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“I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.”

Whole Poor Rich Saws Wise Stupid Proud Healthy Sick Humble Fats Beggar Crippled

Author:William Saroyan

“I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?”

Mistake Stupid Proud Making Mistakes Why Not Stupid Things Idiotic I Make Mistakes

Author:Mika

“You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.”

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Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“I had been proud of my awareness, aware of my pride, and proud of that awareness again. It went on like this: How clever I am that I know I am so stupid, how stupid I am to think that I am clever, and how clever I am that I am aware of my stupidity, etc.”

Thinking Knows Awareness Stupid Pride Proud Stupidity Clever Etc

Book:The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

Source: The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

“I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.”

Kind Made Shows Stuff Clear Fronts Stupid Proud Gates Yards Spit Keepers Porch Southerner Front Porches

Author:Andy Griffith

“There was a time when everyone remembered that stupid thing about me not getting out of bed for less than $10,000 a day. These days, it's far more important to me that I'm part of a team which raises over $1 million a month for Aids. I'm much more proud of that, than that other old quote.”

Important Millions Team Stupid Months Proud Bed Raises Aids These Days Remembered Stupid Things

Author:Linda Evangelista

“I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.”

Thinking Way Should Wells Persons Enough Beautiful Speak Stupid Ought Proud Foundation Beautiful Things Elegant Speak The Truth I Was Stupid

Book:Great dialogues of Plato

Source: Great dialogues of Plato

“No one can believe I might have a brain. Because I'm really tall, I'm really blonde, I have big muscles, and kill people for a living. There you go. If anybody's going to be assumed to be stupid, it's me. I don't know what my IQ score is, but I did study for five years at college. And I'm proud of my chemical engineering degree. I haven't done anything with it, but it's a card up your sleeve for later in life. It's nice to have, just in case.”