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Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement. -- Alan Rudolph
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
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
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
In San Francisco, Haloween is redundant. -- Will Durst
Second sight is redundant to reason anyway. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
If I masturbate while Googling myself, which part is more redundant? -- Dana Gould
I don't need to be redundant to the gay community about what's wrong and what isn't happening for them. -- Sandra Bernhard
Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor. -- Toni Braxton
All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake. -- Kurt Vonnegut
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
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
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story -- Glenn Danzig
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
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
The cost of appearing with a bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. 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. -- Donald Trump
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
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
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
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
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
To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant. -- Mitch Leigh
If two people always agree, one of them is redundant. -- Ben Bernanke
I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive. -- Angel Haze
The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience. -- Anurag Kashyap
Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like, 'Here I am holding a red ball.' -- Teller
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
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
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story. -- Glenn Danzig
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I believe that good investors are successful not because of their IQ, but because they have an investing discipline. But, what is more disciplined than a machine? A well-researched machine can make many average investors redundant, leaving behind only the really good human investors with exceptional intuition and skill. -- Stanley Druckenmiller
Without question, students need to practice, review, and drill skills, but they should do so only in the spirit of working toward more complex mastery of those skills. Redundant drill of skills is inherently boring and insulting to the learner, and it is one of the most effective methods for turning students off to learning. -- Heidi Hayes Jacobs
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
If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it. -- Salman Rushdie
The term 'working mother' is redundant. -- Erma Bombeck
In San Francisco, Halloween is redundant. -- Will Durst
I think "creative preaching" is redundant. -- Max Lucado
It's redundant to die in Los Angeles. -- Truman Capote
In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant. -- Robin Williams
I'm nothing if not redundant! I also repeat myself. -- Richard Fish
The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength. -- John Milton
If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant. -- Larry Wall
Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important. -- Blake Mycoskie
Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist. -- Italo Calvino
Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind. -- Andrew Simms
The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily. -- Walter Moers
I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television. -- Joe Buck
No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork. -- Bill Gates
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The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing. -- Mark Kozelek
When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that are redundant or farcical. -- Anthony Paletta
Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy. -- Rick Perry
I need to keep it spontaneous as an artist, so for me to repeat a face would be redundant and boring. -- Chris Mars
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. -- Roberto Bolano
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
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
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
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
A parent's words maybe a little harsh and painful, but it will be their annoying redundant words of love and care that will mold us into a better person. -- Rea Erika Paraz Ebate
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
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
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

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