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"When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool."
Levon Helm
"When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool."
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"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."
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"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave."
Andrew Carnegie
"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave."
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"A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions."
Wilson Mizner
"A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions."
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"My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job."
Brion James
"My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job."
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"I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true."
Ann Robinson
"I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true."
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"It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere."
Voltaire
"It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere."
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"To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's."
William Penn
"To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's."
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"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
Mae West
"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
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"I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection."
Billy Joel
"I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection."
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"One fool at least in every married couple."
Henry Fielding
"One fool at least in every married couple."
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"The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool."
Epicurus
"The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool."
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"We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast."
Afrika Bambaataa
"We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast."
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"It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled."
Joey Skaggs
"It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled."
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"The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world."
Charles Caleb Colton
"The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world."
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"I would be a fool to deny my own abilities."
Julie Andrews
"I would be a fool to deny my own abilities."
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"A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living."
Gerald Brenan
"A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living."
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"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."
Hunter S. Thompson
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."
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"A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man."
Lord Melbourne
"A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man."
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"My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere."
Steve Cropper
"My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere."
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"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."
Lord Acton
"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."
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"To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."
Ben Jonson
"To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."
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"It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all."
Jeff Goldblum
"It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all."
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"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself."
J. B. Priestley
"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself."
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"Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of."
Roger Mudd
"Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of."
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"The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool."
Jerome Lawrence
"The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool."
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"A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool."
Joseph Roux
"A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool."
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"No one but a fool is always right."
David Hare
"No one but a fool is always right."
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"A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past."
Elizabeth I
"A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past."
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"Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed."
Walt Whitman
"Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed."
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"Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself."
Adam Savage
"Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself."
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"Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled."
Kenneth Lay
"Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled."
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"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."
Jean de la Bruyere
"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."
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"He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine."
Jeremy Taylor
"He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine."
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"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."
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"But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role."
Sean Hayes
"But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role."
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"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
Euripides
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
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"Silence is the wit of fools."
Anatole France
"Silence is the wit of fools."
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"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise."
Charles de Secondat
"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise."
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"To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool."
Robert E. Sherwood
"To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool."
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"That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them."
Alfred Sutro
"That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them."
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"The fool inherits, but the wise must get."
William Cartwright
"The fool inherits, but the wise must get."
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"A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it."
Carl T. Rowan
"A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it."
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"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
Randall Terry
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
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"Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity."
Dylan Thomas
"Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity."
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"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment."
Horace
"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment."
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"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."
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"When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it."
Ilka Chase
"When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it."
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"I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools."
Jack Black
"I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools."
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"I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool."
Katherine Whitehorn
"I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool."
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