Ironic Quotes - Page 9

• It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why we need art. By expressing our actual experience, the artist reminds us that our science is incomplete, that no map of matter will ever explain the immateriality of our consciousness.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Art, Reality, Needs

  Jonah Lehrer (2011). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.12, Canongate Books

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• Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

  Allan Kaprow

  Fame

  Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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• 'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.

  Chris Weitz

  Fantasy Novels, Ideas, Popcorn

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Enlightenment

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• I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.

  Mark Skousen

  New York, Airports, Cities

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• I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue.

  George Saunders

  Kids, Thinking, Issues

  "Interview: George Sanders gives advice". Interview with Sally Errico, www.newyorker.com. March 22, 2012.

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• I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.

  Brian Jacques

  Children, Writing, Thinking

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• When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

  Dario Fo

  Art, Boys, Stories

  "Fo delights his audience with boyhood tales" by Kirsty Scott, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2005.

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• Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

  Gillian Flynn

  Kryptonite, People, Earnestness

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.281, Broadway Books

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• Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.

  Frans de Waal

  Hippie, People, Warfare

  "The Bonobo in All of Us". Interview with Sue Western, www.pbs.org. September 29, 2005.

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• I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Country, Dating, Vampire

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.1111, Penguin

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• 'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, Literature

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.18, Bantam

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• John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Years, Four

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• Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop defense mechanisms, such as media-savvy attitudes or ironic dispositions. Then marketers research these defenses, develop new countermeasures, and on it goes.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Children, Attitude, Media

  Douglas Rushkoff (2006). “ScreenAgers: Lessons in Chaos from Digital Kids”, Hampton Press (NJ)

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• What gets measured gets managed.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Clever, 4 Hour Work Week

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• It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.

  Cesar Chavez

  Vegetables, Justice, Diversity

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

  Eddie Izzard

  Police, Tests, Comedy

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• What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it with their situation, all in the service of making a great horror movie. It was fresh.

  Joss Whedon

  People, Care, Horror

  "Joss Whedon on writing horror and superheroes for fanboys and casual viewers alike". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Self, Arrogance, Pedestal

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• Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

  Drake

  Life, Death, Humble

  Song: Moment 4 Life, Album: Heartbreak Drake 2K11: The 2nd Semester

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• I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Goodbye, Children, Stupid

  Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 22, 2008.

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• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

  Errol Morris

  Past, Infancy Is, History

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• How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Real, War

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.166, Harper Collins

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• It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Should Have, Political, Intellectual

  "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life". Book by Richard Hofstadter, pp. 145-146, 1963.

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• Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

  Karl Kraus

  Dog, Moon, Sentimental

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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