Taylor Swift

It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

American Singer

Jocko Willink

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

American

Zach Anner

The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.

American Comedian

Keanu Reeves

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.

Canadian Actor

Bill Lawrence

I love television; I specifically love having a dumb character on a TV show.

American Producer

George Lois

If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work.

American Artist

Peter McWilliams

As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.

American Writer

Jason Momoa

I've done a lot of dumb things in my life.

American Actor

John Kennedy

American Lawyer

Alton Brown

American Entertainer

Originally meant unable to speak, used for physical inability to vocalize.

Literal Silence

Be careful using 'dumb' to describe non-speaking; it may be offensive.

Sensitive Usage

'Dumb' can be a harsh judgment of someone's intelligence in slang.

Slang Connotation

Commonly used informally to express disapproval or disbelief at one's actions.

Colloquial Use

Used when someone is so surprised or impressed, they can't speak.

Shock or Awe

Describes being speechless from a strong emotional reaction.

Emotional Response

Indicates actions or expressions of feelings not using speech.

Without Words

In theater, a 'dumb show' involves acting without speech.

Non-Verbal Performing

 or too obvious, or just plain dumb, try jotting it down, anyway. What's obvious to you may not be to the next person. And the opposite of the dumbest idea might just turn out to be the smartest. What about all that dumb stuff that happens in real life? Have you ever noticed how much comedy revolves around things

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 we'll be denying those people an indefinite life span, and I consider that that is immoral. That's my answer to the overpopulation question. Right. So the next thing is, now why should we get a little bit more active on this? And the fundamental answer is that the pro-aging trance is not as dumb as it looks.

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 I we eat the dumb Marvin then small fish eat us bigger animals eat them all the way up the food chain even the blue whale the biggest animal that's ever lived usually likes nothing more than a great mouth full of stupid krill what this means is no plankton no sea life no

Plankton, a Thank You...

 and dumb decisions, of course. I do that hourly. But I had always felt like, look, you know, I made the best choice I could make given who I was then, given the information I had on hand. I learned a lesson from it. It somehow got me to where I am in life right now.

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 than the average elephant, but that doesn't mean the average man is three times dumber than an elephant or does it? There's a new wave of female neuroscientists that are finding important differences between female and male brains in neuron connectivity,

The biology of gender,...

 and looking up at the great big world through their tiny little eyes, taking these seemingly complex ideas and simplifying them -- not dumbing them down, but homing in on the core concept. Gender is about how we feel and how we express ourselves.

Why kids need to learn...

 There was a secret message in her choreography. What had seemed to countless generations of observers to be nothing more than the meaningless spasmodic motions of a dumb animal was actually a complex message,

The Search for...

 swing open intuitions Spectrum's a largeness that she stepped into that changed her life and in the end of her life she said I found joy she was deaf dumb blind and brilliant that's all of

Stop defining yourself...

 Our challenge is to wake up each day and say, "How can I experience the world better?" And if we do, maybe, just maybe, we can get rid of these dumb little stickers. Thank you very much.

The first secret of...

 they said that is the dumbest thing you've ever said. Who have you ever known who woke up in the morning -- that turned black? In other words, they were fixed in the concrete