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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.


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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.
RONNIE SHAKES It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
SAMUEL LEVENSON It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
SAM LEVENSON As We Say Life Is A Mystery,Then Dont Chase It,Just Live It.
KIM CHOWDHURY A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
CRISS JAMI That's what I want to invoke on them. This is bigger than them and it is sport and it's a chain of e...
RICK SAY They looked at the videotape because of Kali, but I guess they liked the other boys. Same thing happ...
WENDELL SAY A wise person has something to say, a fool has to say something.
UNKNOWN When you say “It’s hard”, it actually means “I’m not strong enough to fight for it”. Sto...
GUNDO MULAUDZI Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
PLATO Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
PLATO Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
PLATO girl/boy..!! you do it again and again even after saying so many times..!! no no..!! dats it..!! its...
FAHEEM IQBAL Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -Plato
PLATO You don't want to change, you just say "No" and again "No" and you continue to watch stuff which you...
DEYTH BANGER Just say something real. Everyone just always tries so hard, and it all comes out the same. I...
KATIE ALENDER Suicide thought is a negative force that needs to be overcome with a positive force,positive thinkin...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is an option for the unwise,but for the wise suicide has got no room to be given an option.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is never the solution to life's problems but hope.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When the mind is filled with positivity the thoughts of suicide becomes virtually non existing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You may have something wise to say, but HOW YOU SAY IT may make it unwise! RECREATE it, else you'll ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Nothing gets easy. It is just that you understand how it is and how it works. Nothing its difficult ...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS Grace,” I said, very softly. “Say something.”
Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to ...
MITCH ALBOM My philosophy in all my jobs at McDonald's is to be honest and say what I think and mean what I ...
CHARLIE BELL i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g...
DALLY SALAD We would be so discouraged and think oh it's not going to happen and then we'd say,
CARRIE CATT We would be so discouraged and think oh it's not going to happen and then we'd say,
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT DONT SAY ELECTION IT IS ILL-ACTION.
PANDIT MUSTAFA ARIF So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant per...
CHAD HUGO Better to forget, better to let go of the bitterness. I say bitterness is only good in medicine, or ...
LYDIA KWA You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold...
VIN DIESEL It's everybody's team, so everybody has the opportunity to say something to get off their chest and ...
CURTIS BAHAM Don't lie to yourself?
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Everyone hears what you say, Friends listen to what you say, Best friends listen to what you dont sa...
PROVERB You couldn't really say that something that hurts so badly feels good exactly. It's more that it jus...
JULIA HOBAN Just say “I’m sorry.” It’s not a tongue twister. It does not need repeating multiple times. ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH My father would often start to say something, then say 'Forget it.'
BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN So you want to improve the world? Then do it. To the next person who crosses your path, say somethin...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Sometimes it's like: If something terrifies you, you should totally do it BECAUSE it terrifies you. ...
JONATHAN SACCONE-JOLY Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be fri...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Okay, so the answer is no, then. And you can't even say it. I find it very disturbing that you can't...
SAM KATZ "Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simples...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT I'm attracted to difficulty, I think. I'm attracted to guys who have truckloads of baggage. With the...
KARA LEE CORTHRON Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, sma...
JEFF GOLDBLUM The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to ...
CATHERINE HICKS We want people to just be honest, if you like something, say you like it, if you don't like somethin...
BIG KENNY So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.
CHAD HUGO if it takes getting made fun of or teased to be who i am, then i say its worth it.
BAILEY CHANDRA I just listen to what people say, absorb it and then regurgitate it later. I'm very nosy, I think.
DAVID GEDGE I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky...
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS If there's something you need to say, just say it. If it all goes wrong, it will all blow over and s...
KAYLA RAE I don't think it was necessarily just the players' decision. I think (Hartley) should be accountable...
DARCY TUCKER I don't mind playing someone's girlfriend or wife if I have something to say, if I bring som...
ANA DE ARMAS It's been successfully cheating its way with its nuclear program for something like 20 years, so I t...
JASPER BECKER I think it's always a really stupid thing to base your achievement on someone else. I just want ...
BRONTE CAMPBELL It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a mas...
KURT VONNEGUT 'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Peoples reactions say alot more about themselves then it does the people they are reacting to Live W...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN Was it fair? I think it's pretty stupid, really, if that's what you wanted me to say.
BOBBY DAVIS People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.
MICHAEL PALIN It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase al...
ANONYMOUS It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase al...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE People dont see you for what you think, they see you for what you say
SIMPLETON I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a p...
FRANKA POTENTE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.
BARRY MANILOW If you're afraid to say something stupid to your best friend, he's not your friend at all
PETER MIDTGARD I hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that just say, 'I'm stupid.'
BILL ENGVALL I just dont know how...to think less. If you know how, then teach me...
AISHAH MADADIY I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'...
AMY SEDARIS If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.
CHRISTIAN D. LARSON -you can think you know someone and then they say something or do something and suddenly everything ...
CARRIE RYAN Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you s...
EVAN ESAR The caucus system is simple, quick, open and effective, regardless of what its detractors may say.
TOM VINCENT I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for peop...
KRIS ALLEN 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisti...
DAN GROAT Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a cent...
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA It's hard to know when it might be clinical; time-wise, it's hard to say.
CHANDRA SEHGAL It was a triple prejudice, ... They didn't speak the language, so it was easy to say they were stupi...
DAN KLORES So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE the more simple an idea . the more people it can help ! my idea is a simple new word ! its so simple...
TOM KEHOE I was cursed with age, really. You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and i...
TOM FELTON The problem with call-in shows is quite simple, if you only dare to admit it: Democracy is best when...
JOHAN HAKELIUS I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understandi...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man ...
FRANK M. GARAFOLA A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Something in me - probably a small, nationalist dwarf part of my brain - something in me would like ...
MARTIJN BENDERS There's just so much to think about. I tense up and I don't know what to say; it just makes me nervo...
MANDY SMITH Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then mayb...
CATHERINE GILBERT MURDOCK We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON It's totally stupid to say that,
ANJA PAERSON if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There's sort of a magic boundary line. Something has its moment, and then it's gone; it becomes thri...
TRAVIS SMITH In several TV shows I've done, I'm trying to think of what - just say something here, we need someth...
FRED WILLARD Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into somet...
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SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey.
SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
SAM MENDES I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ...
SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m...
SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts...
SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
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