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Stupid Quotes - Page 129

I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

"Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.198, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

Launch.com interview, October 30, 1998.

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

Murray Burton Levin (1971). “Political hysteria in America: the democratic capacity for repression”

I think my audience is smart. If there's a way to be entertained and get things out - real things, not stupid moral crap - that's the best.

"Michael Pitt: 'Making Movies Is the Only Thing I Know How to Do'". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. July 18, 2014.