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Quotes About Dumb

Many shows in television have tried to do a Web element, and usually it's dumb. 'iCarly' has set the bar in television and Internet. I don't think there is better example. That may be the most significant thing about it.
~ Dan Schneider
There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.
~ Tim Robbins
I've never been afraid of the American Nazi Party, on the grounds that anybody dumb enough to pick a name like that is not a serious threat. Any real fascist movement that's a threat, that's serious and really endangers us, would call itself the Red, White, and Blue Christian American Party, or something like that. They wouldn't be dumb enough to call themselves Nazis.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals.
~ Robert Ferrigno
Nobody's dumb in this relationship [with his wife] or in the relationships of any of the other guys in the band. But it's also not the cliché that those on the outside envision.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
~ Yul Brynner
When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.
~ Jennifer Crusie
Well . . ." Lily prompted primly. "Ask me again." "Ask you what?" I played dumb. She'd shushed me. This was the price of shushing.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
~ Aaron McGruder
Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
~ Rick Moranis
Basically, your heart is just a dumb, simple mechanical pump, and your blood vessels are nothing more exciting than hoses.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Was that a sly smile of the initiate, or a dumb smile of bluffing?
~ Robert Silverberg
Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they're crazy** some are dumb, too, but that's another story.
~ Gregory Cochran
Anybody who will think about it knows the machinations of propaganda, the methods by which critical judgment is destroyed, how the mind is lulled into submission by clichés, how people are made dumb because they become dependent and lose their capacity to trust their eyes and judgment. They are blinded to reality by the fiction they believe.
~ Erich Fromm
Over a hundred years ago, we learned in a stupid little place that used to be called Vietnam that wars are absolutely useless for trying to change people. Who the fuck ever thought you could go to war to change people, as opposed to just obliterating them? Dumb as fuck. The only good think about wars is starting them. Because you sure as fuck can't win 'em anymore.
~ Andrew Smith
I stomped to the door, which was dumb because nobody can hear teenagers stomping in space. What's the point stopping if no one can hear you?
~ Andrew Smith
The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.
~ Harry Shearer
Assuming audiences to be dumb, that's a big fallacy.
~ Rajkumar Hirani
Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.
~ Ogden Nash
There were two diametrically opposed male stereotypes that had been around forever. The dumb jock stereotype. And the brilliant, socially awkward, unattractive, uncoordinated geek—with bad eyesight—stereotype.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Years later, the plain-speaking Truman would explain: "I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president . . . . I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.
~ Douglas G. Brinkley
Lloyd Hey, look, the Monkees. They were a huge influence on the Beatles.
~ Dumb & Dumber
sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald