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  • All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.
  • I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.
  • My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I'm sort of ridiculous.
  • Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.
  • 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.
  • I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
  • If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All these hot girls on Baywatch in tiny little red bathing suits running around saving lives.
  • It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
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  • Voltaire In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Ben Shapiro 'Noah' doesn't merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it's bound to do that (although some aspects of the film are out and out ridiculous). It gets the morality of the story wrong, and in the process turns God into Gaia and morality into radical deep green environmentalism.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • William James A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Albert Camus All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bono All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.
    CNN Interview, after the 2006 Grammys (9 February 2006)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Vaclav Havel Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Bo Burnham At the time of 'Words, Words, Words,' I'm a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he's entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that's inherently a little bit ridiculous.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Cardinal de Retz Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Olive Schreiner Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Charles Lamb For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • David Hume Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
    A Treatise of Human Nature
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Caroline Rhea Hello? Three words: Benicio Del Toro, which, incidentally, is Spanish for 'he wants me.' It is just ridiculous how hot he is. I feel the same way about Benicio as I did when I was a kid lusting after David Cassidy.
    Caroline Rhea
    Canadian–American actress (1964 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Marcus Aurelius How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Carlo Collodi How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!
    Adventures of Pinocchio. Ediz. Illustrata (2012 edition), Edimedia
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Bruce Forsyth I do lead a careful diet, I don't overeat, I have fruit and vegetables every day and I drink a lot of water. And my darling wife keeps me so young it is ridiculous. Being with her is an inspiration as well.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Jackie Mason I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
    Jackie Mason
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1928 - 2021)
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  • Edward Franklin Albee III I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
    Edward Franklin Albee III
    American playwright (1928 - 2016)
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  • Amy Goodman I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.
    Amy Goodman
    American broadcast journalist, columnist and author (1957 - )
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