Silly Quotes - Page 33

• I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.

  Bernard Manning

  Thinking, Years, People

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• People ask me questions like, "Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you're like when you walk down the street?" It's like, "Of course not." It's such a silly question - it's like being theatrical is a crime.

  Bjork

  People, Looks, Crime

  Interview with Mathias Augustyniak and Michaal Amzalag, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2009.

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• Knowing me is easy. You can still twist your hair and feel silly. Look up the word tacky and have a salad. But when we're together you pull bread apart with your fingers into bites sometimes so small I gotta remind you, Peach, it is okay to be hungry.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Hair, Knowing, Together

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• I don't do commentaries on films because A) I'm not very good at it and B) it's an odd thing that I discovered, on my first film, that you go through this really intense experience of making a film and then you sit in a little room with a monitor and you reduce the thing to a bunch of silly anecdotes. It's really unfulfilling and I've never really enjoyed listening to them anyway, so I just don't do them.

  David Slade

  Listening, Rooms, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• It takes no prisoners. We had to completely change wardrobe for the girls because we had summer wardrobe set and it was so frigidly cold while we were shooting. And the bug population was through the roof, that summer. It was just silly! The fact that we even survived at all is shocking. The fact that we came out of it with a movie that I really like is awe-inspiring.

  Katie Aselton

  Girl, Summer, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

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• To value investors the concept of indexing is at best silly and at worst quite hazardous. Warren Buffett has observed that "in any sort of a contest - financial, mental or physical - it's an enormous advantage to have opponents who have been taught that it's useless to even try." I believe that over time value investors will outperform the market and that choosing to match it is both lazy and shortsighted.

  Seth Klarman

  Believe, Lazy, Trying

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• Most people will see declining returns [due to inflation]. One of the great defenses if you're worried about inflation is not to have a lot of silly needs in your life - you don't need a lot of material goods.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Needs, Defense

  Charlie Munger's remarks at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 1, 2004.

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• It's one of the most beautiful things in the world, to go off and make a film. At the heart of it, making a film - it's pretend. It's a silly thing to do. But it can be important, and to have that experience with people you love is one of the best things you can do.

  Christopher Abbott

  Beautiful, Heart, Love Is

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

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• Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

  Bill Ackman

  Long, Looks, Investing

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• When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight.

  Max Anders

  Neglect, Method, Insight

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• Who is the best the sportswriter who wore shorts? I keep trying to envision Grantland Rice or John Lardner in shorts. It never occurred to me to wear shorts. I'd look too silly to wear shorts.

  Dan Jenkins

  Trying, Looks, Shorts

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• The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself - In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable sdvice.

  John Keats

  Men, Sea, Law

  Letter to James Hessey, October 9, 1818.

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• I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it's silly to talk about him not existing. I don't know anyone who is a responsible historian, who is actually trained in the historical method, or anybody who is a biblical scholar who does this for a living, who gives any credence at all to any of this.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Jesus, Biblical, Thinking

  "The Gospel According to Bart". Interview with David V. Barrett, "Fortean Times", 2007.

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• What is the purpose of the universe?" is a silly question.

  Richard Dawkins

  Purpose, Universe

  "Religion and Atheism". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 9, 2012.

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• The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.

  Adam Gopnik

  Simple, Giving, Grace

  "Under one roof" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 2003.

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• But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter what - in the total absence of supporting evidence. If there were good supporting evidence then faith would be superfluous, for the evidence would compel us to believe it anyway. It is this that makes the often-parroted claim that 'evolution itself is a matter of faith' so silly. People believe in evolution not because they arbitrarily want to believe it but because of overwhelming, publicly available evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, People, Mind

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• The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way.

  Paul Schrader

  Dirty, Emotional, Race

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• The people and the warmakers are two distinct groups. We must never say 'we' when discussing the US government's foreign policy. For one thing, the warmakers do not care about the opinions of the majority of Americans. It is silly and embarrassing for Americans to speak of 'we' when discussing their government's foreign policy, as if their input were necessary to or desired by those who make war.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  War, Two, Government

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• I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.

  Erez Lieberman Aiden

  Philosophy, Math, College

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• Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Asking, Scientist

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• My horses make very silly faces when I'm preparing their meals.

  Martin Clunes

  Horse, Meals, Faces

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• Once we were on the set, we each did different kinds of work. I was doing more the technical stuff, the framing and the camera work, and she was working more with the actors. Marjane [Satrapi] and I don't stop speaking once we're on the set. We continue to talk. We define what our roles are going to be on set, because to have a snake with two heads is silly.

  Vincent Paronnaud

  Snakes, Two, Cameras

  Source: collider.com

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• Each one is different. Each project is different. Some are silly, some are not. Some are more realistic, some are not. Some are overly dramatic, some are not. You've just got to try and find the thing that's most engaging and entertaining in whatever way, shape or form, and it's different every time.

  Colin Hanks

  Trying, Way, Different

  "Colin Hanks and John Stalberg Talk HIGH SCHOOL, Stoner Comedies, Directing and Comparing Filmmaking to Parenthood". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 29, 2012.

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• As an actor you're only supposed to be a lover. I am a romantic hero though I don't like that tag. With all the hardships, problems, illness, goodness, badness, awards and money... an actor will always be a lover. And a lover makes mistakes. You'll be silly, nonsensical and stupid.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Mistake, Stupid, Hero

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• You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.

  Eric Stoltz

  Growing Up, Mean, Night

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