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It is hard to see taxing plastic bags as one of the great issues of our time that merits the foremost place in our finest statesmen's minds. It is an absurd little issue, a picayune proportion of household waste, and a pointless inconvenience in people's lives.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Time
Great
People
Our
Minds
Statesmen
Our Time
See
Finest
Proportion
Pointless
Absurd
Bags
Merits
Household
Issue
Issues
Foremost
Place
Little
Taxing
Hard
Plastic
Waste
Lives
Inconvenience
Most scams are absurd - so absurd that one wonders how anyone falls for them at all; yet if no one falls for them, how do the scammers make money?
James Veitch
Money
Scams
No-One
Absurd
Most
Make
How
Falls
Wonders
Anyone
Them
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
Morning
You
Jokes
Late
Late-Night
Favorite
Some
Writer
Had
Absurd
Most
Make
Deadline
Make Up
Because
Always
Up
Your
Four
Early
Night
Early Morning
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Journey
Age
Old
Advice
Old Age
Increase
Approach
Our
More
Foolish
Road
Absurd
End
Provisions
Than
Nearer
I've seen so many women in my family, so many mothers, that have lost children in the war in such absurd ways. I wonder how they do it. How do they keep living? How do they keep smiling?
Nadine Labaki
War
Family
Women
Seen
Lost
Keep Smiling
Living
Ways
Absurd
Smiling
How
Mothers
Wonder
Children
Many
Keep
Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.
Oswald Mosley
Financial
Conspiracy
Men
Three
Power
Controlling
Difficult
Analysis
Worldwide
Secret
Married
Clear
Absurd
Idea
Particularly
Knows
How
Real
Anyone
Mankind
Who
Keep
Among
That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
Pat Buchanan
Judge
Matter
President
States
Security
Border
Would
Border Security
District
Absurd
Wartime
United
United States
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love
Woman
Love Is
Free
Believe
Inquiry
Promise
Cases
Both
Absurd
Vow
Than
Same
To Love
Us
Less
Ever
Creed
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
Death
Truth
Bible
Dignity
Confession
Guilt
Face
Interpretation
Everyone
Hopelessness
About
Something
Sees
Baffling
Absurd
Reveals
Person
Endgame
Different
Apocalypse
Meaningless
Painful
Each
Play
Portrait
Watching
Night
Babble
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
God
Faith
Impossible
Believe
Absurd
Him
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
Life
Myself
Me
People
Political
Corporations
Insane
Find
Give
Take
Instance
Absurd
Over
Like
Making
Issue
Dollars
Huge
Just
Tax
Tax Breaks
While
Breaks
Grind
Elections
Working
Working People
Ax
Millions
Millions Of Dollars
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.
Alice Foote MacDougall
Success
Almost
Absurd
Come
She
Because
Least
Erratic
Depart
Expects
May
After
Again
Whim
Success Is
Her
Thing
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France
Fashion
Nature
Human Nature
Think
Absurd
Wisely
Human
Act
I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.
Andrew Bird
You
Worth
Down
Believe
Kind
Write
Remembering
Absurd
Still
Line
I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd.
Ang Lee
Life
Dark
Think
Spirit
Absurd
Without
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Anthony Hope
You
Somebody
Must
Temptation
Absurd
Well
Becomes
Yield
Thing
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
Archibald MacLeish
Life
Man
World
Better
Whatever
Worse
More
Absurd
Ideas
Opposite
His
Than
May
Lived
There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.
Arlen Specter
Money
Political
First
Own
Nothing
Think
Spend
Spending
Spending Money
Say
About
Individual
He
He Or She
Absurd
First Amendment
Remotely
She
Talks
Without
Limitation
Contests
His
Amendment
Any
Just
Wants
Much
Even
Her
The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.
Arne Glimcher
Change
Sometimes
AI
Painting
Society
Carefully
Furniture
Ancient
Rapid
Pot
Absurd
Conceptual
Arrangements
Artist
Chinese
Produced
Useless
Coca-Cola
Illustrate
My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
Arthur Compton
Attitude
First
Feeling
Paper
About
Absurd
While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11.
Benjamin Wittes
Death
Justice
Legal
Culture
People
Matter
Oppose
Crimes
Relatively
Penalty
System
About
Seems
Absurd
Execute
Executing
Policy
Operational
Death Penalty
Get
Quite
Which
While
Sept
Reserve
Street
Routine
Right
I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.
Bennett Miller
Me
Ambition
Would
Would-Be
Easy
Find
Absurd
Feel
Like
Want
After
I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I spent a lot of time after that at 'Gossip Girl' auditions, thinking, 'Wow, I really wasted my money.'
Betty Gilpin
Time
Money
Gossip
College
Girl
Thinking
Spent
Wow
Absurd
Studying
Beckett
Gossip Girl
Auditions
Lot
After
Theater
Then
Really
Wasted
I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.
Bruce Cockburn
Remember
Living
Seemed
Remember When
Absurd
Idea
Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.
Burt Rutan
Travel
Technology
Dangerous
Space
Fly
First
Year
Those
Though
More
Only
Absurd
Were
Years
Rockets
Up
Than
Ended
Expensive
Being
Space Shuttle
After
Space Travel
Fifty
Large
Even
Now
Portions
Shuttle
There obviously are a hell of a lot of people that love Lady Gaga. But to me, she's been the theatre of the absurd. And the more absurd it is, the bigger she got.
Butch Trucks
Love
Me
Theatre
People
Hell
More
Absurd
Obviously
She
Got
Been
Lot
Lady
Lady Gaga
Bigger
Gaga
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