Ridiculous Quotes - Page 10

• A lot of people want to judge the fact that I'm an actor. That's ridiculous. No one knows what I was doing before I made my first movie. I just happened to do it as an actor all the while I've been doing music, but never with the intention to become a screaming famous pop star.

  Taryn Manning

  Stars, Judging, People

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on it, I think it was rather to my credit. The notion of actually putting writers' words into other words is quite ridiculous because why bother if writers mean what they mean, and if they don't, why read them? There is, I suppose, a case for studying literary works in depth, but I don't quite know what 'in depth' means unless you read a paragraph over and over again.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Education, Mean, Thinking

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• how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

  Muriel Lester

  Self, Names, People

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

  Dan Futterman

  Silly, Dumb, Shooting

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 13, 1998.

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• I love seeing somebody act real earnest and serious, like Jackie Gleason. He makes me laugh because he reflects back to me my own serious-mindedness and how ridiculous it all is. It's always easier to see somebody else in that position than yourself, and you laugh. It's like the classic slipping on the banana peel, or someone getting hit by a pie in the face. Why do those things make us laugh? Is it from relief, like: Thank God it wasn't me? Or is it something else: I'm being very serious now. I'm pontificating earnestly and solemnly about-POW! PIE IN THE FACE! The bust-up of certainty.

  Jeff Bridges

  Real, Pie, Laughing

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• Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

  Samuel Johnson

  Long, Genius, Useless

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• I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

  Odette Annable

  Grandpa, Spy, Trying

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• The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl on the subway reading sides for an audition, my only thought is, 'Man, am I glad I'm not doing that anymore.' I never feel nostalgia, just relief.

  Mara Wilson

  Girl, Reading, Men

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• I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Mean, Thinking, Attention

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• The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.

  John Wayne

  Thinking, United States, Would Be

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• I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say anything else to those whom we instruct in divine things, but merely command them to believe.
  They accuse the apostles of ignorance, labelling them barbarians, because they do not have the subtlety of eloquence; and they say that the cult of martyrs is ridiculous, considering it completely absurd for the living to seek assistance from the dead.

  Theodoret

  Believe, Ignorance, Greek

  "Theodoret of Cyrus" (The Early Church Fathers) by Istvan Pasztori Kupan, Routledge, (p. 86), 2006.

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• I can't be described as a sex symbol; I think it's ridiculous.

  Tom Mison

  Sex, Thinking, Symbols

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I dont know what to say, really.

  Vince Clarke

  Past, Thinking, Finding Yourself

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• The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do.

  John Lennon

  Music, Mean, Ideas

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• I want to make it clear to people that the idea of putting subliminable messages into ads is ridiculous.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Ideas, People

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• There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Winning

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• The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because its kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

  Conor Oberst

  Goodbye, Nice, Thinking

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• Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.

  Gareth Bale

  Struggle, Growing, Problem

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• Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.

  Louie Gohmert

  Kings, Character, Color

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• I do believe in monsters oddly enough. I think they're under my bed. But aliens are ridiculous; monsters I think are real completely though.

  Seth Rogen

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Source: movieweb.com

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• People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know if they thrived during World War II or Vietnam, but I thought that's kind of strange, why would that happen. I don't know if people rearrange their priorities; in good times, they freak out and start pointing the fingers at video games and TV, but when horrible things are happening in the world, a horror movie just seems a little ridiculous.

  Rob Zombie

  War, Games, People

  "Rob Zombie Goes Six Feet Under with The Devil's Rejects". Interview with Movieweb, movieweb.com. July 20, 2005.

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• I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!

  Chris Martin

  Home, Thinking, Dancing

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• It's ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Mean, Answers, Difficult

  Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.62, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.

  Lynn Margulis

  Thinking, People, Earth

  "Attack of the Microbiologists" by Elizabeth Royte, www.nytimes.com. January 14, 1996.

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• It's ridiculous, but it's horrible going bald. Anyone who says it isn't is lying.

  James Nesbitt

  Lying, Horrible

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

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