Ridiculous Quotes - Page 35

• I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

  Kate Mara

  Sharks, Water, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous!

  Johnny Thunders

  Eight, Attention, Paper

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• The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

  Jane D. Hull

  Lakes, Ideas, Draining

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• This is a slippery slope in addition to that. At what point are we going to OK marrying inanimate objects? Can - can I marry this table, or this, you know, clock? Can we marry dogs? This is ridiculous.

  Rebecca Kleefisch

  Christian, Dog, Men

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 29, 2010.

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• I don't do match cuts really. That's a ridiculous thing to say - I do. But we always explore how we can propel a scene, and that's including dialogue, without doing match cuts. Because the audience is really willing to accept a lot of discontinuity.

  Sally Menke

  Cutting, Scene, Accepting

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• I knew that I would have to be brave. Not foolhardy, not in love with risk and danger, not making ridiculous exhibitions of myself to prove that I wasn't terrified--really genuinely brave. Brave enough to be quiet when quiet was called for, brave enough to observe before flinging myself into something, brave enough to not abandon my true self when someone else wanted to seduce or force me in a direction I didn't want to go, brave enough to stand my ground quietly.

  Piper Kerman

  Self, Brave, Risk

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• The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

  Rivka Galchen

  Humble, Answers, Modesty

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• The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous.

  Bill Frist

  Mean, Eye, Blind

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• Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.

  James Russell Lowell

  Brave, Simplicity, Truth Is

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.433, Delphi Classics

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• There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Neighbor, Ridicule, Magnificent

  "Oeuvres, Dialogues des Morts". Book by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (Chapter IV), traslated, 1683.

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• The awards world can be ridiculous, but I'm not one to bash it. I love awards! When I've been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn't have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class.

  Paul Feig

  Stars, Awards, Class

  "Q&A: Paul Feig". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 20, 2011.

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• Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

  Alanis Morissette

  Peace, Grease, Tea

  Song: So Pure, Album: Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, 1998

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• [A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all their wits were boiled into one, anything so curious and so ridiculous as a lobster.

  Charles Kingsley

  Science, Men, Lobster

  Charles Kingsley (2013). “The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• To state that the cost of proper medical care itself surpasses the financial resources of any of the countries in the West is of course ridiculous, not the least when one considers the other purposes for which money is freely being used and working hours spent.

  Karl Evang

  Country, Health, Care

  Karl Evang (1960). “Health service, society, and medicine: present day health services in their relation to medical science and social structures”

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• I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

  Puff Daddy

  Silly, Men, Biggie

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• As tempting as it seems to wear tennis shoes with your tux, don't do it. I think it looks ridiculous. If you're 14 years old, maybe give it a shot. In general, don't portray anything that says 'I'm too cool and I don't care.

  Paul Feig

  Thinking, Shoes, Years

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• And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.

  Rube Goldberg

  Weight, Earth, Care

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• I've learned to not care. There are always going to be ridiculous rumours.

  Kim Kardashian

  Rumours

  "Kim Kardashian: 'I want to be more of a private person'" by Jo Usmar, www.mirror.co.uk. April 04, 2012.

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• I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

  Laura Marling

  Jobs, Believe, Sound

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

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• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Patents, Would Be, May

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• I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

  Plutarch

  Men, Years, Medicine

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• It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.

  Damien Hirst

  Believe, Belief, I Can

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• As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Fear, Roots, Evil

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• I have been sent more ridiculous press notices. People are frequently comparing my work with Van Gogh... I do hope I do not get bloated and self-satisfied. When proud feelings come I step up over them to the realm of work, to the thing I want, the liveness of the thing itself.

  Emily Carr

  Self, People, Feelings

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• What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!

  Mervyn Peake

  Time, Hands, Circles

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.239, The Overlook Press

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