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As it stands, any idiot can get into it, and I can prove that to you, because I’m an idiot and we started a debt-buying company, and it was disturbingly easy. – John Oliver	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This boom, it's over, at least it feels that way, but if you don't know the oil industry is cyclical, you're an idiot. – Mark Ohl	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I'm looking forward to being sincerely interested in what they have to say without having to translate it through an idiot's mouth. – Robert Thompson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He is shallow, he is ill-prepared to be commander-in-chief, he doesn't know what he is talking about in terms of how our laws work, he says the worst things possible about immigrants and women, and he's a complete idiot when it comes to Mideast policy, so I think over time, common sense will prevail. – South Carolina Graham	Found on CNN 8 years ago
[f?-?-?king] idiot. You wasted my time .?.?. Everyone at the office thinks you are a [f?-?-?king] a?-?-?hole. – Shawn Lukaszewicz	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
You'd be an idiot if you were the only one who didn't make the most of it, but it's not right. The president thinks only of the present. The next one will have to pay the price. – Monica Padron	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If a seed can become a tree, flowers and fruits and if a sperm can become a body, eyes and hair, an idiot can become intelligent, and a stupid can become a genius. Only if we choose to. Because we are the immeasurable potential of all that was, is and will be. CHOOSE to become purposeful, meaningful and useful to this world and MickeyMize your life. Share this to create valuable humans for collective evolution. – Mickey Mehta	added by Mickeymized 9 years ago
Maus, free expression means the right to be an absolute idiot, and so I think it's important for those writers to exercise those rights. – Art Spiegelman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Free expression means the right to be an absolute idiot, and so I think it's important for those writers to exercise those rights. – Art Spiegelman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I’m devastated to have caused offence by using this outmoded terminology, i offer my sincere apologies. I make no excuse for my being an idiot and know the damage is done. – Benedict Cumberbatch	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This guy is clearly a complete idiot. – David Cameron	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Mum thinks I'm an idiot, Dad's not too proud either. – Harrison Williams	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason – Jimmy Fallon	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Olga is hitting Maria,and Maria is shouting like a big idiot. A Dragoon and a big idiot. – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I stand on my mark and say my lines and I try no to look like an idiot, and if that's no good then bite me! – Katharine Isabelle	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession. – Katharine Hepburn	added by anonymous 10 years ago
‘I assure you that I will do my best to tell everyone who I speak to about the play how Fritz really was. Do you actually believe that an idiot could ever become a doctor or a dentist? I don’t. Have you ever thought about why Fritz became a complainer during the hiding period? Until the betrayal, you and the van Pels family were all together and could share your burden. Fritz was a stranger among you. Certainly you must have known how much he worried about his wife. He was all alone.’ – Mrs Messmer	added by anonymous 10 years ago
April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. – Edna St. Vincent Millay	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation? – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. – Horace Mann	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. – Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot". – Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience. – John Guerrero	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 13 years ago

As it stands, any idiot can get into it, and I can prove that to you, because I’m an idiot and we started a debt-buying company, and it was disturbingly easy.

– John Oliver

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This boom, it's over, at least it feels that way, but if you don't know the oil industry is cyclical, you're an idiot.

– Mark Ohl

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm looking forward to being sincerely interested in what they have to say without having to translate it through an idiot's mouth.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He is shallow, he is ill-prepared to be commander-in-chief, he doesn't know what he is talking about in terms of how our laws work, he says the worst things possible about immigrants and women, and he's a complete idiot when it comes to Mideast policy, so I think over time, common sense will prevail.

– South Carolina Graham

Found on CNN
8 years ago

[f?-?-?king] idiot. You wasted my time .?.?. Everyone at the office thinks you are a [f?-?-?king] a?-?-?hole.

– Shawn Lukaszewicz

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You'd be an idiot if you were the only one who didn't make the most of it, but it's not right. The president thinks only of the present. The next one will have to pay the price.

– Monica Padron

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If a seed can become a tree, flowers and fruits and if a sperm can become a body, eyes and hair, an idiot can become intelligent, and a stupid can become a genius. Only if we choose to. Because we are the immeasurable potential of all that was, is and will be. CHOOSE to become purposeful, meaningful and useful to this world and MickeyMize your life. Share this to create valuable humans for collective evolution.

– Mickey Mehta

added by Mickeymized
9 years ago

Maus, free expression means the right to be an absolute idiot, and so I think it's important for those writers to exercise those rights.

– Art Spiegelman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Free expression means the right to be an absolute idiot, and so I think it's important for those writers to exercise those rights.

– Art Spiegelman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I’m devastated to have caused offence by using this outmoded terminology, i offer my sincere apologies. I make no excuse for my being an idiot and know the damage is done.

– Benedict Cumberbatch

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This guy is clearly a complete idiot.

– David Cameron

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Mum thinks I'm an idiot, Dad's not too proud either.

– Harrison Williams

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason

– Jimmy Fallon

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Olga is hitting Maria,and Maria is shouting like a big idiot. A Dragoon and a big idiot.

– Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia