Ironic Quotes - Page 8

• The relationship that people have with music is entirely different now. People spend much less time experiencing music on a one on one level than they could have if they were a part of a different generation. I find this ironic since we have so many tools at our finger tips to be engaged by media in all forms.

  Jacob Bannon

  Media, People, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my chances of writing something that moves people because I haven't become too self-conscious of the goal.

  Christopher Rice

  Moving, Writing, Self

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• And with the Occupy Movement, it's really ironic how the police come as representatives and enforcers of the powers that be, even though the people in the Occupy Movement are really on their side - not in terms of their behavior, but in terms of their economic status, in terms of who the police are in society and how much they're paid, and if you boil it down to the economics of it, the police should be out there marching with the Occupy Movement.

  Oren Moverman

  People, Police, Occupy Movement

  "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play.

  Conrad Hyers

  Play, Levels, Existence

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• Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic. It should represent the whole of your personality, I guess, so if somebody is a sincere painter or an ironic painter, then they're just bullshitting the audience and presenting only an idealized version of themselves.

  Joe Bradley

  Personality, Want, Painting

  Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2013.

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• A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

  Moss Hart

  Moving, Humor, Self

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• It was not possible for us to produce the same optimism and the same kind of humour or irony. Actually, it was not irony. Lichtenstein is not ironic but he does have a special kind of humour. That's how I could describe it: humour and optimism. For Polke and me, everything was more fragmented. But how it was broken up is hard to describe.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Broken, Optimism

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• Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

  Susan Sontag

  Collecting, Quotations

  On Photography "Melancholy Objects" (1977)

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• Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

  Susan Sontag

  Becoming One, World, May

  On Photography "Melancholy Objects" (1977)

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• A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.

  J. D. McClatchy

  Years, Secret, Needs

  J. D. McClatchy (2013). “Twenty Questions”, p.30, Columbia University Press

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• Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

  Mason Cooley

  Past, Narrative, Nostalgia

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• I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.

  Halton Arp

  Intelligent, Reality, Wind

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• It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.

  Gore Vidal

  Ideas, Conspiracy, Obsessed

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.

  Diablo Cody

  Hipster, Jeans, Skeletons

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• By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.

  Merlin Mann

  Coffee, Mosaics, Needs

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• The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Passion, Government, Hatred

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• I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

  Gore Verbinski

  Overcoming, Stories, Possibility

  "Gore Verbinski On Cancellation Of North Korea-Based Steve Carell Film" by Mike Fleming Jr., deadline.com. December 17, 2014.

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• One of the most destructive mistakes we Christians make is to prioritize shared beliefs over shared relationship, which is deeply ironic considering we worship a God who would rather die than lose relationship with us.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Christian, Mistake, Belief

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• It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

  T Bone Burnett

  Always Trying, Overcoming, Tape

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• A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.

  Ty Burrell

  Clever, Watches, Arms

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.

  David Lynch

  Trying, Too Much, Irony

  "Inland Empire: the blogosphere's verdict" by Henrietta Clancy, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2007.

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• I'd rather be right than President.

  Henry Clay

  Inspirational, President, Ethics

  Quoted in Niles' Register, 23 Mar. 1839

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• I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another.  One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next,  visceral, ironic and relevatory-here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent.

  Janet Fitch

  Next, Waking, Wake Up

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• There are people, particularly in the United States with which I am most familiar, who would say how ironic that Tehran would be the sponsor of an anti-terrorism conference, because there are people who say that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Iran, People, United States

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• It's ironic, but true, that in this age of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever.

  Regis McKenna

  Communication, Important, Age

  Regis McKenna (1985). “The Regis touch: million-dollar advice from America's top marketing consultant”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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