Ridiculous Quotes - Page 29

• I know this is going to get me in trouble, but I'll say it: The whole notion that I am supposed to constantly tweet is ridiculous. There are a lot of journalists at the New York Times who tweet. I am not opposed to it. But I don't have enough time. And editors don't have much to say. My world consists of this office, this floor, my apartment and wonderful conversations with our reporters and correspondents - all of them know a lot more about the world than I do.

  Dean Baquet

  Office, World, Wonderful

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You come out of doing that kind of side of electronic music, you're gonna take that knowledge with you and not ignore it. That'd be ridiculous to spend 10 years on something and not use that as an influence.

  Jez Williams

  Kind, Influence, Electronic Music

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I can say that I'm a feminist and I try to be progressive and all that stuff. But I when I'm tired or when I've been thrown up on for the second time that I'm just a tired man trying to keep it together. I've had a lot of jobs over the years and people who make television - it's ridiculous how much they're lauded and paid. It's irresponsible and stupid. But it is hard work. It's very difficult to balance having three young kids and working like that. So I owe my wife an enormous debt of gratitude. I feel guilty that the kids had to be grown in her body and she hasn't been able to work.

  Rob Delaney

  Gratitude, Stupid, Tired

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Along the way, about certain things, you realize, "I don't know anything about this." You think, "Is this going to sound ridiculous?" So I pestered more than a hundred different people over the course of the book. And when I finished the book I gave it to six or seven trusted readers, who are always the same, but I also gave it to a brother of mine who's a doctor and I asked him to read it, and he was very helpful. It's good to have a group of trusted readers. As my kids have grown up, they've joined this group.

  Jaume Cabre

  Brother, Book, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.

  Alex Kapranos

  Football, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Facion goes in cycles but nothing has changed. When it's ridiculous it's more ridiculous than ever, and when it's wonderful it becomes more wonderful than ever because now more people think: "I dress the body I have, not I have to change the body to wear the fashion." That's what I admire about the growth of the fashion industry. I also think it's wonderful that there is the opportunity to use different textures and fabrics on different colour skins. I am inspired by that.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Fashion, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Egotism exists everywhere, but it has a different flavor in England, where the tabloid culture goes much deeper. It's just the indulgence of vulgarity, the wallowing in vulgarity. As with everything English, there's a sort of irony to it. They write a great deal about these trivial people who have a certain eminence, always with a bit of, "Isn't it ridiculous that we are writing about this person?"

  Martin Amis

  Writing, People, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

  Beth Ditto

  Ideas, Social, Standards

  "What would Beth Ditto do? I'm 30 and feel under huge pressure to have kids. What should I do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2007.

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• I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

  Lena Dunham

  Mom, Father, Littles

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• I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Average, Rating

  Interview With Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. October 4, 2011.

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• You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

  Paul Feig

  Mean, Want, Happy Endings

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• I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Reading

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• So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.

  Carrie Fisher

  Bipolar, Trying, Responding

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Mean, Ipads, Vices

  "My List: Diane von Furstenberg in 24 Hours" by Jennifer Alfano, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Letting Go, Thinking, Over The Top

  "Beauty and style secrets from our favourite French icons". www.stylist.co.uk.

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• The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.

  Kathy Griffin

  Jobs, Anger, Bitterness

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• I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on 'Britain's Got Talent'.

  Geri Halliwell

  Crush, Tvs, Talent

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• To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

  William Hazlitt

  Race, Virtue, Sanctity

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.486

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• Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

  Patricia Heaton

  Country, Funny Things, Political

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• I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later, and we're working on songs together. Ridiculous.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Cutting, Years

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

  Kin Hubbard

  Peace, Average, Sound

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• I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.

  King Hussein I

  Opportunity, Men, Ideas

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• Some of the stage outfits I've got are ridiculous. I'll lay out clothes to pack, and it'll look like Polly Pocket clothing - because it's all stretchy, it's tiny. I don't need a case when I tour; I can fit it all in my handbag.

  Jessie J

  Clothes, Pockets, Needs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.

  Steve Jobs

  Apples, Church, Loyal

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.20, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?

  Jay-Z

  Art, Wine, Crowds

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