They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
If you don’t tell the whole truth about yourself, life is a ridiculous exercise.
I’m a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
I think diets are ridiculous because eventually you have to stop, and then what? You put all the weight back on.
It’s ridiculous that people would judge my songs based on what I wore, but that’s how it is… superficial. I don’t really care, though – I am confident in the quality of my own work.
The China Rich seem to be spending on a scale that’s just beyond anything we’ve ever seen before. They are building and buying an insane amount of luxury residences around the world, commissioning huge flying palaces from Boeing, and paying ridiculous amounts for art.
I started Pilates. I’m the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: ‘How can we make John look ridiculous?’ Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I’m in the stirrups or something.
You’ve seen the IPL and the Pakistani crowds, they’re almost ridiculous. They’re very loud, they love the game, the passion for the game out there is immense.
When I had jobs, I was always doing manual jobs because I couldn’t think. I worked at the docks, unloading trucks, and did ridiculous jobs.
The awards world can be ridiculous, but I’m not one to bash it. I love awards! When I’ve been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn’t have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class.
You can’t lie to God – it’s ridiculous.
I think the criticism Coach Greg Jackson gets is ridiculous and it makes me angry.
‘I’ll Tumble 4 Ya’ has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.
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.
Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there’s this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you’re old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren’t the roles.
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
I heard there was a debate about fighting teammates, and if a fight should happen because the fans or promoter wants it, I will fight a teammate, but family is ridiculous.
I like Hindi movies. Although my wife thinks the hero and heroine breaking into a song and dance every five minutes is ridiculous, but I find them entertaining.
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.
Listening sounds like a ridiculous characteristic for mentoring, but genuinely being invested and interested in people, meeting them for cups of coffee and spending time with people, and using the network I’ve been very lucky to build up to help others are all things I do to help others.
I look ridiculous in a three-piece suit – I’m too fat.
Every team did it. They’ll say, ‘You white boy, you ain’t gonna run on us today. This is ridiculous. Why are you giving offensive linemen the ball?’ All kinds of stuff like that you hear on the field, but I use that to my advantage. I kind of soaked it in, ate it up a little bit, because I enjoyed it.
Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn’t tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn’t do.
Politics move, as fast as Twitter, and for everyone to think that in four years America was going to be perfect is ridiculous.
My sister has kids, including two in baby seats, and she drives a minivan. I had to climb over the car seats to get into the back seat, and it seemed ridiculous to have to do gymnastics to get in and out of the car.
You know how you toilet paper and egg somebody’s house? I did it, right? But I did it back-to-back nights, Saturday and Sunday. They called the police. Good thing nobody got arrested but that was something embarrassing and stupid. Why would you do the same house twice? It was ridiculous.
I felt like I had to be, you know, perfect, which is ridiculous. Nobody’s perfect.
For being the largest generation in American history, the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization.
I don’t know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.
When I first played ‘1234’ it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it’s ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.
It’s embarrassing to tell you how much my friends make fun of me. Seriously, when you have a doll made of your face, it’s ridiculous how creative your friends can get… pictures, videos, little animated cartoons that they’ve made.
We would go to photo sessions and it was just the most ridiculous stuff. It was like, ‘Here, lick on these lollipops.’ And we’re like, ‘What?!’ It was horrifying. But we would laugh.
Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
I do lead a careful diet, I don’t overeat, I have fruit and vegetables every day and I drink a lot of water. And my darling wife keeps me so young it is ridiculous. Being with her is an inspiration as well.
I like to find those shirts that they only made one of. That’s my approach to style. But my vintage T-shirt collection is a little ridiculous.
I used to see an ridiculous quantity of films; I think I saw every possible movie.
It’s pretty ridiculous how nice people are in Milwaukee. It’s like you’re a member of everyone’s family or something.
I’m not a huge spender. Sometimes when you pay a lot, you’re paying for the company’s advertising. It feels ridiculous to pay for a name.
Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don’t mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.
I like Roy Orbison’s video for ‘I Drove All Night’ because it’s so literal. It is just a man driving throughout the night. I like that silliness. To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It’s almost impossible to do it without any humour.
My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.
Leapfrog innovation – consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation – only happens within a dictatorship. Any time you try to do something really innovative, most people aren’t going to understand it until after they experience it. So when you’re developing in innovation, you have to be a dictator.
That’s one of the problems with the Zeppelin stuff. It sounds ridiculous on MP3. You can’t hear what’s there properly.
There are always ridiculous things on television or on the Internet that make people go, ‘Did you see that?’ That could be anything from a clip from the ‘Real Housewives’ to someone jumping off their roof and missing the pool to a zillion other things.
One second I’ll be listening to country, and then the next I’ll be listening to rock and then R&B. It’s ridiculous. I’m all over the place with my music.
Anyone who’s watched ‘The Hunger Games’, or female archers, knows that that is an absolutely physiologically ridiculous idea.
With the first ‘Hatchet,’ I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can’t take it seriously.
I think people assume that because I talk the way that I talk that I grew up with money, and then I’ve had to say, ‘No, I grew up poor.’ And then I was like, ‘Why do I have to play this game where the only black experience that’s authentic is the one where you grew up in poverty?’ I mean, it’s ridiculous.
I feel like every time I do a video I say I want to make it like a movie, I want to make it very entertaining. So I start to just scan in my brain for what I haven’t done before so I can do something unique and ridiculous, and what that song means.
The idea that my mother would go around swearing after a personal setback is ridiculous.
At the time of ‘Words, Words, Words,’ I’m a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he’s entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that’s inherently a little bit ridiculous.
