Retarded Quotes

"If you look at the course of western history you`ll see that we`re slowly granting basic rights to everyone. A long time ago only kings had rights. Then rights were extended to property-owning white men. Then all men. Then women. Then children. Then the mentally retarded. Now we`re agonizing over the extension of basic rights to homosexuals and animals. We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this --the ability to pursue life without having someone else`s will involuntarily forced upon you. Or, as the framers of the constitution put it, the ability to have "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". By what criteria can you justify denying basic rights to any living thing? Realize that by whatever criteria you employ someone could deny basic rights to you if they objected to your species, sexual preferences, color, religion, ideology etc. Would you eat your housecat, or force a mentally retarded child to ingest oven cleaner? If not, then why is it ok to eat cows and test products on sentient animals? I believe that to knowingly commit actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the extreme.I call upon you to be compassionate and treat others as you want to be treated. If you don`t want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn`t condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not."

(about recording a song with boyfriend Justin Timberlake for her third album) I have to say I was a little nervous at first. I`m used to producers going in there and it`s like work. And, I go in and I work and I do my vocals and work. And, I thought that it was awkward at first because I was nervous recording with him doing my vocals, but then I just totally forgot that he was my boyfriend, and I just said "Britney, just do the vocals, don`t be nervous, don`t be retarded like this." But, it ended up being fine, actually. At the very end, I got the best vocals I`ve ever done.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We`ve been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It`s just like stand-up. It`s best when it`s just left alone. It doesn`t translate always on TV. It`s best live.

On the movie Forrest Gump (1994): I just wish for once Hollywood would make a realistic movie about retarded people, where a retarded guy leaves his house, people stare at him for a while and then lock him up.

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

I`ve been told that I`m incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn`t function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

It`s still difficult if you are a European director and your first language is not English to be exactly aware what the nuances of the American language are. Even after fifty, sixty years you are basically kind of a little bit retarded there.

There`s an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they`re not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child`s family and often the village.

Me, I`m spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that`s about as close to God as I get.

You have to be careful so you don`t make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a little... The bad guys are mostly the same on the paper... A bad guy wouldn`t think of himself as bad. The guy I`m playing in Metro (1997) thinks of himself as a responsible and nice guy, since he is taking care of his retarded cousin. That is what I try to keep in mind, when I`m shooting and stabbing people.

On playing "Warren" in There`s Something About Mary (1998): "The character was retarded - he wasn`t an idiot. Of all the idiots I`ve known in my life, none of them were retarded."

there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury believed that it was not permitted to consider mental impairment outside of determining whether (Penry) is mentally retarded.

Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.

Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and is therefore retarded in the development of his social interest, as we find regularly among