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“Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo, right near the primate habitats, there's a display featuring half a dozen life-size gorillas made out of bronze. Posted nearby is a sign reading CAUTION: GORILLA STATUES MAY BE HOT. Everywhere you turn, the obvious is being stated. CANNON MAY BE LOUD. MOVING SIDEWALK IS ABOUT TO END. To people who don't run around suing one another, such signs suggest a crippling lack of intelligence.”

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“I like doing this stuff [stunts] though, it's kind of the whole reason that you want to do the movie. When you're reading it you're like, "Oh, I get to dive out a window? Cool! I get to jump off a building? Great!" So I love doing that stuff, it's like the stuff we used to do in high school to be stupid and fun.”

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Author:Channing Tatum

“That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when I was growing up, my mother didn't care. As long as I was reading, she didn't care if my room was filled with comics. I could have saved everything. I was just too stupid to do it.”

Ifs Long Made Book Care Mother Reading Rooms Growing Up Growing Stupid Filled Saved Comic Collections Comic Book

Author:Stan Lee

“McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.”

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Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that they're dumb. There needs to be a recognition that you need different ways to teach children who have got reading problems.”

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Author:Jackie French

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

“I keep reading about people who want to be famous - it's not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.”

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Author:Barry Manilow

“Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?”

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Author:Cecil Castellucci

“All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.”

Has Beens Book Wanted Romance Reading Novel Fire Stupid Ruined Romance Novel

Author:Aurora Rose Reynolds

“When we wrote that scene about the Sleepy Kittens where he's reading the storybook to the kids, it's like we've had to read these stupid books to our kids, and we all want to just tell our kids, "This is really bad. Don't you know that? Can't you see that?"”

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Author:Cinco Paul

“I kid the Republicans, with love. I feel bad for them. They got nobody for next time. Who are they gonna run? Sarah Palin, reading off her hand. Did you see that? You saw this? She wrote "tax cuts" on her hand. A Republican so stupid she has to be reminded of the one thing - Tax cuts! This is like if you saw the coyote's paw and it said "Road Runner".”

Ifs Feels Said Hands Running Kids Reading Next Saws Cutting One Thing Stupid Republican Taxes Next Time Runners Palin Tax Cuts Paws Coyotes Road Runner

Author:Bill Maher

“I think, for some children, your skills don't lie in written words. A lot of school is based around written words and how good you are at spelling or reading. From a young age, if you're told you can't spell or read very well, you're made to feel a bit stupid.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Wells Children Made Age School Young Lying Reading Bits Written Stupid Skills Spells Young Age Spelling Written Word Don't Lie

Author:Erin Richards

“If we're united, I wouldn't care about a White school board getting me a little something. The hell with the school board; that's the White supremacy board and the White supremacy board wants you reading stupid books rooted in the idea of White supremacy. I don't want a thing to do with White supremacy.”

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Author:Louis Farrakhan

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”

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Book:The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979

Source: The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979

“If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid”

Ifs Thinking Persons Whole Reading Loses Cases Stupid Capacity Learned Person

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer