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• Petitions are ridiculous.

  Shane MacGowan

  Petitions

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• I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age.

  Regis Philbin

  Thinking, Doctors, Years

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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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• 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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• My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

  Hannah Simone

  Growing Up, Thinking, Want

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hannah Simone". www.esquire.com. April 23, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

  David Pogue

  Refining, Amount

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• This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as youth. ... In comic fashion people call themselves "young," because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity. ...[T]he astounding thing at present is that these take it as an effective right precisely in order to claim for themselves all those other rights which only belong to the man who has already done something.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Fashion, Fighting, Maturity

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1929.

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• For those that have said I seemed dickish to some of the nuttier guests on Joe Rogan Questions Everything - guilty as charged. As the season wore on I lost my patience with some of those folks unfortunately. I think I overdosed on ridiculous/likely fake stories. I certainly learned a lot about the kind of people that invest a large portion of their life on fringe subjects - they're all white. I think there's something interesting about the subjects, (UFOS, etc) but the study of them has often been overrun by silly thinking.

  Joe Rogan

  Silly, Thinking, White

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• I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you -- the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what's wrong and try to make it better. That's what a patriotic American does.

  Andy Rooney

  Country, Mean, Patriotic

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• The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation

  Henry Fielding

  Source

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Joseph Andrews and Shamela”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I have never tried to project the Creator in any kind of human likeness. The vociferous debates about whether God is male or female seem ridiculous to me. I think of God as an omnipotent and omniscient presence, a spirit that permeates the universe, the essence of truth, nature, being, and life. To me, these are profound and indescribable concepts that seem to be trivialized when expressed in words.

  Jimmy Carter

  God, Thinking, Essence

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.222, Three Rivers Press

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• Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.

  Jenny Hval

  Healthy, Enemy, Important

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Serious, Problem, Goodness

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.101, Springer Science & Business Media

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• One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Fire, Average, Dollar Bills

  "Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays". Book by Thomas Sowell, 1999.

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• The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Queens, Moon, White

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• L'homme est ne   pour la socie  te  ; se  parez-le, isolez-le, ses ide  es se de  suniront, son caracte'  re se tournera, mille affections ridicules s'e  le'  veront dans son coeur; des 274 pense  es extravagantes germeront dans son esprit, comme les ronces dans une terre sauvage. Man is born to live in society: separate him, isolate him, and his ideas disintegrate, his character changes, a thousand ridiculous affectations rise up in his heart; extreme thoughts take hold in his mind, like the brambles in a wild field.

  Denis Diderot

  Heart, Character, Son

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• It’s such a floating freak show. You get a bit older and you start to see what’s going on backstage in the collective psyche of this ridiculous industry. … Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I’m just another schmuck that they’re bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Please Me, Bored, Floating

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• Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.

  Mika

  Mean, Blue, People

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• I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not.

  R. D. Laing

  Feels

  R. D. Laing (2008). “Knots”, p.68, Marbot Ediciones

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