"The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous."
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"The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it."
"To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous."
"The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie."
"I looked at Justin, and I was like: “Do you want me to go onstage for you?""
"It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is."
"She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous."
"people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous."
"On to the Next Dream is so outlandish. I call it absurdist fiction, because the story is utter hyperbole. The story builds to such an exaggerated and ridiculous pitch that there's no way it can be true - and yet, because it's based on the current cultural climate, it feels as if it is."
"I've managed to make a living in a very ridiculous business, and that's fine with me. The trick now is, after you've been in it for a while, you still have to remember to have fun."
"Like, I want the world to be better! All I want is positive! All I want is dopeness! Why would you want to control that?"
"Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby."
"Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest."
"That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid."
"The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect."
"A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have."
"People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous."
"The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine."
"For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington."
"What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world."