Ridiculous Quotes - Page 30

• Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Past

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• Leapfrog innovation - consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation - only happens within a dictatorship. Any time you try to do something really innovative, most people aren't going to understand it until after they experience it. So when you're developing in innovation, you have to be a dictator.

  Ashton Kutcher

  People, Innovation, Trying

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• My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Feet, Car, Mind

  "Shia LaBeouf and Dane DeHaan Talk LAWLESS, Sampling Moonshine, and Bringing These Characters to Life". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 27, 2012.

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• You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Pension Plans, Risk, Acting

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• It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Humor, Men, Creating

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3839, Delphi Classics

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• Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.

  Sophia Loren

  Sex, Love Is, Faces

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• Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.

  Christian Louboutin

  Men, High Heels, Giants

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• We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Morality, Fit, British

  "On Moore's Life of Lord Byron" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1830.

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• People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.

  Lynn Margulis

  People

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  Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Family Practice" by Leigh Roche, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2015.

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• When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.

  Josh McDowell

  Directors, Remember, Columbia

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• Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous.

  Moby

  Looks, Supermodel, Courses

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• People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

  Moliere

  Mean, People, Mind

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• You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it's nice, I can't imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know.

  Conor Oberst

  Nice, Ideas, Forever

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• Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.

  Yoko Ono

  Race, Feelings, Body

  "Age becomes her" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2005.

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• I'm not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it's incredibly delicious.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Dumb, Healthy

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• Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Beauty, Years

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• During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Dumb, Breakfast

  Gwyneth Paltrow (2011). “My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people, but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, America, People

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

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• If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

  Robert Pattinson

  Running, War, People

  "Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart's Wild Rid". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 4, 2009.

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• After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek,' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.

  Busy Philipps

  Insecure, Two, Feet

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

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• Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Careers, Might, Intention

  "Joaquin Phoenix Stuns 'Letterman' Audience With Amy Winehouse-Like Appearance", www.foxnews.com. February 12, 2009.

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• 'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

  Terry Pratchett

  Interesting, Serious, Discworld

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• I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.

  Christina Ricci

  Country, Jeans, Attention

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• All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Dream, Passion

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