I Was Stupid Quotes:

I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.

- Daniel Handler

source: Twitter post from Jun 11, 2014

topic: Stupid, Phrases, I Was Stupid

I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish.

- Britney Spears

source: "Did I say that?" compiled by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2008.

topic: Japan, Eating, Fishes, Really Stupid, Stupidest

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

- Brooke Shields

source: Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising, 25 June 1981

topic: Funny, Life, Witty, Really Stupid, Very Stupid

Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea.

- Jessica Simpson

source: "Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica". www.imdb.com. 2003.

topic: Stupid, Tuna Fish, Sea, Really Stupid, Stupidest

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Education, Not Stupid, Infinite Intelligence

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Inspirational, Success, Educational, Being Stupid, Stupid Life

You know, it really doesn`t matter what the media write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.

- Donald Trump

source: "Would God Be So Good?" by Barry Friedman, www.esquire.com. July 29, 2013.

topic: Beautiful, Stupid, Writing, Really Stupid, Shocking

I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

- David Beckham

source: "Together by Richard Sennett - review" by Nicholas Lezard, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2013.

topic: Funny, Soccer, Football, Soccer Player, Really Stupid

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

- George W. Bush

topic: Stupid, Silly, Humor, Stupidest, Stupid Celebrity

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

- Ivana Trump

topic: Writing, Fiction, Fiction Writing, Stupidest Celebrity, Dumb Celebrity

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

- George W. Bush

source: George W. Bush's remarks on teaching American history and civic education at East Literature Magnet School in Nashville, Tennessee, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 17, 2002.

topic: Funny, Stupid, Humorous, Stupidest, Stupid Celebrity

I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

- Cameron Diaz

topic: Funny, Stupid, Dumb, Very Stupid, Zero Gravity

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Marriage, Gay, Men, Stupidest, Stupid Celebrity

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

- Mariah Carey

source: "The X Factor - Mariah Carey night - LIVE!!!" by Heidi Stephens, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2008.

topic: Funny, Money, Stupid, Really Stupid, Stupidest

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

- Sam Levenson

source: Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.86, Open Road Media

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Wise, Stupid Life, Stupid Funny

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

- Christina Aguilera

topic: Funny, Movie, Stupid, Really Stupid, Cannes

I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me. I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that.

- Kami Garcia

topic: Hurt, Giving Up, Stupid, I Was Stupid

Back then it was a different culture. It was very loose. I was young. I was stupid.

- Alex Rodriguez

source: "Rodriguez: 'Sorry and deeply regretful'". Interview with Peter Gammons, www.espn.com. February 9, 2009.

topic: Stupid, Different, Culture, I Was Stupid

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.

- Plato

source: Plato (1970). “Great dialogues of Plato”, Plume

topic: Beautiful, Stupid, Thinking, I Was Stupid

It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.

- Sharon Creech

topic: Stupid, Silence, Speech, I Was Stupid

I didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me. I started totally free and crazy and innocent. Now I've seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don't do commercials, I don't do films pre-prepared by other people, I don't do star system. So I do my own little thing.

- Agnes Varda

source: Source: film.avclub.com

topic: Beautiful, Crazy, Stupid, I Was Stupid

I WAS YOUNG!! I WAS STUPID.. YOU TOLD ME GIRLS BOUGHT THAT MAGAZINE!!

- Shawn Michaels

topic: Girl, Stupid, Wrestling, I Was Stupid

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

- Jules Feiffer

source: "Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, Second Edition". Book edited by William H. McNeill, Jerry Bentley and David Christian, April 30, 2010.

topic: Wise, Stupid, Confused, Indecisive, Assertive

You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Stupid, Mean, Parent, Trying So Hard, I Was Stupid

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

- Benjamin Carson

source: "Saving America: Dr. Benjamin Carson's fight for real change". "Hannity", www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2013.

topic: Stupid, Agreement, Students, Classmates, I Was Stupid

Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

- Danica McKellar

topic: Teacher, Stupid, Home, New Teachers, I Was Stupid

In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

- Coco Chanel

source: "Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets". Book by Marcel Haedrich, p. 95, 1971.

topic: I Was Stupid

They were never my pack, not even Hot Pie and Gendry. I was stupid to think so, just a stupid little girl, and no wolf at all.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Girl, Stupid, Thinking, I Was Stupid

My father would take you wherever you wanted to go," he told her softly. "I was pretty sure I could talk you into staying, but I underestimated how badly hurt I was." "Stupid," she said tartly. He looked up at her, and whatever he saw in her face made him smile, though his voice was serious when he answered her charge. "Yes. You throw my judgement off." -Charles and Anna when he thought she was leaving him and Changed when he was injured

- Patricia Briggs

topic: Hurt, Stupid, Father, Leaving Him, I Was Stupid

So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.

- Douglas Adams

topic: Stupid, Mean, Dies, I Was Stupid

I became blinded by what I thought I needed to do. I was wrong. I was stupid. But not for one minute did I ever stop loving you. And that's why I deserve to be forgiven.

- C.C. Hunter

topic: Stupid, Loving You, Minutes, One Minute, Blinded

How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.

- Joaquin Andujar

topic: Baseball, Stupid, Yugoslavia, Pluto, I Was Stupid

At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

- Carine Roitfeld

source: "Comedians and their parents: Nina Conti and father Tom". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2013.

topic: Fashion, Stupid, Thinking, I Was Stupid

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.

- John S. Hall

source: "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

topic: Smart, Stupid, Wish, I Was Stupid

I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so I wanted to go to the hardest academic school I could to see if I was really as smart as I thought I was.

- Tucker Max

topic: Smart, Stupid, School, Hyper, I Was Stupid

But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'

- Michael Jordan

topic: Inspirational, Regret, Stupid, Look At Yourself In The Mirror, I Was Stupid

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

- Robert Sternberg

topic: Teacher, Stupid, School, Low Expectations, You Re Stupid

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

- Terry Pratchett

source: "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

topic: Stupid, Thinking, Philosopher, Small Gods, I Was Stupid

I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.

- Agnes Varda

source: Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

topic: Stupid, Film, Made, I Was Stupid

I grew up thinking that because I couldn't read, I was stupid and would never amount to anything. I worked my way through college as a waitress and thought I wasn't capable of doing anything else. My grades in English were horrible, and I barely got through.

- Suze Orman

topic: Stupid, College, Thinking, I Was Stupid

At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.

- Dave Grohl

topic: Cute, Teacher, Stupid, Dunces, I Was Stupid

I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.

- Madonna Ciccone

topic: Art, Stupid, Believe, Pretty Picture, I Was Stupid

I've got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossible.

- Justin Townes Earle

topic: Stupid, Clothes, Impossible, I Was Stupid