Top 100 Not Stupid Quotes
#2. A coal miner from Chongjin whom I met in 2004 in China told me, People are not stupid. Everybody thinks our own government is to blame for our terrible situation. We all know we think that and we all know that everybody else thinks that. We don't need to talk about it.
Barbara Demick
#3. Julie looked like she was about to cry and waved her arms. "Whatever. Look, I'm not stupid. I know things! Adult things."
- "Like what?" "Like sex. I know about sex." I just stared at her. I wasn't opening that can of worms.
Ilona Andrews
#4. Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
Bernard DeVoto
#6. I don't want anything I don't deserve, but if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
Antonio Banderas
#7. What are you doing?"
"Playing house" said Felix
"Do you want to come and pour the tea?"
Ella's not stupid. "You are not.
Sally Nicholls
#8. There is a time on every job where you say, Screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.
Jeff Abbott
#9. Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.
Jerry Pournelle
#10. I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
Tamsin Greig
#11. It's not stupid to want to spend your life with someone. It's brave.
Nikki Logan
#12. The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn't say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don't know you very well, are likely to think you're rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.
Ian McEwan
#13. Bush had expertise in one thing: How to run a Presidential campaign. He understands campaigns and Presidential politics. He has no interest or disposition or I think probably - he's not stupid, but he's not bright, he's not a rocket scientist - he isn't interested in policy.
John Dean
#14. If your intuition is telling you not to do something, then don't. Your intuition is not stupid.
Martin Niemoller
#15. I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
Paris Hilton
#16. I'm not stupid," I muttered lamely.
"Well, why else would you tell Alex to go anywhere? What will we do for eye candy now? Were you thinking of Nate at all? Were you thinking of me? I think you're incredibly selfish, Lila.
Sarah Alderson
#17. It's not stupid to want to put on a pretty dress and feel beautiful for a night.
Stephanie Perkins
#18. Well the doctors say she's getting better, but I'm not stupid I know what terminal means
Christine Woo
#19. I'm trying to forget just as much as you probably are. Look, I'm not stupid. I know that we can never be the same. But I still wouldn't change anything. It was the plan and it worked. You're not dead and that's worth it to me. Maybe you'll forgive me someday.
James Dashner
#20. I'm not stupid, stupid. Leave this whole thing in my extremely capable and well-manicured hands. I'll call you later with an update. Bye!
P.C. Cast
#21. Kids are not physical creatures, and they're not stupid. They know all about violence and power and raw emotions. What's really scary is when adults pretend that such things don't exist."
(Grossman's review of The Hunger Games in "Time" magazine, Sept. 7, 2009)
Lev Grossman
#22. You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
Terry Brooks
#24. I tried to tell you. You said you didn't care, remember?"
A muscle ticked below his eye. "You should have told me anyway."
"While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I'm Disease, not Stupid.
Gena Showalter
#25. Trust me: not everyone is on the Adriane Lenox bandwagon. I'm not stupid enough to think that.
Adriane Lenox
#26. It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
Charlie Munger
#27. Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out.
Peter Berg
#28. Now, I'm not stupid, but when you see that your ticket to college is either football or your brains, and football is so much more fun, you tell me which one you'd pay attention to.
(Jameson)
Shukyou
#30. Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.
Tammara Webber
#31. I'm not stupid, I know your heart's involved in this and I've never, not once in all the time you've known me, given you the idea that I won't handle it with care.
Kristen Ashley
#32. It's not stupid. I guess havin' hope is better that givin' up and thinking life will such forever.
Simone Elkeles
#33. I take it back. You're not stupid. But damn, you are insane.
Maya Rodale
#35. Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips.
Rebecca West
#36. Don't tell the others," Gansey said.
"I'm dead," Noah replied, "not stupid.
Maggie Stiefvater
#37. I was asked once if I ever got tired of playing bimbos, and I answered that I've never played a bimbo. I've always played smart, manipulative women. Marilyn Monroe and Judy Holliday, who were not stupid, could play stupid really well, but I don't do it well.
Morgan Fairchild
#38. Ethan, but I'm certainly not the type of woman to just go home with two men whether I know them or not. It would be highly inappropriate, not to mention stupid."
"And you're not stupid."
"Not as far as I can tell" ...
MK McClintock
#39. As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.
Diana Wynne Jones
#41. A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!
Ashton Kutcher
#42. Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
Al Green
#43. 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
#44. People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.
Craig Ferguson
#45. I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid.
Joe Biden
#46. God, I might actually choke on these words. I trust you. And I wanna check this out, but I'm not stupid enough to go check it out myself, and I think I might... need you." - David
"E-mail her. Make an appointment. And I'll... I'll go with you." - Harper
Rachel Hawkins
#47. Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
#48. I'm so stupid," I tell her, tears streaming down my face now, blocking my vision.
"You're not stupid. You're just an emotional vampire.
Lily Paradis
#50. The last place I want to be is the hospital, but I'm not stupid. I know when it's time to go in. I am so terrified of myself and of the vast, frightening world, that the psych ward, with its safe locked doors, sounds like a relief.
Marya Hornbacher
#51. Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.
Rutger Hauer
#53. One can see [ ... ] that the so-called governing powers are cardboard characters that mask the true ruling factors of our culture. Of course, those who manipulate the nation are not stupid. Rulers throughout history are only as powerful as the people who support them allow them to be.
Peter Moon
#54. I may be a composite of multiple dead people, but I'm not stupid.
Seanan McGuire
#56. One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Alberto bloke was not stupid. With will you can achieve things.
Jose Mourinho
#57. When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then I scribble down a paragraph here, a paragraph there, when a notion strikes. Then I see if I can arrange those notions in a way that yields an argument.
Chad Harbach
#58. These things are going to look primitive to you, but you have to remember that we're not stupid. We have the same intelligence as you. We simply don't have the same cumulative knowledge you do. So we apply our intelligence to what we have.
Warren Ellis
#59. It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.
Douglas Hofstadter
#61. The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.
Colin Powell
#62. He is not stubborn, not narrow-minded, not lazy, not stupid. There was just no easy explanation. So it was left up in the air, a kind of mystery that one gives up on because there is no sense in just going round and round and round looking for an answer that's not there.
Robert M. Pirsig
#63. That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.'
'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.
Rick Yancey
#64. I'd like to. Problem is, I'm not stupid."
"You act stupid."
"Right. Thanks for that. For your information, there's a difference between acting stupid and being stupid."
"It's a fine line, but someone has to draw it.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#65. Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.
Michel Houellebecq
#66. This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.
Jodi Picoult
#67. Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.
Margot Asquith
#68. Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I'm not stupid. (Xypher)
I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#70. I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there.
Darcy Tucker
#71. I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
Orson Scott Card
#72. Yeah, well, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid, hopefully. And I think we're all a bit crazy if we do anything that's deviant. I've studied a great deal on deviance and aberrant behavior. Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#73. Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.
Laura Schlessinger
#74. George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.
Patton Oswalt
#76. I'm not stupid. I can tell what's what.
Nick Diaz
#77. I'm not stupid. I've got eyes. I see some things everyone else tries to pretend aren't there. This vampire craze sweeping the nation. Why the hell shouldn't there be some genuine vampires in it?
Jim Butcher
#78. No one can make you feel low unless you allow them to. You're not stupid, Alix. And you're very beautiful. I just thought you should know that. (Devyn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#79. Now, Hazel was not stupid. She knew that just because you see a piece of cake and a sign that says EAT ME doesn't mean you should actually do it. And just because two giant ravens point you in the direction of a path doesn't mean you should take it. But it was the only path she had.
Anne Ursu
#80. My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.
J.K. Rowling
#81. The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled 'genetically engineered', the public will shy away and won't take them.
Jeremy Rifkin
#82. We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the Cold War of conspiracy theories and amazing achievements that are very easily traced and validated.
Bassem Youssef
#83. With psych it's all about how raw and stripped down and stupid it gets. Not stupid in a bad way, but more of the fact that you can get to that point where it doesn't matter and you're not thinking about it too much. It's just you being you.
Mike Romano
#84. I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.
T Bone Burnett
#85. I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.
Robbie Coltrane
#86. It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?
George R R Martin
#88. You were in love, not stupid. They're two very different diseases with identical symptoms.
Tiffany Reisz
#89. I'm not stupid, nor a liar," I said, "and if I can't do any good, I can at least do something
Naomi Novik
#90. Anyone as stupidly brave as Atsumori is not going to understand Kenichi
I was not stupid. Odds were that I would have drowned; I was in full armor.
Wen Spencer
#92. If we are not stupid then we are bound to become one.
Santosh Kalwar
#93. I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.
Albert Brooks
#94. I'm not stupid. I know exactly what's going on, and I'm not fighting it. If I have to go through this, I will glean from it any small benefit I can receive. I will not fight this. Bring it on. Bring on the cure. Bring on the fucking happy. I'm committed.
Emilie Autumn
#95. People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.
Carl Sagan
#97. Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways?
Robertson Davies
#98. Please. Don't try and play games with me. It's belittling. I'm not stupid - I can spot a wolf in sheep's clothing when I see one - and your claws are showing. -Enoch Michelson
S.G. Night
#100. I'm not stupid. I would like to have some businesses that grow so I won't have to be out there on the road when I'm 44.
Jennifer Lopez
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