Silly Quotes - Page 5

• I like being absurd. Being silly.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Being Silly, Absurd

  "Men of the Year 2011: Showmen: Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon". Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. November 14, 2011.

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  'Have fun' is my message. Be silly. You're allowed to be silly. There's nothing wrong with it.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Fun, Messages, Having Fun

  "Jimmy Fallon: The New King of Late Night TV" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. March 20, 2013.

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• AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

  Jerry Falwell

  Stupid, Punishment, Scary

  "Grand Theft Jesus". Book by Robert S. McElvaine, 2008.

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• They misunderestimated me.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Hilarious, Stupid

  "Top 10 Bushisms". content.time.com.

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• At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, Fiction, Littles

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• I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Stupid, Thinking, Done

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.94, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

  Frank Lampard

  Careers, Challenges, Age

  "Frank Lampard fears for World Cup place as England prepare for Chile" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2013.

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• You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.

  Queen Latifah

  Smart, Sometimes, Silly Things

  "Queen Latifah Addresses Serious Issues with Life Support". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. February 26, 2007.

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• What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Stupid

  William Law (1739). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. By William Law, A.M.”, p.120

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• When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Stupid, Young, You Re Stupid

  Launch.com interview, October 30, 1998.

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• I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

  John Legend

  Kings, School, Kids

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2006.

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• We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 49, 1799.

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• I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Girlfriend, Just Being, Bedroom

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• Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

  John Major

  Clever, Stupid, People

  1991 Quoted in the Observer, 7 Jul.

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• I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

  Michael Palin

  Stupid, Wanted, Persons

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• Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.

  Jane Pauley

  Call Me

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• I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Intelligent, Facts, Graphic Novels

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• I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.

  Dennis Quaid

  Mother, Growing Up, Drinking

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• Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

  Dan Quayle

  Stupidity, President, Fool

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• I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

  Anna Quindlen

  Husband, President, Hats

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• There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

  Ayn Rand

  Funny, Crazy, Humor

  "The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution". Book by Ayn Rand, p. 123, 1971.

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• And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

  Dan Rather

  Stupid, Order, Dumb

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• Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Marriage, Crazy

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• It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Christmas, Country

  Ronald Reagan (1968). “I goofed: the wise and curious sayings of Ronald Reagan, 33rd Governor of California”

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• Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.

  Jerry Saltz

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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