"To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle."
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"So many times we're portrayed in ways that we don't want to be portrayed, in ways that make us seem so ridiculous."
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"It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs."
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"Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous."
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"Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once."
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"As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any idea of what they're about."
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""A good director is one that lets you improv," that's ridiculous. There's some actors who should not be improving and there are some scripts that should not be touched. I think it's just a case by case basis."
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"It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where we can predict 70 years away when a comet is coming."
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"I'm just a swell guy. No, that's a ridiculous notion - if you're being an asshole to people, you're being an asshole, that's all there is to it. It can't be rationalized because you wrote something worthwhile. First obligation is to other people."
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"I am everything and I am nothing. I am just kidding; I am not everything and nothing. That would be ridiculous. I am just everything."
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"Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun."
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"I've lived in the UK for longer than I lived in Ireland. I'm not worried about myself, but it's ridiculous for youngsters."
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"The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?"
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"I'd walk and think about my entire life. I'd find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous."
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"I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used to describe a group that was ready to make war on the status quo, which is not a conservative position."
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"One cricket said to another - come, let us be ridiculous, and say love! love love love love love let us be absurd, woman, and say hate! hate hate hate hate hate and then let us be angelic and say nothing."
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"If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason."
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"The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment."
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"All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!"
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"Life is ridiculous. It's not our fault."
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