Redundant Quotes

• I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

  Billy Connolly

  Blow, Thinking, Make You Think

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• The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems.

  Joe Barton

  Safety, Nuclear, United States

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• Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

  Alan Rudolph

  Play, Kind, Politician

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.

  Italo Calvino

  Memories, Cities, Repeats

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

  Billy Tauzin

  Water, Dutch, Canals

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• But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story

  Glenn Danzig

  Song, Writing, Stories

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• I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

  Donna Mills

  Character, Cutting, Things In Life

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• I don't need to be redundant to the gay community about what's wrong and what isn't happening for them.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Gay, Community, Needs

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• Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioural sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performng the act but does not do so, tehn it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Motivation, Opportunity

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• The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons.

  Stephen King

  Pain, World, Size

  Stephen King (2016). “Misery”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Heard, Repetitive

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• I think "creative preaching" is redundant.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Creative, Preaching

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television.

  Joe Buck

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The cost of appearing with a bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

  George Will

  Cost, Enough, Lows

  "George Will Calls Donald Trump a 'Bloviating Ignoramus'". abcnews.go.com. May 27, 2012.

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• Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Time, Action, Unnecessary

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.70, Penguin UK

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• Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)

  Michael Pollan

  Sweet, Wind, Apples

  Michael Pollan (2001). “The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World”, p.44, Random House

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• Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

  Andrew Simms

  Economics, Humankind, Ifs

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• Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

  George Will

  Enough, Lows, Trump

  "This Week", ABC, May 27, 2012.

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• All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Technology, United States, Machines

  "Now" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2005.

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• It's a privilege to have the career I have, to love every day and be following my passion, the stories that interest me, to remote locations and people. So nothing stops me from that - but yes, it seems redundant in documentary-filmmaker circles today to say the biggest struggle was financing.

  Pietra Brettkelly

  Struggle, Passion, Circles

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I used to fall hard when I was younger, and it occupies a lot of journals and redundant preoccupation and analysis. It is a state in which you are in an overheated fervor of production - of mental production - where you're analyzing everything that happened. And what they said! And how they looked! Did that touch mean something, or not? Everything is sort of endowed with meaning, but you're also hopelessly boring and out of the world.

  Todd Haynes

  Fall, Mean, Analysis

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• In San Francisco, Haloween is redundant.

  Will Durst

  San Francisco

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• In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Thinking, America, Important

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.

  Michael Moore

  Sports, Democracy, Would Be

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• The best thing that can happen to anybody is to be sacked or made redundant because often that's when you think, "I don't want to become one of the living dead. I haven't got anything to lose, now I can start to follow my own dreams."

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Dream, Thinking, Want

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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