If you write a country song, and it's the best song you've ever written but throw it out because you're a metal band, you'd be an idiot.
You always feel the ground rumbling beneath your feet, and if you don't, you're an idiot. Mostly because it is rumbling beneath your feet, and there is always someone who is coming up behind you who is as good, younger, and, at least as you perceive it, has more energy and more nimbleness than you.
Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
The trouble is that you get fans who tell you you're great no matter how big an idiot you are.
Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.
I live right next to a grocery store and I don't know if it's the bachelor in me, but I just go in and shop for what I need for the day. I'm an idiot because I don't shop for the whole week. The check out clerks always crack jokes about the fact that I'm in there sometimes twice a day.
I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.
I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.
I don't get the jitters and I don't get nervous, because I build that comfort on set for myself. Sometimes if I'm gonna do something really crazy, it helps me to yell or look like an idiot on set, so that when I'm about to do a scene, I've already embarrassed myself. I find ways to work around getting the jitters.
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
Any professional athlete who gets on TV or radio and says he never played with a gay guy is a stone-freakin' idiot.
You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.
Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.
I'm not ashamed to look like a total idiot.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they're an idiot, then they make you sound like an idiot, too. They ask you stupid questions, and they bring you down to their level. It's tempting to not ever want to talk to anybody, but you can't do that.
If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
To generalize is to be an idiot.