Ridiculous Quotes - Page 16

• I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

  John Cleese

  Crazy, Thinking, Long

  Interview with David Morgan, www.cbsnews.com. October 25, 2015.

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• Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

  Socrates

  Clever, Friendly, Hostile

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• Your fingernails are a joke, you've got no fangs, you can't see at night, your pink hides are ridiculous, your reflexes are nil, and you don't even have tails! Of course people aren't content! ... Now if tigers weren't content, that would be something to wonder about.

  Bill Watterson

  Night, People, Would Be

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• I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where, uh, we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I mean, it's just kind of ridiculous.

  Thomas Roberts

  Mean, Voting, Machines

  "MSNBC's Thomas Roberts: GOP Wants to Go Back to When No Women Voted, 'Slavery Was Cool'" by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. September 23, 2011.

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• We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.

  Bhagat Singh

  Pain, Struggle, People

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

  David Shrigley

  Elements, Want, Satire

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.

  Al Jaffee

  Writing, Expression, Drawing

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• I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.

  Eve Ensler

  Grateful, Alive, Grateful To Be Alive

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if you have money you're smarter, which Donald Trump by himself should be able to disprove.

  Gloria Steinem

  Class, Ideas, Racist

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.

  Gloria Steinem

  Adventure, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If a parent wants to choose where their kid goes to school, they can either fork over a whole bunch of money in tuition for private school or they can buy a new house near the school of their choice. And it's driving up property prices in certain key areas. When you stop and think about it, that's kind of ridiculous.

  Amelia Warren Tyagi

  School, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's ridiculous to insinuate that the social recognition of homosexual civil unions damages families or the institution of marriage.

  Jens Spahn

  Unions, Damage, Recognition

  "Out on the Right: On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". Interview with Markus Feldenkirchen and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 23, 2012.

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• I do sort of feel like I'm building my monument with what I do, but it's pretty small and inconsequential compared to real works of genius like this, which are giving vast inspiration to humanity. But I guess I shouldn't even say that. It's ridiculous to say that. You are what you are. My stature suits me.

  Jim Woodring

  Real, Inspiration, Giving

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• I think my work is optimistic - as much as it is pathetic and funny and sad and ridiculous, at the end of the day it's about the hope that something will go right, and the constant wishing for a world where things might start to make sense.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Optimistic, Thinking, Wish

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

  Laura Owens

  Painting, Shame, Feels

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• We shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request.

  Mr. Krabs

  Guests, Deny, Request

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• Write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount. You have to write so much that you don't mind throwing away and changing things that you've written - which is the second thing you have to do. A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not as good as you think you are, at least not yet. The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.

  Josh Lieb

  Mean, Writing, Thinking

  "Wanna write for Latenight? Get tips from a 'Tonight Show' producer". Interview with Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. April 05, 2015.

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• We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.

  Andrew VanWyngarden

  Thinking, People, Serious

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• As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that modern day Australia is anything other than a grand - and successful - outpost of
  Euro-colonialism and, more specifically Anglo-Celt British colonialism. It's a fact of life like the Euro-colonization of the Americas etc. If it was an outpost of, let's say, Iranian or Zimbabwean colonialism would so many people still be so desperately trying to get into Australia by any means necessary, legal or otherwise? It's doubtful. Thank the Gods for Euro-colonialism!

  Douglas Pearce

  Mean, Successful, Australia

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• The ridiculous is closer to life's source than the sensible.

  Barry Webster

  Source, Sensible

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• Oh, all those ridiculous people with zero talent who spend their lives making sure everyone knows their name. Those stupid, stupid people.

  Jeremy Renner

  Zero, Stupid, Names

  "The Bourne Legacy's Jeremy Renner, action hero at last". Interview with Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2012.

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• Regrets are ridiculous, so I don’t regret, no.

  Nicole Kidman

  Regret, Don't Regret

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Apr 05, 2014

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• The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.

  Paul Valery

  Attitude, Justice, Judging

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• I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

  Mary Harron

  Feminism, Film, Rejects

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• I tell young girls, "The world is going to exploit and manipulate your sexuality. If you benefit from that financially, then you are part of the problem." That said, I thought all those parents flipping out over the Video Music Awards were ridiculous - women have been twerking in clubs for 20, 30 years. There's a real lack of awareness about what's going on across many layers of our culture.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Girl, Real, Awards

  Source: www.glamour.com

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