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Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Animal
Affectation
Refer
Any
Manner
Ignorant
Even
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Euripides
Good
Man
Good Man
Evil
Clever
Too
Would
More
Friend
Than
Prefer
Ignorant
Who
Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant.'
Eva Mendes
Think
Baby
Says
Wearing
Personally
Ignorant
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
Fisher Ames
Democracy
Liberty
Believe
Propensity
Call
Known
Ambitious
Which
Ignorant
I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.
Fred Melamed
Adherence
About
Seems
Rituals
Know
Judaism
Because
Am
Swallow
Much
Ignorant
Hard
Grounded
I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Great
Character
Will
Values
Determine
General
Fact
Advantage
Particular
Equations
Mathematical
Where
In Fact
Regard
Which
Manifestation
Pattern
Us
Means
Ignorant
Describe
Even
Technique
Great Advantage
Numerical
President Trump is quick to attack American students, immigrants, women, the LGBT community, journalists, and our international allies but he is either too weak or too ignorant to stand up to white supremacists and others who spew hatred.
Gavin Newsom
Women
Hatred
White
Community
Too
President
Others
Our
President Trump
Weak
Immigrants
Attack
Allies
Students
He
Journalists
Trump
Up
Quick
American
Either
Stand
Ignorant
Stand Up
Who
International
I don't want to be ignorant in my daughter's eyes.
Gretchen Wilson
Eyes
Daughter
Want
Ignorant
When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.
Hari Kondabolu
Jokes
Laugh
Would
Indian
About
Knew
Stuff
Stereotypes
Fairly
Talking
Doing
Get
Being
Them
Straightforward
Ethnic
Ignorant
Flipping
Standup
Using
Specifically
Started
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Sad
Life
Words
Girl
Master
Year
Young
Entered
Remain
Could
Import
Began
Whisper
Fifteenth
Ignorant
Epoch
Foul
Now
Ear
Slave
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
Havelock Ellis
Day
Seen
Beginning
Rejection
Unjustified
Other
Side
Alike
Sexual
Both
Crude
Altogether
Impulse
Held
Ignorant
Theory
Present
I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making 'Frenzy' in London and I was sent along to meet with him. He was very, very unimpressed with me and I have to say, I was rather unimpressed with him - but only because I was an arrogant, ignorant young actress.
Helen Mirren
Me
Met
Arrogant
Young
Meet
Say
Out
London
Rather
Only
He
Along
Him
Because
Frenzy
Making
Very
Hitchcock
Just
Sent
Ignorant
Actress
Starting
Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war.
Hjalmar Branting
War
Before
Hoped
Would
Threat
More
More Or Less
Never
Nevertheless
Permit
Were
Labor
Labor Movement
Salvation
Movement
Turned
Workers
Ignorant
Less
Who
International
Many
I'm completely irresponsible, I'm afraid. I'm ignorant about money as a commodity - I have never really understood it.
Ian Gillan
Money
About
Never
Understood
Commodity
Afraid
Irresponsible
Really
Ignorant
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
Ira Glass
You
Dance
Honestly
Tell
Would
Through
How
Am
Movement
Want
Story
Ignorant
Works
Even
Imagine
I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
J. William Fulbright
War
People
Feeling
President
Way
Say
Would
Johnson
Pursued
Never
Had
He
Like
Sure
Did
Bangkok
Any
Japan
Vietnam
Acted
Ignorant
Why
Ever
Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written about the Irish, the Jews, the Italians, any group you want.
James Gray
You
Group
Starts
Jews
Latino
Immigrants
About
Only
Written
Refer
Italians
Irish
Any
Want
Anyone
Them
Ignorant
Who
Need
Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.
Jane Birkin
Thought
Late
Focusing
He
Robert
Stevenson
Boy
Always
Louis
Author
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Ignorant
If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.
Jennifer Weiner
You
Book
Spell
Paper
Topic
Bestseller
About
Mention
Write
New
Name
Make
Becomes
Chick
Forget
Yorker
List
Romance
Lit
New Yorker
Might
Ignorant
Your
Fascination
Lucky
Right
I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.
Joe Namath
Man
Young
About
Naive
Still
Lot
Very
May
Young Man
Ignorant
Things
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
John Abbott
You
Wise
Man
Everything
About
Never
Do You Know
Know
Answer
How
Questions
Very
Intelligent
Intelligent Man
Afraid
Being
Anything
Being Afraid
Which
Ashamed
Ask
Asked
Much
Ignorant
Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them... Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I've met.
John Hughes
Respect
Met
Teenagers
Kids
Immoral
Some
Pretty
Case
Pursuits
Adult
Any
Listen
Them
Ignorant
Many
Base
Bright
Found
Portray
Filmmakers
The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.
John Jakes
Losing
Will
Hell
Pain
Innocence
Never
Remembering
Safe
Knowing
Been
Essence
Heaven
Children
Again
Ignorant
Therefore
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
John Perry Barlow
You
Will
Assure
System
Bought
Highly
Mass
Ideas
Knowledgeable
Intellectually
Then
Ignorant
Elite
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
John Simon
Democracy
About
Majority
Encourages
Decide
Which
Ignorant
Things
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Jonathan Swift
Heaven
Ignorant
Expressly
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