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• To you a pious young girl who goes to mass and communion, seems pretty silly and childish; you take us for innocents... Well, let me tell you, sometimes we know more about evil than people who have only learned to offend God.

  Georges Bernanos

  Girl, People, Evil

  "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.

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• It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

  Gordon Bethune

  Sound, Culture, Way

  Gordon Bethune (1999). “From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback”, Wiley

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• Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

  Jane Asher

  Dressing Up, Acting, Levels

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

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• I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You [immigrants] have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things.

  Mona Sahlin

  Jealous, Thinking, Together

  "Multiculturalists Working to Undermine Western Civilization" by Philip Carl Salzman, www.gatestoneinstitute.org. December 16, 2017.

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• In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned cheeks.  this is not mere soft-mindedness, nor am I all that silly with the altitude.  My head has cleared in these weeks free of intrusions- mail, telephones, people and their needs- and I respond to things spontaneously, without defensive or self-conscious screens.  Still, all this feeling is astonishing: not so long ago I could say truthfully that I had not shed a tear in twenty years.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Eye, Long Ago, Years

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.138, Penguin

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• You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

  Tom Rachman

  Birth, Nonsense, Born

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• Now, the question of the hour is, "Who's got the Pandorica?" Answer: I do. Next question: Who's coming to take it from me? Come on! Look at me! No plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn! Oh, and something else, I don't have anything to lose! So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, and then, do the smart thing: Let somebody else try first.

  Matt Smith

  Smart, Gun, Black

  "Fictional character: The Doctor". TV Series "Doctor Who" ("The Pandorica Opens", 2010), (2005- ).

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• Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Girl, Mind, Rebellious

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• Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do.

  Craig Stone

  Running, Argument, Sometimes

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• Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly

  Hank Green

  Thoughtful, Stills, Excluded

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• The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Pain, Choices

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• I love stories where the impossible appears believable, plausible and real. Maybe it's silly, but it's one of the reasons Michael Crichton's writing always appealed to me: he took outlandish ideas and made them seem completely within the realm of possibility. I remember reading "Jurassic Park" and feeling like: "Oh, yeah - no, that's totally happening right now. They're bringing back dinosaurs!"

  J. J. Abrams

  Real, Reading, Writing

  "J. J. Abrams: By the Book". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. October 24, 2013.

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• It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they going to stop playing these three chords?' If you believe you shouldn't play just three chords it's pretty silly on their part. To us, the simpler a song is, the better, 'cause it's more in line with what the person on the street is.

  Angus Young

  Song, Believe, Rocks

  Atlanta Gazette Interview, May 1979.

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• Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party.

  Antony Sher

  Party, Opposites, Actors

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• What would the world be like if you had to develop a power yourself before you could use it? Just as a silly example: How would the comment section on YouTube change if, to use it, you had to have the schooling necessary to have a basic understanding of how computers and the internet work? More seriously, would anyone smart enough to know how to design and build a tank, or a laser guided anti-aircraft missile, or a computer and video editing software be stupid enough to join ISIS? In fact, if such knowledge was required—would it even be possible for there to be standing armies?

  John C. Wright

  Stupid, Smart, Army

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• The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Imagination, Mistress, Comedy

  Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.146, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time

  Jude Morgan

  Thinking, Silliness, Acknowledge

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• If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.

  Richard Mitchell

  Thinking, Choices, May

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• You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week.

  Stephen Manes

  Song, Fun, Stupid

  Stephen Manes (1998). “Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!”, Yearling

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• What a vast Traffick is drove, what a variety of Labour is performed in the World to the Maintenance of Thousands of Families that altogether depend on two silly if not odious Customs; the taking of Snuff and smoking of Tobacco; both which it is certain do infinitely more hurt than good to those that are addicted to them!

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Hurt, Two, Smoking

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.194, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Love is a grin, a look in the eye whispering what are we doing, appearing in silly arguments had for the sake of them.

  Craig Stone

  Eye, Love Is, Looks

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• Confidence is a static state. Determination is active. Determination allows for doubt and for humility - both of which are critical in the world today. There is so much that we don’t know, and so much that we know we don’t know. To be overly confident or without doubt seems silly to me. Determination, on the other hand, is a commitment to win, a commitment to fight the good fight.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Determination, Humility, Commitment

  Anna Deavere Smith (2008). “Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind”, p.25, Anchor

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• My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.

  Dav Pilkey

  Notebook, Children, Writing

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

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• You're nothing but an apple, a silly t-shirt, a catchphrase and a stupid haircut.

  Randy Orton

  Stupid, Wwe, Apples

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• If I can't practice, I can't practice. It is as simple as that. I ain't about that at all. It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we're talking about practice. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last, but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?

  Allen Iverson

  Mean, Simple, Player

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