To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.
I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I�m a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I�m not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn�t exist.
It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.
Parody is homage gone sour.
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.
Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Old age is life's parody.
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
You can parody almost anything.
I see parody as another form of comedy.
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That was the first acting thing I did.
There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.
It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.
A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.
What doesn't kill you makes you smaller
In the sense that Watchmen references movies, comic books, pop culture in general. It knows it's a movie. I really do like movies that ride that fine line, the razor's edge between parody and supporting the fake movie part of the movie.
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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