Ridiculous Quotes - Page 2

• You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Believe, People, Novelists

  "Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups" by Robert Anton Wilson, (p. 16), 1998.

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• I can go right, I can go left, I'm amphibious.

  Charles Shackleford

  Funny, Sports, Left

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• In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime

  Ben Sidran

  Wine, Sublime, World

  Ben Sidran (2011). “A Life in the Music”, p.223, BookBaby

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• It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

  Henri Rousseau

  Guilt, Criminals, Shame

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• JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kings, Utterance, Amusement

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• This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.

  Paul Krugman

  Opposites, Usual, Analysis

  "The Economist", October 26, 2013.

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• I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.

  Jim Henson

  Crazy, People, Optimism

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• They have said this is a lower level. Ridiculous! They're really both the same light, just two different forms.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Two

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• It's never been bad or ridiculous. I know who I am and what I've done, and I'm really comfortable with myself.

  Tina Yothers

  Who I Am, Done, Knows

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• To say I have played through four World Cups, two Lions tours, 91 international games and a ridiculous number of injuries and other setbacks gives me an incredibly special feeling of fulfilment. I know myself well enough to know that I will never truly be satisfied.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Games, Two, Numbers

  "Rugby legend Wilkinson quits England", www.cnn.com. December 12, 2011.

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• There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

  Josef Skvorecky

  Book, Fall, Perfection

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• I look ridiculous in a three-piece suit - I'm too fat.

  Dominic West

  Suits, Three, Looks

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

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• I'm a dad now and whatever I'm doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it - usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.

  Jeremy Sisto

  Dad, Effort, Too Much

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• To get involved with some ridiculous battle of power with someone else will use up your energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Battle, Energy, Use

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• Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Believe, Divorce, America

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• I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Mom, Crazy, Gymnastics

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• Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless.

  Ray Bradbury

  Years, Giving, Useless

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• I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Car, Looks, Generations

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• I sign every autograph I can for kids because I remember myself at that age. I think it's ridiculous that some guys won't sign for a kid.

  Jim Thome

  Kids, Thinking, Guy

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

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• It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.

  Francis Chan

  Punishment, Clay, Arrogant

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2011). “Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up”, p.88, David C Cook

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• In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

  John Ralston Saul

  Doubt, Doe, Individual

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I do lead a careful diet, I don't overeat, I have fruit and vegetables every day and I drink a lot of water. And my darling wife keeps me so young it is ridiculous. Being with her is an inspiration as well.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Inspiration, Vegetables, Water

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• And I love Jennifer Lawrence. She's a total fox. And such a good actress. It's ridiculous.

  Evan Peters

  Foxes, Actresses, Jennifer

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

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• I'm into everything. My iPod is very eclectic - if you kept it on shuffle, you'd be amazed. For example, I was forced to grow up on Dolly Parton. My mum was obsessed by her. She bought all this memorabilia for the front room. It's ridiculous.

  Tinie Tempah

  Growing Up, Ipods, Example

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• In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Thinking

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