Ridiculous Quotes - Page 18

• Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.

  Boy George

  Stars, Doors, Names

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Of course the self-serving bias is something you want to get out of yourself. Thinking that what's good for you is good for the wider civilization and rationalizing all these ridiculous conclusions based on this subconscious tendency to serve one's self is a terribly inaccurate way to think.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Self, Civilization

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• I'm not one of those artists who refuses to play their hits. I find that ridiculous. Hits are a blessing.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Artist, Blessing, Play

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• The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

  Edmund Burke

  Excess, Causes, Sometimes

  Edmund Burke (2008). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke”, p.455, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?'

  Vivien Leigh

  Tired, Stories, Today

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• We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)

  Robert Wright

  Mean, Trying, Peculiar

  "The Moral Animal". Book by Robert Wright, www.wired.com. 1994.

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• Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.

  Charlie Munger

  Past, Would Be, Records

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• I want to shout out the stars on the walk of fame because they said something about they're not going to put my girl on the Walk of Fame because she's a reality star. It's like, people are so so dated and not modern. There's no way that Kim Kardashian should not have a star on the Walk of Fame. It's ridiculous concepts. I'm just going to give y'all the truth and you're just going to love it.

  Kanye West

  Girl, Stars, Reality

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• It's outrageous. It's ridiculous. And 'twas ever thus. We all watched James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriends got younger and younger. It's so annoying.

  Helen Mirren

  Girlfriend, Annoying, Outrageous

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• John McCain is now openly endorsing the policies of the Bush-Cheney White House and promising to actually continue the same policies over again? Hey, I believe in recycling but that's ridiculous.

  Al Gore

  Believe, White, House

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• The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Democracy, Forfeit

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Diary of H. L. Mencken”, p.281, Vintage

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• It's ridiculous for a woman to say that she's not attracted to other women. That's completely false.

  Grace Jones

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• Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it.

  Henry Ford

  Writing, Use It Or Lose It, Legs

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• It is ridiculous, frighteningly ridiculous to make wars in the name of peace.

  Samael Aun Weor

  War, Names

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• A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

  James Gibbons

  Clergymen, Wells, Rulers

  James Gibbons (2014). “The Faith of Our Fathers”, p.145, The Floating Press

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• [Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Running, Ignorance, Way

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• With technology expanding at this ridiculous pace, bit by bit we're losing our humanity and our ability to connect with each other without having electronic media in the middle.

  Walter Trout

  Technology, Media, Humanity

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• That I'm an alcoholic is completely ridiculous.

  Shannen Doherty

  Alcoholics

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• People don't like what I represent, and they think I'm trying to represent the whole gay community just because I'm a gay person and I make music. By default I'm supposed to represent a whole community? I think that's ridiculous.

  Steve Grand

  Gay, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jim Halterman, www.newnownext.com. March 23, 2015.

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• I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to get into some "future of the music industry" thing, or where I stand on digital this or that, but I think it's ridiculous that a lot of people in the industry plan so far ahead that it makes a lot of improvisation impossible and makes a lot of people's expectations fixed and not fluid.

  Bradford Cox

  Thinking, People, Expectations

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• It used to be embarrassing. In the beginning, because you listen to yourself so much, you think, I must look like an asshole right now - or sound like an asshole. And then, you just get to that point where you've done so many ridiculous, ridiculous things in the booth from screaming, to having orgasms, to whatever your director is asking you to do for this character, you just lose your inhibitions.

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Character, Thinking, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• For a relative newcomer, it's obviously a dream to work with such a talented actress as Anna Paquin, who won an Oscar at 10, or something ridiculous like that. That's a dream.

  Giles Matthey

  Dream, Oscars, Actresses

  Source: collider.com

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• Where you have a villain in the piece or the antagonist, whatever you want to call them, there has to be humanity at the core of it or it's faintly ridiculous. Nobody is just villain through and through. You have to feel something for them.

  Scott Hicks

  Humanity, Pieces, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you'll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Reality, Russia, Suffering

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Past, Thinking, World

  Source: collider.com

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