Top 100 Redundant Quotes
#1. If you give money to poor guy he knows how to spend them, so if you have money which are redundant give them too a poor person. He will probably buy something for eat or he will get out of his misery.
Deyth Banger
#2. It's nearly redundant to enumerate the reasons The Beatles are important. There are probably different reasons why The Beatles are important to a musician like myself and to the millions of Beatles fans who just enjoy listening to the music.
Todd Rundgren
#3. The only exercise guru then was Richard Simmons - a flamboyant fuzzy-haired creature who vaguely resembled a gay Bozo the Clown, unless that's redundant, which I, thank God, have no way of knowing, having no, thank God, direct
Carrie Fisher
#4. The longer I live, the more boring youth becomes. So redundant. Each generation rediscovers the wheel of rebellion, the wheel of love, and so forth and so on. We hardly know which end is up until we're in our thirties.
Barbara Neely
#5. I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google!
Matt Mullenweg
#6. Nobody planned the global capitalist system, nobody runs it, and nobody really comprehends it. This particularly offends intellectuals, for capitalism renders them redundant. It gets on perfectly well without them.
Peter Saunders
#7. The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up - flaked up, with rose-water snow.
Herman Melville
#8. I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
Billy Connolly
#9. Right now, me getting killed would be redundant.
...
You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.
...
Right now, getting killed would be a breath of spring.
Chuck Palahniuk
#10. If you believe in equal rights, then what do "women's rights," "gay rights," etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.
Thomas Sowell
#11. When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.
Daniel Handler
#12. I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se.
Philippe Falardeau
#13. I think there was a brief period where Norwegian bands were evolving and that was an interesting time where it seemed like a band like Darkthrone was stuck in the midst of a lot of change and seemed a bit redundant.
Mat McNerney
#14. I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.
Donna Mills
#15. With a thriller, you're going to have your red herrings, as different suspects are thrown up as possible culprits. You can only explore that for so long - if you do that more than a few times, it starts to get a little redundant.
Martin Henderson
#16. Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation ... Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching eyes that his job becomes one of concealing how redundant his spoken lines are - a tricky job he largely is able to bring off commendably.
Jay Carr
#17. Free scientific inquiry? The first adjective is redundant.
Ayn Rand
#18. So this made-up religion
"
"I didn't say made-up. I said brand new. 'Made-up religion' is redundant.
Daryl Gregory
#19. As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
Nate Powell
#20. There is a need for promoting women's sexual agency in today's society, because if it wasn't an issue, terms such as 'female sexual empowerment' would be made redundant. The fact that we merely have this vocabulary is indicative of that.
Miya Yamanouchi
#21. I know this is a bit redundant, but it is really hard to explain just how loud Tiger Stadium is when you're standing on the field. The crowd is moving and swaying so much, and in so many directions, it makes the stands look blurry, like a pointillist painting.
Wright Thompson
#22. Redundant comments are just places to collect lies and misinformation.
Robert C. Martin
#23. Unconditional love is a redundant expression; if it's not unconditional, then it's not love.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#24. The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down
vast monument of strength.
John Milton
#25. No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.
Bill Gates
#26. God in His infinite wisdom blessed humans with redundant tongues: one to outfit the mouth for speech. And a mother tongue to give it meaning ... Though it wags out such inconceivable beauty, attached to the mother tongue lies one much maligned woman.
David B. Lentz
#27. And learning any fact, he was annoyed not to have known it already, because whenever anything happened, the conversation around it had already trended and backlashed and been reexamined and swalloed and shat and reswallowed and reshat in a thousand places onlines, until all thinking felt redundant
Tony Tulathimutte
#28. Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.
Gustave De Molinari
#30. If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
Larry Wall
#32. It's a privilege to have the career I have, to love every day and be following my passion, the stories that interest me, to remote locations and people. So nothing stops me from that - but yes, it seems redundant in documentary-filmmaker circles today to say the biggest struggle was financing.
Pietra Brettkelly
#33. Did you call me a pig? (Stryder)
I called you a pigheaded boar. (Zenobia)
Isn't that redundant? (Stryder)
Kinley MacGregor
#34. I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.
Angel Haze
#35. Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor.
Toni Braxton
#36. You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
Billy Tauzin
#37. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.
George Will
#38. If I have a piece that's solely based on the web and it's going to also exist in a gallery, it needs to exist in a gallery where it doesn't feel redundant.
Kalup Linzy
#39. An elegant woman, with a refinement that makes mere prettiness seem redundant.
Hilary Mantel
#40. Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like, 'Here I am holding a red ball.'
Teller
#41. There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the stage, it would be impossible to listen to. It would be redundant ... The good dialogue writer is the one who can give you the impression of real speech.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
#42. In San Francisco, Haloween is redundant.
Will Durst
#43. Unlike Marvel, we are not setting up redundant organizations for expertise that exists. We will track all DC properties to measure financial success.
Diane Nelson
#44. Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)
Michael Pollan
#45. Don't repeat yourself. It's not only repetitive, it's redundant, and people have heard it before.
Lemony Snicket
#46. My little Matthew, Isabelle at once snapped back at him, when two people agree, it means one of them is redundant
Gilbert Adair
#47. During the transition from a corporate-driven economy to a human-driven one, there are some words we should leave behind as redundant relics. Two words that need to be at the top of the pile are 'target' and
Steve Sammartino
#48. I don't need to be redundant to the gay community about what's wrong and what isn't happening for them.
Sandra Bernhard
#49. Mutations pop up all over the place, but our redundant chromosomes help blunt this effect. By avoiding inbreeding, a population reduces the odds that rare and harmful mutations will pop up at the same place on both sides of the chromosome.
Randall Munroe
#50. Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.
Blake Mycoskie
#51. If we're 15 minutes into a lifeless, redundant, status-based 1:1 and I don't have anything sitting in my back pocket, I'm going to turn it into a performance review.
Rands
#52. I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.
Brie Larson
#55. I need to keep it spontaneous as an artist, so for me to repeat a face would be redundant and boring.
Chris Mars
#56. So far I have felt like a very inept slapstick performer." "Inept slapstick? Isn't that a bit redundant?
Neal Stephenson
#57. Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or operated.
Seth Shostak
#58. In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.
Robin Williams
#59. It [I'm leaving] wasn't really necessary to say, especially if you were already walking away. Almost redundant. And yet, there was a comfort in being no question, no room for doubt.
Sarah Dessen
#60. My worship is of a very strange kind.
In this, Ganga water is not required.
No special utensils are necessary.
Even flowers are redundant.
In this puja all gods have disappeared.
And emptiness has emerged with euphoria.
Lahiri Mahasaya
#61. In San Francisco, Halloween is redundant.
Will Durst
#62. I suppose you'd have ten wives if you could."
"I'd be sufficiently miserable with one. The other nine would be redundant.
Lisa Kleypas
#63. If I masturbate while Googling myself, which part is more redundant?
Dana Gould
#64. The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.
Anurag Kashyap
#65. It's just because you haven't practiced enough, Noah said generously, but he was gripping the door handle in a way that seemed redundant for the already dead.
Maggie Stiefvater
#66. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems.
Joe Barton
#67. Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions ... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy.
Rick Perry
#68. DMS is energetic and enterprising to a degree that from time to time leaves certain persons (e.g. those burdened with a petty fear of death or torture) uneasy (see my prior speculation as to possibility DMS may have been born with a redundant Y chromosome).
Neal Stephenson
#69. The best thing that can happen to anybody is to be sacked or made redundant because often that's when you think, "I don't want to become one of the living dead. I haven't got anything to lose, now I can start to follow my own dreams."
Tom Hodgkinson
#70. If two people always agree, one of them is redundant.
Ben Bernanke
#71. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.
Mark Kozelek
#72. I'm nothing if not redundant! I also repeat myself.
Richard Fish
#73. Past age fifty-five, I experienced the advancement of exquisite fabric choices, paint distinctions that were celestial in scope, yet so many other man-made objects, such as people, became drab, redundant and boring.
Carol A. Elliott
#74. Our human need for beauty is not simply a redundant addition to the list of human appetites. It is not something that we could lack and still be fulfilled as people. It is a need arising from our metaphysical condition as free individuals, seeking our place in an objective world.
Roger Scruton
#75. The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.
Walter Moers
#76. he will then deliver a totally redundant speech about all the things you're not allowed to take inside: scissors, swords, knives, guns, bombs, ballistic missiles, tactical nuclear weapons, etc. Then you
Craig Cross
#77. Everything negative, useless, and redundant must go.
Linda Gray
#78. Knowing what I know today about how deeply the word feminist threatens the existing social compact, to say radical feminist now seems to me almost redundant. (Robin Morgan)
Clara Bingham
#79. The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind.
[ ... ]
Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.
Italo Calvino
#80. In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.
Pankaj Mishra
#81. The Jesus of the Bible lives by a simple philosophy: If love guides our hearts, rules become redundant. Love, embraced as a guiding orientation of other-centeredness, will always lead us to do the right thing.
Bruxy Cavey
#82. This edition of The Making of a Quagmire differs in a number of ways from the original one. Approximately one-third of the text has been cut in an effort to eliminate material that seemed clearly redundant or that did not relate directly to the Vietnam war.
David Halberstam
#84. Madlen: 'It's a relief to me, Lady Queen, that in your own pain, you take no interest in hurting yourself.'
Bitterblue: 'Why would I? Why should I? It's foolish. I would like to kick the people who do it.'
Madlen: 'That would, perhaps, be redundant, Lady Queen.
Kristin Cashore
#85. Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.
Alan Rudolph
#86. I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things.
Leni Zumas
#87. The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans.
Thomas Malthus
#88. Perhaps it is a good thing that we don't live long enough to realize how redundant things seem
G.E.GRAVES
#89. There are no redundant levels of security in the zone. That had been instructor Ben-Haim, back in my Ops 4-10 days. I'd learned all my paranoia from him. In the paranoia stakes, I was not worthy to secure his sandals.
Mark Henwick
#90. I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but is now become A tempest, a redundant energy, Vexing its own creation.
William Wordsworth
#92. When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.
Anthony Marra
#94. Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.
Andrew Simms
#95. My friend created an iPhone app that locates Vienna Beef products across the country. Personally, I came hardwired with an internal GPS that instinctively points me toward coffee shops, cupcake stores and the perfect Chicago-style dog, so I find this technology redundant.
Jen Lancaster
#96. The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons.
Stephen King
#97. The true purpose of illustrated journaling [is] to celebrate your life. No matter how small or mundane or redundant, each drawing and little essay you write to commemorate an event or an object or a place makes it all the more special.
Danny Gregory
#99. I come from the sort of family in which, at the age of ten, I was told I must always say hoi polloi, never "the hoi polloi," because hoi meant "the," and two "the's" were redundant
indeed something only hoi polloi would say.
Anne Fadiman
#100. I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.
Michael Moore
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