A Quote by John Carroll

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

John Carroll

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Ideological Lies Pursuit Trivial Ugliness

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John Carroll
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January 8, 1735 - December 3, 1815

Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

Frederick Lenz

You know what I'm great at? Trivial Pursuit. What good is that gonna do you in life? It has the word 'trivial' in the name. The game is basically telling you that you pursue trivial things. Trivial - as in not important. Trivial - as in maybe you should've gone to grad school.

Christian Finnegan

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Marcel Proust

I don't want to be a Trivial Pursuit question.

Nick Viall

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

Alfred Adler

I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.

Kevin Youkilis

The ugliness of the beauty is much horrible than the ugliness of the ugliness.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

Alan Bennett

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

Federico Fellini

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

Ted Cruz

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

Bobby Flay

Play Trivial Pursuit with me, and you'll be astonished. I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.

James St. James

Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the glory of God.

Paul Washer

True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.

Dan Buettner

Politicians in Washington work in a small, sheltered world where they lurch from crisis to crisis that they create, nurture and use as ideological triggers in their selfish pursuit of re-election.

Mike Barnicle

I remember us all playing Trivial Pursuit at home and my granddad was a member of a local quiz leagues. When I was old enough, I joined the Bolton leagues.

Jenny Ryan

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