Ridiculous Quotes - Page 28

• I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. ... That can keep me awake for days.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Morning, Humor

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• It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely.

  Mario Bunge

  Moving, Light, World

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• It's crazy to think of myself as a musician. It's ridiculous that I get to do it, and I don't necessarily mean music. Getting to do something you really enjoy as a job is an incredible privilege, I think. I still don't really feel like a musician outside of the actual music.

  Ben Rector

  Jobs, Crazy, Mean

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• I tend to sit around with my friends a lot and rant and rave about things I think are ridiculous in the world, and I tend to make fun of myself a lot.

  Tom Green

  Fun, Thinking, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think I was always realistic - well, not the Percy thing, that was ridiculous - but I never dreamed of being a racing car driver or anything.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Thinking, Car, Racing

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but it's always nourishing, in a way. You recognize it. You can feel it. And even if [readers] think, "My god, I would never get in those situations," within those ridiculous circumstances that I have created for myself, they know the way I respond is probably what they would do too.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Thinking, Matter, Way

  Source: content.time.com

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• Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

  Voltaire

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.

  Ansel Elgort

  Crazy, Thinking, Would Be

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• I hate to say "found himself" - it sounds so ridiculous.

  Henry Cavill

  Hate, Sound, Found

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• We see everything. We see what celebrities buy at the supermarket. It's ridiculous. It's that visibility. I'm confused by this whole celebrity-obsessed culture.

  Eva Mendes

  Confused, Culture, Visibility

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• Your Western ideas about love are ridiculous. A woman is put on earth to please a man and a man should have many women, and a woman should only have one man.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Men, Should Have, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and poachers, to the censorship of literature, art and television: from St Alban through Wilde, Joyce and Lawrence I think we can point with pride to as grim a catalogue of intemperate, bigoted repression as any nation on earth.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Pride, Thinking

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• I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion journals and all the rest of it. I think it's terribly important that this be taught in the public schools, because otherwise, we're gonna get to a situation because of economic pressures and other things where television's all you've got left. And that would be disastrous. We can't cover the news in a half-hour event evening. That's ridiculous.

  Walter Cronkite

  Believe, School, Thinking

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• One of the things I like about doing science, the thing that is the most fun, is coming up with something that seems ridiculous when you first hear it but finally seems obvious when you're finished.

  Fischer Black

  Fun, Firsts, Obvious

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• I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

  John Cleese

  Crazy, Thinking, Long

  Interview with David Morgan, www.cbsnews.com. October 25, 2015.

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• I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where, uh, we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I mean, it's just kind of ridiculous.

  Thomas Roberts

  Mean, Voting, Machines

  "MSNBC's Thomas Roberts: GOP Wants to Go Back to When No Women Voted, 'Slavery Was Cool'" by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. September 23, 2011.

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• We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.

  Bhagat Singh

  Pain, Struggle, People

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.

  Al Jaffee

  Writing, Expression, Drawing

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• I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.

  Eve Ensler

  Grateful, Alive, Grateful To Be Alive

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• It's ridiculous to insinuate that the social recognition of homosexual civil unions damages families or the institution of marriage.

  Jens Spahn

  Unions, Damage, Recognition

  "Out on the Right: On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". Interview with Markus Feldenkirchen and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 23, 2012.

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• I do sort of feel like I'm building my monument with what I do, but it's pretty small and inconsequential compared to real works of genius like this, which are giving vast inspiration to humanity. But I guess I shouldn't even say that. It's ridiculous to say that. You are what you are. My stature suits me.

  Jim Woodring

  Real, Inspiration, Giving

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

  Laura Owens

  Painting, Shame, Feels

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• We shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request.

  Mr. Krabs

  Guests, Deny, Request

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• As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that modern day Australia is anything other than a grand - and successful - outpost of
  Euro-colonialism and, more specifically Anglo-Celt British colonialism. It's a fact of life like the Euro-colonization of the Americas etc. If it was an outpost of, let's say, Iranian or Zimbabwean colonialism would so many people still be so desperately trying to get into Australia by any means necessary, legal or otherwise? It's doubtful. Thank the Gods for Euro-colonialism!

  Douglas Pearce

  Mean, Successful, Australia

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• The ridiculous is closer to life's source than the sensible.

  Barry Webster

  Source, Sensible

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