Ridiculous Quotes - Page 19

• I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

  Mary Harron

  Feminism, Film, Rejects

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Men, Age, Way

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• I've always said it's flattering to be desired, just as it's flattering that people accept the reality of the character you play. But it was always ridiculous to assume that because I could play a gigolo on screen I'd play anything like that role off screen.

  Richard Gere

  Character, Reality, Play

  "The Hoax - Richard Gere interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don't see a point in advertising my marital status when men don't. Completely ridiculous.

  Gene Weingarten

  Men, Advertising

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• To be included in the group with women like Glenn Close and Kyra Sedgwick is a little bit astonishing to me. To even be mentioned in the same sentence as Glenn Close is just ridiculous.

  Julianna Margulies

  Groups, Littles, Sentences

  Source: deadline.com

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• Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Taken, Important, Life Is

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• Always understand the risk/reward of the trade as it now stands, not as it existed when you put the position on. Some people say, "I was only playing with the market's money." That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.

  Bill Lipschutz

  People, Risk, Rewards

  "The New Market Wizards". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1992.

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• Write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount. You have to write so much that you don't mind throwing away and changing things that you've written - which is the second thing you have to do. A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not as good as you think you are, at least not yet. The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.

  Josh Lieb

  Mean, Writing, Thinking

  "Wanna write for Latenight? Get tips from a 'Tonight Show' producer". Interview with Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. April 05, 2015.

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• Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the body worse than it found it. Were not this the case, and could money be made of paper at pleasure, every sovereign in Europe would be as rich as he pleased. But the truth is, that it is a bubble and the attempt vanity. Nature has provided the proper materials for money: gold and silver, and any attempt of ours to rival her is ridiculous.

  Thomas Paine

  Drinking, Europe, Vanity

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.410

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• When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

  Thomas Paine

  Sublime, Borders, Critics

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.158

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• I had a Saturday job in a chemist. The pay was something ridiculous like £2 an hour - it was slave labour - and I spent all day cleaning shelves. On my first day an actress from Eldorado, which was on telly at the time, came in and said, 'Can I have some Replense please?' I didn't know what it was, so I had to ask her and she had to say, 'It's vaginal moisturiser,' in front of a massive queue of people. After one day I was like, 'I don't want to do this job any more, it's just boring.'

  Konnie Huq

  Jobs, People, One Day

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• No matter what happens, the world can be pretty ridiculous and people be pretty ridiculous, but how would you react? That's an easy filter to put any story through.

  Steve Dildarian

  People, Filters, Stories

  "HitFix Interview: ‘The Life and Times of Tim’ creator Steve Dildarian". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Laughter, Thinking, Medicine

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• Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the argument is really quite ridiculous.

  Richard Dawkins

  Winning, Argument, Consciousness

  "The Flying Spaghetti Monster". Interview with Steve Paulson, www.salon.com. October 13, 2006.

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• Of course the self-serving bias is something you want to get out of yourself. Thinking that what's good for you is good for the wider civilization and rationalizing all these ridiculous conclusions based on this subconscious tendency to serve one's self is a terribly inaccurate way to think.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Self, Civilization

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• I'm not one of those artists who refuses to play their hits. I find that ridiculous. Hits are a blessing.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Artist, Blessing, Play

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• Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?'

  Vivien Leigh

  Tired, Stories, Today

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• We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)

  Robert Wright

  Mean, Trying, Peculiar

  "The Moral Animal". Book by Robert Wright, www.wired.com. 1994.

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• It's outrageous. It's ridiculous. And 'twas ever thus. We all watched James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriends got younger and younger. It's so annoying.

  Helen Mirren

  Girlfriend, Annoying, Outrageous

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• John McCain is now openly endorsing the policies of the Bush-Cheney White House and promising to actually continue the same policies over again? Hey, I believe in recycling but that's ridiculous.

  Al Gore

  Believe, White, House

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• It is ridiculous, frighteningly ridiculous to make wars in the name of peace.

  Samael Aun Weor

  War, Names

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• A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

  James Gibbons

  Clergymen, Wells, Rulers

  James Gibbons (2014). “The Faith of Our Fathers”, p.145, The Floating Press

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• With technology expanding at this ridiculous pace, bit by bit we're losing our humanity and our ability to connect with each other without having electronic media in the middle.

  Walter Trout

  Technology, Media, Humanity

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• That I'm an alcoholic is completely ridiculous.

  Shannen Doherty

  Alcoholics

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• It used to be embarrassing. In the beginning, because you listen to yourself so much, you think, I must look like an asshole right now - or sound like an asshole. And then, you just get to that point where you've done so many ridiculous, ridiculous things in the booth from screaming, to having orgasms, to whatever your director is asking you to do for this character, you just lose your inhibitions.

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Character, Thinking, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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