Absurd Quotes
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
Barbara Pym
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it`s in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
M.C. Escher
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There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Cicero
Subject: Philosophy QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world
Voltaire
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To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd
Voltaire
Subject: Atheism QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible
Bertrand Russell
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This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
Bertrand Russell
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[poem] "Love is a memory. Time cannot kill the cherished tune, gay and absurd, and the music unheard."
Barbara Payton
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I do like the idea of putting something comical into an intense drama, and being intense in absurd circumstances within a comedy.
Eric Roberts
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I have no clue what a `hottie` is. To think of myself in those terms is absurd.
Drew Fuller
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A lot of her is me. I`ve had this broad under my belt for five years. I own her - and nobody can tell me that I don`t own her. I love every single dimension and component of her being. Her nobility, her flawed character, her laughter, her love of the absu...
Kate Mulgrew
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I get so protective of David [Lynch], like an older sister or something, which is so absurd. He`s not waiting for us to get the movie because he doesn`t think the cinema is about `getting it`. I think he believes - which I`ve found very rare in filmmakers...
Laura Dern
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I did a grad film but that ended up hurting me more than it helped. My grad film was this over the top, gonzo, completely absurd sci-fi thing with non- professional actors. When you have actors in their fifties who are still doing student films, you`re no...
Richard Kelly
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[on his close friend Jay Leno in 1986] "`Jay`s a master at getting the audience on his side. He`s able to communicate the idea that `Shouldn`t we, as a group, think this is absurd?` You immediately feel like he`s your ally".
David Letterman
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A whole family would be absurd now. But one child would be wonderful.
Linda Evans
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Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don`t you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.
Javier Bardem
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It`s difficult for me to imagine Justin as a real person. He`s so thoroughly a character created for serial television that his behavior, though dramatically justified on Queer as Folk, would register as childish, self-obsessed and absurd if it were displ...
Randy Harrison
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I`m just a girl from a little town in Georgia who had this giant, absurd dream. [On her success.] (People Magazine)
Julia Roberts
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Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there`s humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
David Lynch
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I`d be dead without my sense of humor. I can`t imagine processing the shit we are slogging our way through in life without it. In a twenty-four-hour space, you get an acute sense of how all of this injustice and out-rage is absurd. There are things that a...
Ron Perlman
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You oughtn`t to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Anthony Hope
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You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they`re your weird creations in some kind of way. I don`t even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It`s just absurd...
Joel Coen
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When you go to college, your NBA value seems to go down. You can`t get better when you go to college? That`s absurd, ... The longer you stay in college, the more you grow and become a better player. Each year, I`ve improved, and I want to continue to get...
Ashley Aitken
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Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
Jeff Tweedy
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There`s so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
Frank McCourt
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Alvina Tan
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There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Alvina Tan
Source: brainyquote.com
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
Allison Hanna
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The whole thing was quite absurd,
Anthony J. Principi
