- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dumb Quotes
On intelligence, image and being underestimated.
This page collects dumb quotes that circle back to a shared question: what the word actually measures, and how little it says about real mental sharpness. For a related take on ability, see Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing - they had me dye my hair blonde - and every audition I was going out for was bleach blonde. The mean girl, the pretty girlfriend, and the dumb cheerleader.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not doing anything dumb; I'm not getting in trouble.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.
- Nov 07, 2020
For years, they cast me in these dumb straight roles of businessmen in three-piece suits.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020