, chances are you haven't understood that religion. -- Ravi Zacharias
For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken." -- Sloane Crosley
You can be stupid once, but idiotic to do it again. I'll settle for being stupid -- Tony La Russa
I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing. -- Xavier Dolan
We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing." -- Joe Klein
Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities. -- Harry S. Truman
I am always the 'good guy,' and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation. -- Wally George
The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men. -- Robert Webb
The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it." -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic. -- Evelyn Waugh
I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed. -- Margaret Mead
I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy. -- H. L. Mencken
The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document. -- Jeph Jacques
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic." -- H. L. Mencken
How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?" -- C. S. Lewis
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free." -- John Clellon Holmes
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free. -- John Clellon Holmes
All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person. -- Jean Rhys
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline." -- Barbara Tuchman
As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated. -- A. N. Wilson
I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed. -- Joel Stein
I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?" -- Mika
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man." -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking about them. -- Erik Naggum
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip. -- Bill Ayers
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip." -- Bill Ayers
Oh, and let's not forget that there seems to be a gang of idiotic, fallen angels after me. Honestly, they could all kiss my ass." -- Christine Zolendz
Luke, some truly idiotic people have said some truly inspired things. Are we supposed to ignore their words because they couldn't live up to them?" -- Antony John
It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power." -- Kate Horsley
It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power. -- Kate Horsley
They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know." -- Uta Hagen
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets." -- Bernard Cornwell
To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic -- Anton Chekhov
I said something idiotic like, as [William] Shakespeare says, "Action is eloquence," and the judge just frowned at me and gave me a couple weeks in jail. -- Bill Ayers
This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen. I do not, under ordinary circumstances, feel seen." -- Lionel Shriver
[David] Muir tried four or five times to get a straight answer about [Donald] Trump's idiotic claim that 3-5 million noncitizens voted, and Trump just flatly wouldn't engage. -- Kevin Drum
The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett" -- Maureen Johnson
Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around. -- William H. Macy
Liberals could live their whole lives never having to hear an actual conservative opinion other than the idiotic arguments written for conservative characters on Aaron Sorkin's little teleplays. -- Ann Coulter
The whole weak in the knees thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett -- Maureen Johnson
The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett -- Maureen Johnson
The world may think it idiotic,Nor care at all we're symbiotic,But I will say at once and twice:I find it nice. I find it nice." -- Edward Gorey
We move in response to our conversation partner's face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic. -- John M. Gottman
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The world may think it idiotic, Nor care at all we're symbiotic, But I will say at once and twice: I find it nice. I find it nice. -- Edward Gorey
We move in response to our conversation partner's face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic." -- John M. Gottman
It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State. -- Albert Einstein
Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me. You didn't force that cocktail down his idiotic throat." -Jace, pg.241- -- Cassandra Clare
There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed. -- Gore Vidal
We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic. -- Randall Robinson
I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic. -- Clemence Poesy
American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitution contains so many cracks through which the lawyers may creep. -- Katharine Whitehorn
Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip." -- Lisa Kleypas

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