Silly Quotes - Page 32

• It's a little bit silly to pit us all against each other as if we were running a race. Just think about the fact that Richard Burton never won an Oscar.

  Julianna Margulies

  Running, Thinking, Race

  Source: deadline.com

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• I had no real direction at all in my 20's and so I did what a lot of people without direction do: I took an acting class. In one of those first days of the class, I did this weird, silly improv, and it got laughs. It was such a blissful moment. I've never gotten over that love of hearing laughter. As a people pleaser, it's the drug of choice for me.

  Ty Burrell

  Laughter, Real, Class

  Source: deadline.com

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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

  Men, Law, Perfection

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• I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get published, turning out pure crap under a name that has become a bad habit. The next poem is all that counts. You can't stand on past poems.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Men, Past

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• I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse and he's one of my heroes so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable and they've got brains the size of golf balls.

  Sebastian Coe

  Horse, Hero, Golf

  "Lord Coe". Interview with Barney Ronay, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact. Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money. I'm concerned about values - moral, ethical, human values - my own, other people's, the country's, the world's values. Having money now gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter.

  Johnny Carson

  Country, Worry, People

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

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• The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust... Probably the first slave ship, with Negroes lying in chains on its decks, seemed commonsensical to the owners who operated it and to the planters who patronized it. But such a vessel would not be in the realm of common sense today. The only sense that is common, in the long run, is the sense of change.

  E. B. White

  Running, Lying, Play

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• There's moments when I think it's kind of silly and I wish I would've just stayed natural

  Carmen Electra

  Thinking, Wish, Kind

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• The real you, the inner you, is pure, very pure. It's loving and it's magnanimous. It understands.  It has patience.  It is tolerant-it will wait forever while your ego trots all over everywhere trying to figure life out.  It is pleasing to remember that back home there is a friend who's waiting for you to stop being silly, who's waiting to welcome you with open arms if and when you show up.

  Stuart Wilde

  Real, Home, Ifs And

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• I'm not silly enough to think I'm going to change the whole culture ... but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level.

  David Beckham

  Soccer, Thinking, Different

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• But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about the Internet as applying just to pornography. Whatever the initial use of the technology, it has nothing to do with the potential of the architecture to serve many other extremely important functions.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Technology, Thinking, Important

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• When I see that little white ball go up, I want to catch it, no matter what. If I have to knock myself silly doing it, so be it.

  Torii Hunter

  White, What If, Balls

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• It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blessing, Mates, Manage

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• I need to be more under control. I need to calm down a little bit so I can cut down on the little silly errors I get.

  Delmon Young

  Cutting, Errors, Needs

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• It's great when you can write a meaningful song that touches people, but sometimes you just wanna have fun and sing a silly song that doesn't reflect on you as a person.

  Carrie Underwood

  Meaningful, Song, Fun

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• I think the acts today get too much money. I really do. They wind up blowing it all anyway. It's silly to give children that much money.

  Wolfman Jack

  Children, Thinking, Wind

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• Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn't forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.

  Grace Jones

  Character, Play, Differences

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• One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

  Jane Austen

  Likes, Trifling, Fairs

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• I hate the word "method acting." It's just so silly. You hear people going, "Yeah I'm a method actor." I'm like, "So what happens if you're playing a period film or something? You're in the Second World War. And what happens when your mom calls you on your phone? Do you go, 'Oh! What is this strange talking brick device?'" No. It's stupid. But you do everything you can to get in that mindset.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Mom, Hate, War

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• So remember, my meaning of discipline is not that of any Ten Commandments...Your discipline has to come from your very heart, it has to be your own-and there is a great difference. When somebody else gives you the discipline, it can never fit you; it will be like wearing somebody else's clothes. Either they will be too loose or too tight, and you will always feel a little bit silly in them.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Differences, Clothes

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• God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Drunk, Doe, May

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• Your first thought is often the best one. You know, the one that felt too weird or silly or stupid. Trust your imagination - it knows what it's doing.

  Karin Tidbeck

  Stupid, Imagination, Firsts

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• The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Men, Animal

  Mark Twain (1925). “In defense of Harriet Shelley”

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• Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do.

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is, Lovers, Blind

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• Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and then jump up to do that next thing we see.

  Janet Macunovich

  Doe, Benches, Next

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