Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.
— John Wayne
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Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.


In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.
You're nothing but an apple, a silly t-shirt, a catchphrase and a stupid haircut.
I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does.
The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
God’s anointing is not based on your performance, but if you don’t open the Word, you’re stupid, because that’s where the words of life are.
It's just the stupidest law possible.
.. You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending zillions of dollars trying to fight a war we can't win! We could make zillions, just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. It's stupid.

You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed.
"I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.
You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.
Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they are okay, you're it.

Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
People are always going to say stupid things, and you're always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in, because it's the easiest thing.
Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside.

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.
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.
But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid.
That's an animal fable about humility.
If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.
What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War .
.. Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you." "Why?" "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?

You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.
I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing.
Whenever I get one of those questionaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put down housewife. It's an admirable profession, why apologize for it. You aren't stupid because you're a housewife. When you're stirring the jam you can read Shakespeare.
Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid

I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.
Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.
...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.
If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.
I drop styles on ears...the public bite 'em. Not many went to school, so the dummies wouldn't write 'em. They say, "Yo Keith! You're Kool, you usin' big words!" I went to college, I'm even more stupid, herb.

I'm a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly.
And Ben [Carson] you're a terrible surgeon.
If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.
No one looks stupid when they're having fun.
Dogs have no money. Isn't that amazing? They're broke their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? .. No Pockets.
Everybody does stupid things in life.
Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.