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On their own merits modest men are dumb.

Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.

I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in.

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.