Silly Quotes - Page 26

• If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, its silly.

  Mathieu Amalric

  Sense Of Humor, Cannes, Approach

  The Hollywood Reporter interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 11, 2010.

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• Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

  Hank Azaria

  Character, Voice, Trying

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• The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.

  Robert Frost

  Dog, Pups, Remember

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted

  George Best

  Funny, Drink, Hilarious Sports

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• Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

  Alfred Bester

  Fiction, Nonsense, Science Fiction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.

  Tim Heidecker

  Mom, Sarcastic, Dad

  "Tim & Eric". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• Don't be silly. I'll write you twice a week.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny Love, Writing, Week

  "Fictional character: Wolf J. Flywheel". "The Big Store", 1941.

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• Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Music, Humorous

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

  Carolyn Wells

  Stupid, Fate, Simple

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• You always feel quite vulnerable when you're naked on a set. You feel quite silly, actually. And with the green screen around you, it's not that sexy. But, it looks stunning. It's art. It's not vulgar. It's not indecent. It's not realistic. It's beautiful, I think.

  Eva Green

  Beautiful, Sexy, Art

  "Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller Talk SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR". Press conference, collider.com. August 19, 2014.

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• I originally wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to be Kylie Minogue. My dad thought that was a very silly ambition and introduced me to drama classes. Once I became fixated on that, there was no stopping me.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Stars, Dad, Drama

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

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• Just because I had a winner, it doesn't mean I'm gonna be like, "OK, I need a new 'Successful.'" That's silly. I just don't want anything to sound like anything else, which I hope is everybody's vision.

  Drake

  Mean, Successful, Vision

  "Drake: I Remain Calm (2010 Cover Story)". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. May 2, 2016.

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• But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?

  William Cobbett

  Fate, Monsters, Empires

  William Cobbett (2011). “Rural Rides (Two Volumes in One)”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly as the idea that they can communicate by a spoken language without commonly accepted semantic and grammatical rules.

  Judith Martin

  Ideas, People, Language

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.

  Gail Sheehy

  America, Doe, Prostitution

  Gail Sheehy (1973). “Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• If you seek to change your life and attain enlightenment, you must deal with these questions. If there is no truth in this, then ignore these silly words.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Changing Your Life

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• The way you become happy is by realizing that there is no self. No self at all, not a silly millimeter of self. You don't exist. When you know this, you will be happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Way, Realizing

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• I think the talent is there to get to Super Bowl 5.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Thinking, Nfl, Talent

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• I think he's the best quarterback in this game.

  Andre Johnson

  Thinking, Games, Nfl

  "Andre Johnson says Andrew Luck is best QB in NFL" by Mike Wells, abcnews.go.com. June 9, 2015.

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• The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.

  Freya Stark

  Animal, House, Camels

  Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.121, The Overlook Press

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• I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

  Susan Sontag

  Education, Book, Pride

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• If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Believe, Mind, Pops

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• It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.

  Steve Case

  Thinking, Expectations, Trends

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• There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the definition of 'feminist' when it's already the definition of 'silly'?

  Meghan Daum

  Feminist, Definitions, Calling

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• Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

  Joseph Addison

  Opportunity, Men, Giving

  Joseph Addison (2010). “Addison's Essays”, p.133, Wildside Press LLC

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