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John Copeland 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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George Pierce Baker 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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Stephen Hunter 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.
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Kenneth Koch 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.
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Tom O'Neill Historically, they've demonstrated a shocking lack of humor for people in such an absurd industry.
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Guy Quaden It is absurd to think that such an interest rate could kill growth.
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Richard Mason 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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Max Beerbohm There is always something rather absurd about the past
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Rick Dinse We are going to revisit those situations and those individuals we have contacted in the past,
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F. Schumacher Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.
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Alex Jones The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.
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Richelle Mead Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.
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Richelle Mead Adrian suddenly made an abrupt turn onto a side street we'd nearly driven past. I jerked upright as he clipped the curb. "What are you doing? Think about your tires!
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Richelle Mead Who else is going?" I asked. He shrugged. "Just you and me." My mood promptly shot up past 'cheerful' and went straight to 'estatic.' Me and Dimitri. Alone. In a car. This might very well be worth a surprise test. "How far is it?" Silently, I begged for it to be a really long drive. Like, one that would take a week. And would involve us staying overnight in luxury hotels. Maybe we'd get stranded in a snowbank, and only body heat would keep us alive. "Five hours" "Oh." A bit less than I'd hoped for. Still, five hours was better than nothing. It didn't rule out the snowbank possibility, either.
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Russell Crowe If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.
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Russell Brand People don't realize that the future is just now, but later.
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Rose Kennedy When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad. . . To me the gift of life is contained in the command, whatever happens: "Don't let it get you. Just keep on going." Thus, I try to think of the good that I have already experienced and what will still be coming.
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Azzam Tamimi I actually have a moderating influence, rather than radicalizing influences,
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Aidan Gillen 'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.
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Brian Penn It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.
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Jason Alexander There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.
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Yvonne Johnson I think we need to do that rather than just talk about it.
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Luigi Speranza We look at this a temporary blip rather than a sign the recovery is fading.
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Ruzwana Bashir In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.
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Kelly Slater I tend to do a lot better here when it's big rather than when its small.
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Lois Capps I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive,