Quotes about absurd
absurd nfl people
Look at all the people we had on IR. That's an absurd amount. That's got to be some kind of NFL record.
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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 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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I think it was absurd and the court thankfully reversed itself. Ron Allen
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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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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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Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold. Michael Hastings
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I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue. Adam McKay
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Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.
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Fans are put in the unnecessary position of going to the black market because of the absurd way that FIFA runs the whole thing. FIFA just wanted to start getting its revenues months before the tournament.
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But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange. Samuel Pepys
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it Christopher Morley
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There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Why is it that criminal policies and absurd blockades that include food and medicines are being added ... with the purpose of annihilating whole populations out of hunger and diseases? Fidel Castro
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To be in the quarterfinals is pretty unexpected for most people. But I didn't feel like it was that absurd to think that I could be here, and hopefully even further. James Blake
absurd hopefully unexpected
To be in the quarterfinals is pretty unexpected for most people, ... But I didn't feel like it was that absurd to think that I could be here, and hopefully even further.
absurd early four morning
I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes. Joss Whedon
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Today, Mr. Bennett told us his comments were meant as hypothetical. He says that he was really trying to demonstrate the limitation of one argument by showing the absurdity of another. Bob Woodruff
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative Oliver Goldsmith
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Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ''ideals',' of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax. Lionel Trilling
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one. Voltaire
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Cruelty is in theory a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd Bertrand Russell
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Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it. Simon McBurney
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When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now. Craig Venter
absurd love politics spectator sports
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports! Miguel Syjuco
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We've been telling people for months now to stay away from the primary and save yourself for Kinky. We realize it's absurd to tell people in Texas not to vote, but the two-party system has left us with no choice.
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What is utterly absurd happens in the world Nikolai Gogol