#idic

It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do. ↗

— Donald Trump

#allow #country #currency #doing #i

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#common people #cowards #dread #empty #laugh

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#avoid #before #dancing #day #graces

I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#anything #because #dying #home #i

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#get #lot #me #movies #other

He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously. ↗

— Mary Lou Williams

#decided #down #explained #how #i

It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV. ↗

— Flip Wilson

#blacks #equal #equal opportunity #having #me

My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility! ↗

— Kate Winslet

#british #call #compliment #embarrassed #enormous

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#believed #could #curious #handling #how

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship. ↗

— Trisha Yearwood

#accepted #america #beating #believe #change