“If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.” IfsWishStupidMassBroadsSympathyCrudeStupid ThingsPopulistPopulism Author:Adolf Hitler
“September 11 definitely opened our eyes, but when I was 19 or whatever on the last record, we just didn't care about anything. We were too young to care about anything. And then as you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark. That just kind of opened everyone's eyes (which I probably wish it did to more people) that there's obviously something wrong, to try and figure out what it is and what's going on in the world.” PeopleWorldTryingKindEyeCareLastsYoungWishDarkRecordsStupidFiguresExcuseSeptemberSeptember 11 Author:Deryck Whibley
“I wish I could take back every interview. Over and over again, I read them later, and either I'm misquoted or I said something stupid. I'm just not very good at it.” SaidWishStupidVery GoodInterviews Author:Chloe Sevigny
“I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.” IfsWorldHumansLongEnoughEyeWishRaceWonderStupidSuicideCommitOptimisticLiftsHuman Race Book:Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters
“In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of "normal" work. In my twenties some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was twenty-seven before my adult novel, The Birthgrave, was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer. It felt like a rescue from damnation, and still does.” WayShouldChildrenDoeStillsBookSoulFeelingsJobsNightWishFeltNovelTakenStupidNormalAdultsTwentiesSevenKillingHatedUsaUsualRescuePublishersDay And NightManuscriptsDamnationDrudgery Author:Tanith Lee
“It's not just that I'm stupid; it's that I'm just smart enough to know how stupid I am. I wish I weren't so stupid. Or that I were stupider.” KnowsEnoughWishKnow HowStupidSmartI Was Stupid Author:John S. Hall
“That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 - that is what it amounts to, with interest.” PeopleThinkingWayWantShouldStatesWishInterestWealthUnitedPayUnited StatesStupidAmountAddInvestingDebtCompelledLoanNational DebtOld Ways Author:Thomas A. Edison
“Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.” WishStupidInvolvedDrugIllusionPerformancesSteroidPerformance Enhancing Drugs Author:Mark McGwire
“If we view our children as stupid, naughty, disturbed, or guilty of their misdeeds, they will learn to behold themselves as foolish, faulty, or shameful specimens of humanity. They will regard us as judges from whom they wish to hide, and they will interpret everything we say as further proof of their unworthiness. If we view them as innocent, or at least merely ignorant, they will gain understanding from their experiences, and they will continue to regard us as wise partners.” IfsChildrenHumanityWishUnderstandingViewsWiseStupidJudgingGainsRegardOur ChildrenProofPartnersFoolishIgnorantInnocentGuiltyDisturbedShamefulNaughtyMisdeeds Book:Whole child, whole parent Source: Whole child, whole parent