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Idiot Quotes
Quotes about foolishness, spoken plainly.
This page collects blunt, often self-mocking lines built around the word idiot, including a speaker avoiding predictions because it is a fast way to look foolish, and a line calling generalizing itself a foolish habit. The tone stays casual rather than mean-spirited.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
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If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.
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I never took any writing classes or planned to write. But I was working as an advertising copywriter in the late '80s and thought, 'What a shame there has never been a decent book on Jean Harlow,' then thought, 'Why don't I write one myself?' being kind of an idiot and not having the slightest idea what I was getting myself into.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.
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I'm a one-man idiot.
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I think everybody's got their insecurities and hang-ups. Everybody! Unless you're an idiot.
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When I hold a gun, I know how to be sensible about it. I'm not holding it to wild out or just to shoot somebody because I'm mad at him. There's responsibility in buying that gun, and part of it is dealing with it like a man, and not dealing with it like an idiot, and getting behind iron bars for unnecessary reasons.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I play live, I jump around like an idiot for an hour-and-a-half or more under a lighting rig that's hotter than hell.
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I'm extraordinarily lucky to have so many friends across such a diverse group of people. One day I'll be at Oxford, the next at some complete idiot's lunch.
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