Quotes about absurd
absurd american-journalist helpful people personal proof survival
People of sense will not take its absurd triviality as anything but helpful in contributing to the proof of the survival of personal identity.
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Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it. Tommy Caldwell
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Some people called postal privatization an absurd idea. But the people judged that it is the right idea, Junichiro Koizumi
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I think these things are so political you can't trust them at all. It's madness that I am on the list. It's absurd and completely unjustifiable. Their problem was they had to put an Australian on it. These lists are always so right-wing. It's like the Nobel prize, it is always 'people we can do business with'. Germaine Greer
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It is a sad testament of the absurdity of the ratings code and the completely illogical moral criteria that provide the underpinning for it, where any form of violence is perfectly acceptable for kids but sexuality continues to be the ultimate taboo, Robert Lantos
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I think there should be a law of Nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way!
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The absurdity of its illegality has been clear to me for some time. I learned about pot from my kids and realized it was a lot better than Scotch, and I loved the Scotch. Then I went to my doctor, and he said, 'I'm thrilled. You're drinking too much. You're much better off doing pot than drinking.' George Soros
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The absurdity of a religious practice may be clearly demonstrated without lessening the numbers of people who indulge in it Anatole France
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The allegations are completely untrue, and dredging up a photo from when I was 22 years old is pretty desperate stuff. This is merely part of an absurd smear campaign to divert attention from the issues that matter in this leadership contest. George Osborne
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The actor's comments could conceivably end up getting someone killed. Mr. Cruise's advice was not only dangerous, but also absurd and wrong. It is our hope and prayer that anyone who has been talked out of acquiring life-saving health care by Mr. Cruise reevaluate Mr. Cruise's ill-informed advice and go back to treatment. Life and health are too precious to risk by taking the medical advice of a uneducated movie actor.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often become the height of wisdom in another Adlai E. Stevenson
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I think it was absurd and the court thankfully reversed itself. Ron Allen
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I think that seals it for him. They can't really argue that he's doing a great job. It would be pretty absurd if they try to do that.
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Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood. Sathya Baba
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I thought it was absurd to take all this music. But it's a really honest film. Kevin Drew
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In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
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Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhere in the middle of one of Hollywood's most absurd and least lamented dead genres, the disaster pic of the '70s. It's a little better than 'Earthquake' but not as good as 'The Towering Inferno,' because it doesn't star Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. Stephen Hunter
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. T. J. Miller
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I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.
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I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body. Simon Schama
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I think it's absurd that they think the authors should have to come to them to opt out of the database,
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I think it's absurd that insurance companies would avoid paying these claims, Charlie Melancon
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I think it just looks absurd for us constantly to shovel out tax breaks when executives go on television and say they aren't needed, ... They don't need tax incentives. Ron Wyden
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It always strikes me as somewhat absurd that strikes are referred to as "industrial action", for they are nothing of the sort, almost as daft as the sexual act being described as "sleeping together
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It always strikes me as somewhat absurd that strikes are referred to as ""industrial action"", for they are nothing of the sort, almost as daft as the sexual act being described as ""sleeping together
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I think it's going to be a difficult year. We're undergoing a change. I think the markets will broaden and some tech stocks will suffer. In my opinion, they've reached a point of absurd valuation. These stocks are going to give up the ghost with money going into other stocks.
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BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head.
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Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation. Eric Liu
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It is absurd to think that such an interest rate could kill growth.
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It is so absurd what this alleged victim is saying. He's saying that he fought two guys with a stun gun and a knife, and he jumps out of the car.
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Here I was in my 20s, and life seemed to me so exciting and full of girls and gardens and steamships and drinks and tennis games and countries and cathedrals... I mean, it seemed absurd to be writing these drab, depressed little poems. I knew there were things like death and poverty and injustice, but they weren't everything. Kenneth Koch
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He's a great guy, absurdly talented, and he seemed ready to sing. It's these parts he can come up with, these ways of double tracking, these really unusual harmonies - I could listen to Antony all day. Lou Reed
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Historically, they've demonstrated a shocking lack of humor for people in such an absurd industry.