Silly Quotes - Page 5

• Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Men, Animal, History

  Jacques Yves Cousteau, Philippe Diolé (1973). “Octopus and squid, the soft intelligence”, Doubleday Books

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• Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

  Rick Danko

  Mind, Getting Older, Alive

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• All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.

  Evan Davis

  Love, School, Gay

  "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Humorous, Play, Serious

  "Jesse Eisenberg On Set Interview 30 MINUTES OR LESS". Group interview, collider.com. May 10, 2011.

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• There’s something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it’s taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I’ve been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Character, People, Popcorn

  "Some Actors Work Both Sides of a Script". Interview with Jason Zinoman, www.nytimes.com. September 23, 2011.

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• I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.

  Emilio Estevez

  Art, Kids, Years

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• I like being absurd. Being silly.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Being Silly, Absurd

  "Men of the Year 2011: Showmen: Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon". Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. November 14, 2011.

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  'Have fun' is my message. Be silly. You're allowed to be silly. There's nothing wrong with it.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Fun, Messages, Having Fun

  "Jimmy Fallon: The New King of Late Night TV" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. March 20, 2013.

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• AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

  Jerry Falwell

  Stupid, Punishment, Scary

  "Grand Theft Jesus". Book by Robert S. McElvaine, 2008.

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• It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.

  Will Ferrell

  Play, Easy, Harder

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• Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Meals, Kind, Embarrassing

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• Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

  Lukas Foss

  Boys, Play, Together

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• I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Movie, Summer, Daughter

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

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• I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

  Greta Garbo

  Stupid, Men, Want

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

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• I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

  Brian Greene

  One Day, Would Be, Baptists

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• You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Stupid, Experts, Verses

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• Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Stupid, Men, Mad

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1858). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.42

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• I don't want to sound too silly or pretentious about this, but, you know, I love being in Paris. I love working at Louis Vuitton. I love fashion. That's why I do it. No one's forcing me to do this. And nobody forces anyone to buy it. It's a real love affair.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Real, Paris

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• It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Stupid, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.56, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!

  Anna Kendrick

  Football, Teenager, Twilight

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• From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with.

  Alicia Keys

  People, Worry, Deals

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• I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

  Frank Lampard

  Careers, Challenges, Age

  "Frank Lampard fears for World Cup place as England prepare for Chile" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2013.

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• You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.

  Queen Latifah

  Smart, Sometimes, Silly Things

  "Queen Latifah Addresses Serious Issues with Life Support". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. February 26, 2007.

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• What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Stupid

  William Law (1739). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. By William Law, A.M.”, p.120

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• I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

  John Legend

  Kings, School, Kids

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2006.

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