“There's a thing when you're always working on something you really love, and this one we loved so much, it feels like you have a secret, and you can't wait to let people in on the secret. But at the same time, there's that moment where, "What if they get the secret and they think the secret is stupid?!"” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsMomentsWaitingSecretStupidLike YouWhat IfThat MomentAlways Working Author:Matt Reeves
“The Big Trump is a historic figure. The Big Trump beat 16 other people for the nomination. The Big Trump is creating issues that make the establishment very uncomfortable. The Little Trump frankly gets out - is stupid. I mean, that comment just then is dumb. And I don't defend him when he wanders off; I've told him over and over.” PeopleMeanLittlesBigsIssuesStupidFiguresTrumpCreatingBeatsWanderDumbUncomfortableCommentEstablishmentHistoricNominations Author:Newt Gingrich
“People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.” PeopleMistakeStupidStupid Mistake Author:Karin Slaughter
“Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.” PeopleWorldStillsSeemsStupidSelfishViolentGood People Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“Now many things are beginning to come out and it was truly a reality to me when I went to Africa, to Guinea. The little things that had been taught to me about the African people, that they were "heathens," "savages," and they were just downright stupid people. But when I got to Guinea, we were greeted by the Government of Guinea, which is Black People - and we stayed at a place that was the government building, because we were the guests of the Government.” PeopleLittlesRealityGovernmentBlackStupidBuildingTaughtLittle ThingsBlack PeopleGuestsSavagesStupid PeopleHeathenGuinea Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“People love hearing Trump tell a media person, "You're stupid, what kind of question is that? You have no idea what you're talking about, let me tell you what -" They love that. Nobody ever talks back to 'em. Nobody ever gets on their case.” PeopleKindPersonsIdeasTalkingCasesMediaStupidTrumpLet MeHearingNo IdeaEmsYou Re Stupid Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It has now become a status symbol among the rich to say that you got ripped off by Bernie Madoff, because everybody is losing money in the market, everybody is, but it makes you special and unique if you lost money because of Madoff. These people don't think it makes 'em look stupid. It continues to elevate their status, they think.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksLostRichSpecialStupidUniqueLosingSymbolsEmsRippedStatus SymbolLost MoneyLosing MoneyMadoff Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The more people figure this [liberalism a special kind of stupid] out, the more people that see it and are turned off by it, the more people who find it objectionable, the more people who ask, "Gee, what kind of people," the better off we're gonna be.” PeopleKindAsksSpecialStupidFiguresLiberalismBetter OffTurned Off Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Democrats] have gotten rid of the mask, and they can't help themselves. And they are exposing who they really are every day now in random acts of special kind of stupid, to which and from which we certainly can benefit. I mean, I'm all for as many people as possible seeing who they are, but I know what you were doing with your class, you know, no booing, we must respect the president. I totally agree with that.” PeopleKnowsKindMeanHelpingPresidentClassSeeingSpecialStupidBenefitsAgreeDemocratMaskExposingBooing Author:Rush Limbaugh
“History rewards all research. And history fails to record one single instance in which the white man - as a people - did good. They have always been devils; they always will be devils, and they are about to be destroyed. The final proof that they are devils lies in the fact that they are about to destroy themselves. Only a devil - and a stupid devil at that - would destroy himself!” PeopleMenFactsLyingWhiteRecordsFailingStupidResearchDevilRewardsFinalsProofDestroyedInstanceWhite Man Author:Malcolm X
“I came to realize,people who had Chinese accents will continue to have Chinese accents in America are treated as being stupid or not as intelligent as an English speaker who is fluent with an American accent - I came to realize why. But it's always fascinated me how quickly you can change where you stand with another human being just based on how you speak.” PeopleHumansAmericaSpeakRealizingHuman BeingsStupidIntelligentTreatedChineseFascinatedSpeakersAccentsFluentWhere You StandBeing Stupid Author:Trevor Noah
“I'm not anti-anything. I'm not anti-Jew or Gentile, I'm not anti-white, but I am pro-black. I am pro my people. And I love us so much that it gets on my nerves when we do stupid things.” PeopleBlackWhiteStupidJewNervesStupid ThingsGentiles Author:Stephen A. Smith
“If you put Canada into $1.5 trillion in debt and interest rates go up just 200 basis points, you cannot provide the services to 36 million people that were guaranteed to them in the social contract they have with Canada. That's a very, very scary prospect. You can't burden this economy with that much debt. The risk you take on is insurmountable. You have to assume for the next 50 years that rates don't go up? That's insane. That's irresponsible. That's stupid.” PeopleIfsYearsNextSocialInterestMillionsEconomyRiskStupidBasesAssumingRateBurdenScaryDebtInsaneCanadaContractsIrresponsibleInterest RateInsurmountableSocial Contract Author:Kevin O'Leary
“I think I realize why celebrities go crazy, do something stupid or have a nervous breakdown. Fortunately I have great people around me, but I see how that can happen.” PeopleThinkingHappensRealizingCrazyStupidNervousGreat PeopleBreakdownNervous Breakdown Author:Carrie Underwood
“A lot of people probably say I'm stupid, and they're probably right, because there are people who take days off who are still in the league, and I'm not.” PeopleStillsStupidLeagueDays Off Author:Prince Fielder
“Be straight with yourself just to maybe save a few more people from being stupid and being ignorant.” PeopleStupidIgnorantBeing StupidBeing Ignorant Author:George Harrison
“How many years did people hate Obamacare? Now there's a poll out there that says Obamacare's never been more popular. Really? Really? Just how stupid do you think we all are? After whatever it is, six years of rising premiums, lost coverage, horrible treatment, no access, now all of a sudden, and there hasn't been any improvement in enrollment.” PeopleThinkingYearsHateLostStupidSixAccessImprovementHorribleRisingTreatmentPollsObamacareCoverageEnrollment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn't elect a king. So all the speculation in the next three months - people camped out at his house, and wondering who's coming to visit, who's going to be the Secretary of State - that all struck me as inane and stupid.” PeopleStatesThreeNextHousePresidentPartyWonderStupidMonthsKingsElectionDemocraticBarackPresidentialSecretarySpeculationDemocratic PartyPresident Barack ObamaThree MonthsPresidential Election Author:Bill Ayers
“I believe this was [Margaret Thatcher] estimate of the voter: "These people are so stupid that they will vote for me because they think I know how to run the household."” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveRunningI BelieveKnow HowStupidVoteVotersHouseholdVote For Me Author:Hilary Mantel
“The average politician speaks out of both sides of their mouth. No matter if it's Canada or the United States. And it's all three levels of government here and all parties. They act one way in front of the people and they think people are stupid and they can blow smoke where the sun doesn't shine for these people. And people don't buy it anymore.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayMatterStatesGovernmentThreeSpeakSidesLevelsUnitedPartyUnited StatesSunFrontsStupidPoliticianMouthsShiningAverageBlowOne WaySmokeCanadaBoth SidesSpeaks Out Author:Doug Ford, Jr.
“The Chinese are not stupid people. They're very smart people. They told me very, very distinctly that they cannot believe how stupid our representatives are in the United States. They cannot believe that they can continue to take all our jobs - you know, through the manipulation of the currency, of their currency, they make it almost impossible for our great companies to compete.” PeopleKnowsBelieveStatesJobsUnitedCompanyUnited StatesImpossibleStupidSmartChineseManipulationRepresentativesCurrencyStupid PeopleSmart PeopleVery SmartNot StupidGreat Company Author:Donald Trump
“I'm really, really worried about the Trump team, and I want people on the team who I think are adults who have judgment and won't do anything stupid.” PeopleThinkingWantTeamStupidTrumpJudgmentAdultsWorried Author:Tim Kaine
“If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on that subject, you're going to end up with a much more regressive public-policy environment than if you approach it in a quieter way. It's not because the public is stupid, it's just that people with only a cursory interest in something are going to have a knee-jerk reaction to it. That's impossible to explain in a cable-news media... it doesn't make sense.” PeopleIfsWayEndsInterestIssuesEnvironmentImpossibleConditionsSubjectsMediaStupidPolicyApproachNewsReactionsMake SenseKneesPrisonerInvitesMainstreamCablesJerkPublic PolicyMainstream MediaNews MediaCable NewsKnee Jerk Reactions Author:Rachel Maddow
“I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.” PeopleThinkingEnoughFunnyPayAttentionAttitudeStupidAssumingPositive AttitudeNaiveKeep A Positive Attitude Author:Amy Adams
“I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards.” PeopleThinkingKindMovingPoliticalUsedStrongGivenProcessUnitedPartyMoralGoneDemocracyStupidCitizensStandardsAdvantageEssenceCourtSupremeMassiveGrantsEthicalFloodSupreme CourtBackwardsTaxationRulingAdmirablePolitical SystemsSupplementsAdventAmerican DemocracyCitizens UnitedEthical Standards Author:Jimmy Carter
“There are many qualities of a great leader. Passion is one, empathy is another, listening is another, decisiveness is another. I think a great leader makes people feel comfortable, so that they feel that they're allowed to be stupid, they're not afraid to give their opinions.” PeopleThinkingGivingFeelsPassionQualityLeaderOpinionStupidListeningComfortableEmpathyNot AfraidGreat LeaderDecisiveness Author:Sherry Lansing
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsBelieveDoneBigsMightBrainCasesStudyFiveNiceHavensStupidCollegeProudDegreesCardsMusclesFive YearsScoreTallChemicalsEngineeringSleevesBlondeLater In LifeChemical Engineering Author:Dolph Lundgren
“Thanks to the Internet, I think, a lot of hate has moved to more anonymous venues. A lot of people get their aggression out that way. Or they do some drive-by hating—you know, where they’re in a car and they yell something stupid out the window at a stoplight and then take off. It’s just not as involved and laborious to be a hater as it used to be. There’s not as much face-to-face interaction. Facebook’s made ’em lazy.” PeopleThinkingHateCarStupidInternetWindowMovedThanksLazyAggressionHate You Author:Negin Farsad
“The friendship that you create between you and a mom - or you and an older woman figure - is so important and so influential. I think that my relationship with my sister, my relationship with my best friends - when I'm feeling really terrible about myself, they're always there to let me know that I am being dramatic about something, or I'm being stupid about something - it's good to have those kinds of people to drag you back down and protect you.” PeopleThinkingKindImportantFeelingsStupidMomTerribleProtectLet MeDramaticMy SisterMy Best FriendInfluentialOlder WomenBeing Stupid Author:Rowan Blanchard
“Well, if it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war. If they tell me they want war instead of peace, I don't say they're naive, I say they're stupid. Stupid to an incredible degree to send young people out to kill other young people they don't even know, who never did anybody any harm, never harmed them. That is the current system. I am naive? That's insane.” PeopleWarStupidIncrediblesInsane Author:Benjamin B. Ferencz
“When people get cancer now, the first thing you do is you go to some doctors to get some advice, figure out what to do. People live a long long life after a cancer diagnosis. Not that it's not scary. The people I know have done so many stupid things. And they're still alive. Just being alive at this point is kind of icing on the cake.” PeopleKindLongDoneAdviceStupidCancerScaryLong Life Author:Exene Cervenka
“One odd thing about the current debate between religious people and atheists is that the participants don't seem to care that they entirely fail to communicate with the other side. They therefore have no account of why the religious or the atheists believe what they do, except that they are stupid or deluded. I think philosophers should try and make sense of their disputes with their opponents as far as possible without treating them as idiots. This applies to the religious participants in the debate as much as to the atheists.” PeopleThinkingTryingBelieveCareReligiousFailingStupidAtheistPhilosopherCommunicateDebateIdiotMake SenseOdd Author:Tim Crane
“Many people like to think that their moral or political enemies are not just wicked or wrong - as if that were not enough - but stupid or idiotic too. We tend to find this attitude too in the contemporary religion debate. It might console those on each side of the debate to think of their opponents in these terms, but if we want to make real progress in understanding what is going on here, this approach cannot help.” PeopleThinkingRealEnoughHelpingPoliticalUnderstandingTermAttitudeMoralEnemyProgressStupidDebateWickedIdiotic Author:Tim Crane
“If you're always in the company of people who agree with you, you're going to think of people who don't agree with you as venal or stupid. I constantly tell my students that if they're in the company of people who always say "amen" to what you say, find other company. And that is the source of illiberalism, when you are unable to listen to someone who thinks differently. That's when democracies are in trouble.” PeopleThinkingDemocracyTroubleStupidStudentsAgree Author:Condoleezza Rice
“We continue to get stories that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians, even though there's no evidence. We continue to get stories that Donald Trump is saying the most insulting, stupid things to people, that he's bragging to enemies about his nut job FBI director that he fired. None of it is substantiated. But there are no anonymous leaks on this trip to the Middle East. So far. We don't have a single story that tells us that Trump told the king of Saudi Arabia, "Take the veil off, man. Get into the twenty-first century and look like a real man." No leaks like this.” PeopleMenRealEnemyStupidEvidenceFbiInsultingBraggingReal Men Author:Rush Limbaugh
“People say bad things about me. I've had people tell me, "You know, Rush, I've been telling people to listen to you and listen to you, and I finally get 'em to do it, and then you say something so offensive, and they look me, 'You listen to this?' And I'm tired of defending you, Rush. Why do you say stupid things?" I know what this is like.” PeopleStupidTiredOffensive Author:Rush Limbaugh
“One thing people are gonna have to understand about Trump: He's not stupid; he's not a bull in a china shop. You may end up disagreeing with him profoundly. You may not end up not liking him at all before this is over. I don't know. But he's not dumb, and he's not ignorant, and it's not that he doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing and is doing it for a reason.” PeopleReasonStupidIgnorantDumbNot Stupid Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. Only stupid people or fools would think it was bad.” PeopleThinkingStupidFoolGood ThingsStupid PeopleGood Relationship Author:Michael McFaul
“I am perhaps being charitable but I think there are a bunch of people out there who feel stupid. Some will be feeling stupid for stupid and evil reasons - HEY, TRUMP HASN'T DEPORTED ALL THE BROWN PEOPLE YET - and some will feel stupid for good reasons, such as that he lied about everything. But I think being made to feel stupid is damage.” PeopleThinkingReasonFeelingsEvilStupidLiedCharitableHe Lied Author:Gene Weingarten
“If you listen to my record, I'm just honest about stupid stuff most normal people wouldn't put in a pop song.” PeopleSongHonestStupidPop Song Author:Kesha
“I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they were, so that delusion went on for a long time. Maybe it's still going on, only somehow I sucked some people in. It was a long time of writing things that didn't make sense in the real world, and I'm embarrassed about them now in a jocular way.” PeopleWorldWritingLongRealImpossibleStupidRidiculousMake SenseDelusionReal WorldEmbarrassedClue Author:Hampton Fancher
“I like art that challenges you and makes a lot of people angry because they don't get it. Because they refuse to look at it properly. Rather than open their mind to the possibility of seeing something, they just resist. A lot of people think contemporary art makes them feel stupid. Because they are stupid. They're right. If you have contempt about contemporary art, you are stupid. You can be the most uneducated person in the world and completely appreciate contemporary art, because you see the rebellion. You see that it's trying to change things.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingMindArtChallengesStupidPossibilityArt IsAppreciateRebellionContemptUneducatedTrying To Change Author:John Waters
“For some reason, we can't go to Cuba, businesses in American can't do business in Cuba. I think that that is stupid. So I hope very much and applaud the president for his efforts in that direction and hope that in the not-too-distant future, that if I have anything to say about it as president, we will work aggressively to develop normal relations in every respect with the people of Cuba.” PeopleThinkingReasonPresidentEffortStupidRelation Author:Bernie Sanders
“People start realising that I'm a responsible filmmaker and I'm not going to run away with the budget or do anything stupid. I think it probably depends on the subject matter and it depends on who's producing and all those things. My hope is that I'll be allowed to carry on making films.” PeopleThinkingRunningFilmStupidResponsibleFilmmakerRealisingRunning Away Author:David Mackenzie
“There's a stupid trend in American politics right now with people who have no experience with politics and no grasp of public service as a profession just deciding that they're going to jump into it. The obvious figurehead of this whole "I am an idiot, therefore I can be a politician" is Donald Trump. People think that ignorance of a profession is somehow qualifying for that profession. It's utterly baffling.” PeopleThinkingStupidIgnorancePoliticianObviousProfessionIdiotPublic Service Author:Steve Albini
“I think as this generation of electronic musicians goes on, popular electronic music will be more and more accepted. It's gonna get less confusing. You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.” PeopleThinkingStupidMusicianRapAcceptedConfusingInnovativeElectronic Music Author:Dan Deacon
“I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture. And you still have your hands to contend with. If you're 70, no one is going to think you're 35. The whole concept is kind of stupid.” PeopleThinkingKindReasonEarthStupidSurgerySurgeonsPlastic Surgery Author:Iris Apfel
“I do enjoy talking about how everything's changed and I'm fascinated by it, and I can spend my time worrying, like, "Are we going to appeal to teens?" But then, if I were to try to make a record for teens, I'd be doing exactly what I said I didn't want to do. That'd be posturing. And I'm watching other people trying to do that, and they all look stupid. But for some of them, it's working, so cash in.” PeopleTryingEnjoyWorryStupidChanged Author:Ed Droste
“I was desperate to do more TV and film. Because I considered myself to be a theater creature. A theater animal. I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life. Because it's something I can really do. I thought I was pretty good at it, and it's kind of stupid, but I was concerned that people would go, "Oh yeah, he's very good onstage, I'm not sure he can do television."” PeopleKindFilmAnimalStupidConcernedVery GoodNot SureDesperate Author:James Callis
“I read reviews every time. I read them all. Sometimes they can be very constructive, sometimes not, but it's always interesting to see the opinion of others on what you are doing. Sometimes I am very furious, but I will never say to a journalist, "Please don't come back to the next show." Never. Because I think that's a very stupid attitude. I am very happy when I see the results of the company and when I see people wearing my clothes or my accessories. I think this is the best answer to criticism.” PeopleThinkingSometimesInterestingAttitudeOpinionStupidCriticismJournalistVery HappyFuriousVery Stupid Author:Frida Giannini