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Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Progress
Pride
Nothing
Way
Foolish
Sort
Opinion
While
Stands
If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
Kajol
Character
You
Cinema
Think
Society
Say
Rarely
Foolish
Reflects
Gets
Influenced
Watching
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
Karl Jaspers
Me
Poet
Become
Philosopher
Seemed
Foolish
Decide
I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.
Kelly Bishop
Funny
Day
You
Enough
Some
Foolish
Make
Nasty
Been
Ladies
Them
Lucky
Even
Play
Funnier
I'd be foolish not to take some of these opportunities that are coming my way.
Kim Kardashian
Opportunities
Way
Some
Foolish
Take
Coming
I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.
Kirk Cameron
Truth
God
Atheist
Could
Foolish
Stupidest
His
Exist
Done
Behind
Being
Stand
Assertion
Ever
Thing
Reject
I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
Leon Panetta
People
Sometimes
Young
Some
Foolish
Know
Make
Caught
Up
Very
Decisions
Young People
Moment
Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.
Liza Minnelli
Time
Experience
Reality
Looking
Every
Other
Every Time
Minds
Guests
Say
Entertaining
See
Seems
Having
Foolish
Had
Know
Look
Most
Make
Parts
Were
Reality Show
Reality Shows
Really
Show
Shows
Now
I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
Lucille Ball
Love
You
Business
Try
Will
Top
TV
TV Series
Foolish
Never
Know
Another
Off
Get
Series
Lucy
A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.
Lucy Larcom
Alone
Interior
Nurturing
Thought
Kind
Some
Morbid
Foolish
Writer
Self
Journal
Self-Consciousness
Well
Sort
Always
Am
Subjective
Much
Consciousness
When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.
Lysander Spooner
Saying
Man
Thought
Power
Building
Live
Says
Posterity
Foolish
He
House
Himself
Does
Understood
His
Nor
Any
Mean
Them
Bind
Binding
Right
Imagine
It's so easy to look foolish online.
M. J. Rose
Easy
Online
Foolish
Look
Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
Mae Jemison
Life
You
Realistic
Analytical
Intuitive
Both
Foolish
Between
Idealistic
Like
Versus
Trying
Just
Being
Choice
Choose
Need
Come on, we would be foolish to say that there's never been African-American leads in some capacity, people of color in some capacity, leading shows or what have you. But it hasn't happened enough and in a manner that is an accurate reflection of the world that we live in.
Mahershala Ali
You
People
World
Reflection
Live
Enough
Say
Would
Would-Be
Some
Color
Foolish
Never
Leading
Leads
Come
Been
Accurate
African-American
Happened
Capacity
Manner
Shows
It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest.
Martin Rees
Space
Problems
Solar
Our
Solar System
Earth
Top
Claim
System
Some
Emigration
Foolish
Environment
Long-Term
Escape
Offers
Even
Nowhere
Everest
If I had any real idea of exactly where inspiration comes from, I'd go there, find the foolish thing, bottle it, sell it, and retire to Tuscany.
Melanie Rawn
Find
Exactly
Inspiration
Foolish
Bottle
Had
Retire
Idea
Real
Go
Sell
Any
Where
Thing
I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn't want to do it anymore is foolish!
Melissa Rivers
Entertainment
Job
Think
Bored
Entertainment Industry
Ongoing
Foolish
Industry
Get
Want
Anymore
Anyone
Decide
Then
Who
It is not necessary to agree with the Arab point of view about their own history, but it is foolish to ignore it.
Michael Korda
History
Own
Arab
About
Point
Point Of View
Foolish
View
Ignore
Agree
Necessary
The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.
Mink Stole
You
Hurt
Big
Case
Point
Foolish
Take
Adventure
Like
Just
Anyone
Plain
Your
Chance
I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.
Miriam Margolyes
Class
Foolish
Upper
Upper-Class
Which
Against
Prejudice
Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so - not more than that.
Nevil Shute
God
Grief
Men
Vain
Reckless
Aircraft
Thousand
Wills
Unavoidable
More
Foolish
Lazy
Come
Because
Than
May
Crash
Themselves
I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
Octavia Spencer
Success
Me
You
Blessing
Grateful
Entitled
Think
Enough
Foolish
Divine
Instead
Supposed
Am
Been
Being
Happen
Happens
Appreciate
Many foolish people believe that nuclear war cannot happen, because there can be no winner. However, the American war planners, who elevated U.S. nuclear weapons from a retaliatory role to a pre-emptive first strike function, obviously do not agree that nuclear war cannot be won.
Paul Craig Roberts
War
People
Winner
First
Believe
Strike
Weapons
Foolish
Obviously
Because
However
Pre-Emptive
Won
Role
American
Happen
Cannot
Planners
Who
Many
Agree
Function
Elevated
Nuclear
Nuclear War
Nuclear Weapons
A lot of parts written for people of my size, dwarfs, are either foolish idiots or, like, these sages that are all-knowing, and they're very, sort of, come-to-them-for-answers.
Peter Dinklage
People
Foolish
Written
Like
Sort
Parts
Idiots
Lot
Very
Dwarf
Size
Either
If you are foolish enough to defend your own home against burglary, expect to be arrested, fingerprinted, DNA-swabbed, and probably charged.
Peter Hitchens
Home
You
Own
Enough
Charged
Foolish
Arrested
Expect
Against
Your
Defend
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.
Philip Pullman
Education
Me
Our
Everything
Alleging
Foolish
Remarks
Maintained
Leads
Schools
Well
Make
Occasionally
Passionate
Which
Interest
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