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I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
T. E. Lawrence
Truth
Myself
People
Will
Few
Whatever
Say
Tell
About
Point
Results
Absurdly
Am
Been
Few People
Quite
Artistic
Ordinary
Who
Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
Lord Byron
You
Will
Depend
Down
Too
High
Shakespeare
Absurdly
Name
Go
May
Stands
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?
Montesquieu
World
Pretend
More
Unreasonable
Various
Could
Absurdly
Talk
Blind
Effects
Very
Intelligent
Than
Behold
Anything
Produced
Productive
Who
Beings
Assert
Fatality
God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover.
John Piper
God
Time
Poison
Living
Universe
Thomas
Drank
Alive
William
Magazine
Plymouth
Colony
Absolutely
He
Put
Absurdly
Dead
Him
Governed
Cover
His
Existence
Front
Proclaimed
Exploded
Socrates
The camera must point at the exact spot the audience wishes to look at any given moment. To find that spot is absurdly easy: you only have to remember where you were looking at the time the scene was made.
Preston Sturges
Time
You
Remember
Made
Looking
Must
Exact
Easy
Find
Given
Only
Scene
Point
Absurdly
Wishes
Look
Spot
Audience
Were
Camera
Any
Any Given Moment
Where
Moment
I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously.
Claire Danes
Myself
You
Seriously
Before
Took
Kid
Kind
More
Never
Absurdly
Like
Know
Well
Felt
Always
Got
Amateur
Agent
Working
Productions
Even
Actor
Started
There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Work
Police
Crime
Gun
Thanks
Virginia
Lobby
Way
Telling
Detective
Guns
Only
Computers
Absurdly
How
West
West Virginia
Antiquated
America
Gets
Owner
Where
Place
Turn
Agency
Used
Help
Illegal
Connect
Many
Cops
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
Julio Cortazar
Living
Out
Possible
Only
Absurdity
Absurdly
Infinite
Break
Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.
Julia Sweeney
Life
Funny
Death
Funny Things
Horrible
Horrible Things
Absurdly
Most
Course
Because
Going
Where
Happen
Illness
Things
I don't like gross monetary inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts.
Michael Dirda
Work
People
Rich
Believe
Ensuring
Status
Wrong
Firmly
Absurdly
Like
Bloated
Privileges
Accounts
Bank
Rewarded
Being
Gross
Professions
Monetary
Hardest
Symbols
Preserve
Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.
Robert Lanza
Today
Science
Physics
Become
Beneath
Everything
Earth
Flying
Relentlessly
All Things
Physical
Kingdom
Above
Indifferent
Purpose
Takes
Wrong
Absurdly
Like
Island
Question
Modern
Turn
Theories
Preoccupation
Swift
Things
Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
Andy Hobsbawm
Great
Creativity
Rationally
Absurdly
Powerful