Laughable Quotes - Page 2

• It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

  Libba Bray

  Tragedy, Comedy

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Laughter, Wall, Army

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.48

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• Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable-they should be taken absolutely seriously.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Believe, Taken, People

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• The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ideas, Political, Would Be

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• Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Careers, Might, Ridiculous

  "Joaquin Phoenix Stuns 'Letterman' Audience With Amy Winehouse-Like Appearance", www.foxnews.com. February 12, 2009.

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• Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Years, Age

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• I put it out before the American people, got 306 electoral college votes…270 which you need, that was laughable. We got 306 because people came out and voted like they’ve never seen before so that’s the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, College, People

  "Here Are Your Highlights of Today’s Trump Press Meltdown" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. February 16, 2017.

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• I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people usually have, and I have it in one person. And the idea that the critic thought that I had this excess of time for which I could go to, like, panels or write essays was just so laughable to me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jobs, Writing, Ideas

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

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• Of course it's contrived, but once you know how its contrived, you can understand the editorial viewpoint. CNN, for example, when you see where they're really coming from, you can subtract their bias, and get some sort of facts. Sometimes the amount of bias that is imposed in these things is so laughable that it gives you an extra layer of entertainment.

  Frank Zappa

  Cnn, Giving, Viewpoints

  Source: afka.net

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• A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Happiness, Laughter, Issues

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• My haters are laughable punks, my supporters the greatest people that ever lived.

  Ted Nugent

  People, Punk, My Haters

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Men find powerful women so threatening, and finding a partner was starting to look laughable, because I would be really attracted to guys and they would just be so threatened and I didn't like feeling threatening, I didn't want to feel threatened, I didn't want to feel like I was towering over anybody.

  Amanda Palmer

  Powerful, Men, Guy

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• That force - which the system tried to laugh at - when it finally broke through and the movement was recognized, the media said they were "just a bunch of spoiled kids, dope smokers [who] don't know what the hell they want." To demean it as something laughable - but that didn't work for very long. It's still an ongoing struggle; they're trying to find out how to fight. It's very exciting times.

  Haskell Wexler

  Struggle, Kids, Fighting

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Rogues, Cunning, Devilish

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• I think it laughable, frankly, that the physics community comes up with a theory for everything. There isn't one theory for everything. There is not one explanation. We may eventually have several theories that can tie things together nicely but there is not a single theory of everything.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Thinking, Ties, Community

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.

  Peter Diamandis

  Ideas, Suvs, Pounds

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

  Henry Rollins

  Nerves, Looks, Moral

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• As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Simple, Light

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Media, Doe, Form

  Donald Phillip Verene (2013). “Moral Philosophy and the Modern World”, p.119, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Trump said we got snookered. That those agreements like NAFTA were the worst agreements ever and suggested that our trade negotiators were snookered by these smart negotiators from Mexico or Africa. It is laughable. I have watched these trade negotiations. We got what we wanted.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Smart, Negotiation, Worst

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• People like the Mormons and the Scientologists, who I think should combine and make a Mormontologist because what they believe is just so out there it's just laughable.

  Bill Maher

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Bill Maher Gets Ridiculous with Religulous". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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• The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

  Herman Melville

  Laughter, Men, Thinking

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As long as American liberals are going to keep announcing that they're embarrassed for their country, how about being embarrassed by our public schools or by our ridiculous trial lawyer culture that other countries find laughable?

  Ann Coulter

  Country, School, Long

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• I was just at the newly opened Creationist Museum in Kentucky.... And they have this exhibit of a giant dinosaur...with a saddle on its back. Because the world is only 5000 years old, so man and the dinosaurs had to coexist, and, of course, we rode them. A theory I thought laughable at the age of eight when I saw it on THE FLINTSTONES!

  Bill Maher

  Men, Years, Museums

  "Bill Maher: The Decider". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

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• Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

  Jon Meacham

  Enemy, Sometimes, Failing

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