A Quote by Carroll O'Connor

Not all celebrities are dunces.

Carroll O'Connor

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Celebrities Dunces

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Carroll O'Connor
American - Actor
August 2, 1924 - June 21, 2001

People have always been fascinated by people in the public eye and what they wear, what they are doing, but not in a tabloid way. Tabloid celebrities are a turnoff. A lot of celebrities...you wonder why they are celebrities.

Andre Leon Talley

Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.

Jason Lee

What's awesome about social media is you curate your own experience. That leads to the rise of niche celebrities, who are actually just as popular as mass celebrities, but because there's no incentive for traditional media to invest in them as celebrities, they find a home where people can follow them on Instagram.

Kevin Systrom

The truth is black celebrities are not as sought after in the press as white celebrities, and that is comforting.

Niecy Nash

I liked movers and shakers more than celebrities. I wasn't that interested in celebrities. I grew up without a TV.

Jeannette Walls

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Alexander Pope

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

Jonathan Swift

I was doing a show in L.A. called 'Celebrity Autobiography,' where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrities' books and hang themselves with their own rope.

Scott Adsit

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

Isaac D'Israeli

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

Ambrose Bierce

We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.

C. S. Lewis

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

Poppy Z. Brite

Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.