Ridiculous Quotes - Page 17

• When I moved down to Houston, I had people who were willing to support me with sponsorships and different endorsement deals. That's really how I stayed afloat. It isn't ridiculous money where you can live however you want - I still have to be disciplined - but I've been very blessed with having people to support me.

  Jonathan Horton

  Blessed, People, Support

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• I'm on my own, luckily doing well, but like I said, we don't make a ridiculous amount of money and I have to be disciplined with what I do with it.

  Jonathan Horton

  Said, Wells, Amount

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com. July 31, 2012.

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• I've always said it's flattering to be desired, just as it's flattering that people accept the reality of the character you play. But it was always ridiculous to assume that because I could play a gigolo on screen I'd play anything like that role off screen.

  Richard Gere

  Character, Reality, Play

  "The Hoax - Richard Gere interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don't see a point in advertising my marital status when men don't. Completely ridiculous.

  Gene Weingarten

  Men, Advertising

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Whenever I record something, I always believe that it's worthy of inclusion in the pantheon, and I would certainly like pianists to pay more attention to it. I think it's ridiculous now, because the range of repertoire - or what's considered 'safe' - is so narrow, even though there are pianists who are really trying to push the envelope. There is still a lack of attention, and there's no reason for it. The piano repertoire is so rich, with so many wonderful things that still are not given their due.

  Marc-Andre Hamelin

  Believe, Thinking, Piano

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. November 8, 2013.

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• To be included in the group with women like Glenn Close and Kyra Sedgwick is a little bit astonishing to me. To even be mentioned in the same sentence as Glenn Close is just ridiculous.

  Julianna Margulies

  Groups, Littles, Sentences

  Source: deadline.com

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• Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Taken, Important, Life Is

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• And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Self, People, Feelings

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• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

  William Shakespeare

  Gold, Excess, Hue

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

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• Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Silly, Men, Law

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• Always understand the risk/reward of the trade as it now stands, not as it existed when you put the position on. Some people say, "I was only playing with the market's money." That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.

  Bill Lipschutz

  People, Risk, Rewards

  "The New Market Wizards". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1992.

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• The reality is you do not know exactly what is likely to occur tomorrow. Lifetime can be a ridiculous trip, and practically nothing is confirmed.

  Eminem

  Reality, Tomorrow, Lifetime

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• I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Dog, Character

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• Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the body worse than it found it. Were not this the case, and could money be made of paper at pleasure, every sovereign in Europe would be as rich as he pleased. But the truth is, that it is a bubble and the attempt vanity. Nature has provided the proper materials for money: gold and silver, and any attempt of ours to rival her is ridiculous.

  Thomas Paine

  Drinking, Europe, Vanity

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.410

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• When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

  Thomas Paine

  Sublime, Borders, Critics

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.158

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• Well, in terms of the filming with the car, you always wanted to be on the side which the cameras weren't, because - and it sounds ridiculous, but getting in and out of that car, all in leather, in the heat, was a problem.

  Imogen Poots

  Car, Sides, Cameras

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• In terms of driving, I actually don't have a driver's license, and it's kind of ridiculous. I've lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years and just have somehow managed to avoid taking the test, which I did last week and failed. I couldn't find the honker. I felt bad about it, but it's just a little bit embarrassing, I guess, to be in this film and not have a license.

  Imogen Poots

  Couple, Years, Littles

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I had a Saturday job in a chemist. The pay was something ridiculous like £2 an hour - it was slave labour - and I spent all day cleaning shelves. On my first day an actress from Eldorado, which was on telly at the time, came in and said, 'Can I have some Replense please?' I didn't know what it was, so I had to ask her and she had to say, 'It's vaginal moisturiser,' in front of a massive queue of people. After one day I was like, 'I don't want to do this job any more, it's just boring.'

  Konnie Huq

  Jobs, People, One Day

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• No matter what happens, the world can be pretty ridiculous and people be pretty ridiculous, but how would you react? That's an easy filter to put any story through.

  Steve Dildarian

  People, Filters, Stories

  "HitFix Interview: ‘The Life and Times of Tim’ creator Steve Dildarian". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. February 17, 2010.

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• We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of taste, we choose to stop short at this point.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  People, Might, Matter

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joel Myerson (2002). “Selected Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne”, p.103, Ohio State University Press

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• Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Laughter, Thinking, Medicine

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• Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the argument is really quite ridiculous.

  Richard Dawkins

  Winning, Argument, Consciousness

  "The Flying Spaghetti Monster". Interview with Steve Paulson, www.salon.com. October 13, 2006.

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• I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Men, Age, Way

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• It is ridiculous to assume you can tax the people that are working and give the money (to people) who are not working and somehow this creates economy activity. You are destroying as much by taking from those who are working and creating.

  Yaron Brook

  Creating, People, Giving

  "The Key to Creating Jobs" by John Stossel, www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2011.

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• Leigh [Bowery] affected a posh English voice and elongated his vowels, and you never knew if he was being sincere or mocking you. If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, "Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion." And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.

  Boy George

  Boys, Voice, Vowels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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