Ridiculous Quotes - Page 38

• I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

  John Corigliano

  England, British, Mediocre

  "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.

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• You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.

  Vince Cable

  Party, Winning, Government

  "Vince Cable: 'What we're managing is quite a difficult situation'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2010.

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• I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics.

  Danielle Dax

  People, Feelings, Different

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• Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?

  Gilles Duceppe

  Army, Quebec

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• I was freaking out when Brooks & Dunn were breaking up. I thought 'We play a ton of rodeos, and I thought this was such a cowboy deal, and I don't wear a hat. They might not think I'm a cowboy. That might sound ridiculous to a lot of people, but apparently, it meant something to me. I wound up with a cowboy tattoo from my elbow to my wrist.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Tattoo, Cowboy, Thinking

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• At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.

  Guy Berryman

  School, Thinking, White

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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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• Richard and I, along with millions of Americans - including even Joe Donnelly - believe that life is a gift from God. To try and construe his words as anything other than a restatement of that belief is irresponsible and ridiculous.

  John Cornyn

  Believe, Trying, Belief

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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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• 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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• 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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• A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.

  Niall Horan

  Gun, Names, America

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• A lot of things went incredibly well for 'Scrubs': from a ridiculous number of downloads on the iPods, to whenever they issue a new season on DVD it kinda sells out, and we got nominated for an Emmy. To be picked up for six years is all gravy, man.

  John C. McGinley

  Men, Ipods, Numbers

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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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• In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I wore…Still, I've always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.

  Kim Gordon

  Fashion, Class, Icons

  Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.113, Faber & Faber

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• Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market.

  Bill Gross

  Yield, Bears, Despite

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• Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the 'quote' attributed to Keynes (but never documented): 'The market can stay irrational longer than the investor can stay solvent.' For us agents, he might better have said 'The market can stay irrational longer than the client can stay patient.'

  Jeremy Grantham

  Intelligent, Reality, Clients

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• For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are...businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but -- ominously -- fewer and fewer people laugh at it.

  Neal Ascherson

  Past, Government, Years

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• I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it with aliens or monsters or something that's intentionally foreign, but I have yet to see anything digital to do with the human face that doesn't just look ridiculous.

  Rian Johnson

  Thinking, Monsters, Looks

  "Rian Johnson on his writing process and the appeal of alternate-history films". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

  Jackie Mason

  Believe, Different, Reason

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

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