The genius of you Americans is that you never made clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves.
Copeland had retired but took on “assignments” for the CIA one of which was as a “go-between” with Nasser.
If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.
You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.
The key to running a good marathon is to not listen to anyone's advice the last week before the race. That's when people tend to do stupid things that disrupt all the input and training of the previous months.
A fierce and principled opposition stops a fat, complacent government from making stupid mistakes.
It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!
I've made some stupid decisions, so I have to be careful. I once said 'no' to a film that was a number-one hit. And 'Date Movie' had the smallest budget of any movie I'd been in, and it went to the top of the box office.
Back then it was a different culture. It was very loose. I was young. I was stupid.
Ultralight backpackers do some stupid stuff, like instead of bringing a toothbrush, you saw one off right below the bristles and just carry the head.