Absurd Quotes - Page 25

• I think my favourite memory from filming 'Jurassic World' would just be a compilation of me running through the jungle in heels, and just how absurd that really was. That that actually happened.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Running, Memories, Thinking

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• But the poetry side is what appeals more to me today. Metaphor, just absurd linkages and coming up with categories, labeling, taxonomy, and I'd say that I do have some tools left. There are days I can't make a sentence out of anything, and anything I make looks clunky to me. But I still have a general grasp of the cliché, of the generic sentence. And if I didn't have that, I'd be a blob of putty on the floor.

  Richard Meltzer

  Tools, Looks, Taxonomy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly advocate an absurd amount of specification to go along with the label.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Migrants, Labels, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am 100 percent confident. This is a security review that was requested. It is being carried out. It will be resolved. But I have to add if there's going to be a security review about me, there's going to have to be security reviews about a lot of other people, including Republican office holders, because we've got this absurd situation of retroactive classifications.

  Hillary Clinton

  Office, People, Add

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• We all get one life to live here. It's 2012, and for gay and lesbian couples who are in love, not to be able to be married is so absurd.

  Howard Stern

  Couple, Gay, Able

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• There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."

  Lou Doillon

  Smart, Thinking, Next Day

  "Lou Doillon’s Canadian Love Affair". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. Interview with February 19, 2016.

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• In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of children already are on tranquilizers, for example, and that is absurd.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Children, May, Example

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Nearly everybody nowadays accepts the 'causal completeness of physics' - every physical event (or at least its probability) has a full physical cause. This leaves no room for non-physical things to make a causal difference to physical effects. But it would be absurd to deny that thoughts and feelings (and population movements and economic depressions . . .) cause physical effects. So they must be physical things.

  David Papineau

  Differences, Feelings, Events

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I've tried to be clear about who I am, and be as open as possible with the press, and speak extremely candidly and openly about stuff. I feel like in almost every instance, it's completely backfired, and I feel like people have all these kind of absurd ideas about the way I think about myself, and my own self-identity.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Thinking, Self, Who I Am

  "Interview: Diiv On Their Sophomore Album, 'Is The Is Are'". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and frightening.

  David O. Russell

  Christian, Criticize, Extremes

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• The child says, "Well geesh, the institutions that I'm supposed to respect - the church and the government - they're telling me things that don't appear to be true. Either I'm crazy or they're crazy." That creates the Absurd Child. The Absurd Child is one who says, "Well, I think they're crazy." So you live in this state of alienation from your culture and your society and your family because you see this rampant bullshit around you.

  Harold Ramis

  Children, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Vaclav Havel was the most amazing man in terms of being the combination of somebody with massive moral authority, great courage for having espoused the concepts of democracy, freedom throughout a very difficult communist period, a very modest man, and somebody with a fabulous sense of humor and the idea of being able to see the absurd in situations.

  Judy Woodruff

  Men, Ideas, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

  David Longstreth

  Thinking, America, People

  "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.

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• But the Iranians are surrounded by a sea of Sunnis who hate them. And if you look on the map, you can see that they're also surrounded by a bunch of American bases that certainly could hit them at any moment. The idea that the Iranians are a threat to the United States is absurd really. How are they going to hurt the United States of America? Unless we attack them first and then they use terrorism inside America.

  Michael Scheuer

  Hurt, Hate, Sea

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am a big fan of the Coen Brothers; I like their kind of absurd, dark approach.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Brother, Dark, Fans

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like things to be a little bit absurd. But I don't really like playing covers.

  Spencer Krug

  Littles, Bits, Little Bit

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Ideas, People, Human Nature

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• The notion that you go to a public institution in order to learn private information about yourself is absurd. We used to understand that when students went to universities, they would become cosmopolitan. They were leaving their neighborhoods.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Order, Leaving, Information

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

  Jimenez Lai

  World, Achieve, Settings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.

  Malachy McCourt

  Stuff, Way, Looks

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

  Malachy McCourt

  Rights, Giving, Corporations

  Source: bigthink.com

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• And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something that at our company we're kind of, we're so irreverent about everything, we're sort of irreverent about the establishment, we're irreverent about civilization, we're irreverent about philosophy, we're irreverent about religion.

  Brian Henson

  Philosophy, Civilization, Trying

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Years, Ideas, Islam

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly, without question, even when everyone else is questioning how good (or sane) they are.

  John Eliot

  Faith, Believe, Achievement

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• The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you and I rejected long ago. The Bible says that women are property, that homosexuals ought to be put to death, that anybody who worships a false God ought to be executed, that a child that talks back to his parents ought to be stoned at the gates of the city. Those ideas are absurd.

  John Shelby Spong

  Children, Cities, Ideas

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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