"If it's true, then I'm stupid because I didn't understand anything about this, " Mancini added later.
This was because they were stupid enough to believe that they really were AAA, that they were just great bonds at a great price.
Dukakis thought the ads about furloughed killer Willie Horton did not need to be answered simply because they were stupid and wrong, ignoring the fact that they were devastating.
ObamaCare is so unpopular not because the public is too stupid to understand it, but because millions of Americans understand the law better than many members of Congress.
Yes, of course, the police later found the phone and the footage and so one more criminal is behind bars because he was too stupid to know what he was doing with an iPhone.
If it's going to happen one more time, then I'm going to leave the pitch because it's so stupid.
" 'Swing change' is really a stupid term, because it's actually just gradual evolution in encoded brain patterns, " Foley said.
He learned a valuable lesson about not just plunging into the market and buying four flashy, obvious stocks because you happen to play stupid videogames on a PC and have a vague, adolescent familiarity with the technology sector.
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Undeniably, as a species we are extremely adaptable, but we must never forget that the Oracle of Delphi called Socrates the wisest of all men: He was the wisest of all men because he realized he was stupid.
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And I was so shy because I thought my questions were stupid.
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He looked stupid at first, because the Nasdaq then proceeded to leap to its all-time high, before later plunging in early 2000.
Mr Gill decided to take on an Ultra Marathon because it was "a little bit stupid".
Having to quit a game like Dark Souls because you run out of lives is stupid.
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Names, no matter how cloying, no matter how contrived, no matter how stupid, come into being because somebody wants to bring them into being.
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So, far from dispersing the risk, which is what securitisation should do, we ended up concentrating it in leveraged institutions because those running those leveraged institutions were stupid enough to think that the MBS stuff was all top notch, top drawer credit.
But in 1992, then-candidate Bill Clinton's campaign slogan in the United States, "It's the economy, stupid, " caught on precisely because it highlighted such an obvious, important truth.
Which is unfair, because you can't be accused of being stupid if you aren't aware of the problem.
Talking to Ira is really interesting because he tries to refrain from saying things that are stupid or a waste of time.
It is not because the people making these software products are particularly bad or stupid.
Of course, that's yet another unfair fact of life: really stupid people seem to acquire wealth and power with relative ease because they don't have the impediment of conscience or second-guessing reflection.
In disasters like Katrina we saw how stupid and harmful it is to refuse the services of doctors just because they had an out-of-state address.
Microsoft will continue to complain because playing dirty pool is in their corporate DNA. Google has made some stupid mistakes in the last few years (being in China, Google Buzz, poor explanation of capturing WiFi packets, etc.), but compared to Microsoft, they are far better for the consumer in this dimension since Microsoft will do anything and everything to have their way.
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Usually, this is because they miss an appointment with their parole officer, fail a drug test or do something else that is stupid but trivial.
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