Quotes About Awareness

Before every game, I have this 30-second routine where I'll pretend like I'm doing some stupid stretch, but what I am really doing is just closing my eyes and taking in the moment, imagining every arena and every city I've been in, smelling all the smells, seeing all the fans.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.

Politics goes in one ear and out the other. I don't even know the president's name for sure. That's how stupid I am.

It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.

For years, I have been trying to persuade people that George W. Bush, although no Einstein, is not stupid.

People are just so stupid.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

As much as I want to help people, I had to accept the fact long ago that being stupid with money isn't illegal.

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.

The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled 'genetically engineered', the public will shy away and won't take them.

The public are not stupid.

There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

Never be afraid to ask when you don't understand. It sounds like a little thing, but awful things have happened, international incidents have flared, and markets have collapsed just because people couldn't make sense of what was being said. They didn't ask 'why?' because they thought it would make them look stupid.

I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.

I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things.

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little grasp they have of what people are really feeling in a country. Especially CIA guys. Maybe they're just really good at playing stupid, but I don't think so.

I'm not in the business to make people aware of me, and publicists are very expensive - they're $3,500 a month! I don't want to spend that kind of money so I can get a stupid article in 'Interview' magazine.

Stupid people are ruining America.

I was doing a bit that stupid people should be slapped. But the more I did it, the more I didn't like that connotation, the violence and all that. The more I thought about it, I thought they should just wear signs. And, man, it just took off.