Irony Quotes - Page 29

• Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Perfect, Needs

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• Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

  Susan Sontag

  Two, Creative, Culture

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.177, Macmillan

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• The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspiring, Tired, Helping Others

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.65, Harmony

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  With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

  George Harrison

  Hope, Mistake, Ironic

  Song: While My Guitar Gently Weeps Acoustic Version

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• The irony here is that the Latino left had criticized the conservative movement for years that they were not doing outreach to the Latino community. Now that the conservative movement is doing outreach and engaging in the Latino community on a national scale, they're criticizing us for that too. You can't have it both ways.

  Daniel Garza

  Years, Community, Movement

  "Being Moody: Inside the battle for Latino voters" by Chris Moody, www.cnn.com. June 21, 2015.

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• One of the great ironies of my career is that people imagine me as some sort of hardcore metal guy because of the Metallica film.

  Joe Berlinger

  Careers, People, Guy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Slavery, Christ

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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• As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.

  Molly Ivins

  Humor, Thinking, Sky

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.14, Vintage

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• I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Tired, Mean, Sarcasm

  "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

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• If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Good Life, Men

  Source: www.heavenonearthdocumentary.com

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• I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can laugh at their troubles. They can enjoy sitcoms. For those who aren't quite so lucky, well, the irony might be lost on them.

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, Class, Luxury

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Women have always been more critical of marriage than men. The great mysterious irony of it is - at least it's the stereotype - that women want to get married and men are trying to avoid it. Marriage doesn't benefit women as much as men, and it never has. And women, once they are married, become very critical of marriages in a way that men don't.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men, Trying, Benefits

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

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• In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is really just a natural evolution. The irony is that none of the processes that have been replaced have disappeared. More people than ever are practicing every approach to shooting and printing.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, People, Shooting

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• The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.

  David Cross

  Funny, Country, Humor

  "Shut Up, You Fucking Baby!". Live comedy album by David Cross, November 5, 2002.

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• I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody takes religion as seriously as we do here. We have a free market in religion. The religious groups are competing with each other.

  Eric Foner

  Religious, Thinking, Church

  "Life Is Getting More Difficult for Americans". Interview with Karen Andresen and Cordula Meyer, www.spiegel.de. October 30, 2008.

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• In my film "Benny's Video," I depicted violence but I failed to say all that I had to say, so I wanted to continue the dialog and that's why I did "Funny Games." The irony is that after I shot "Funny Games," but it hadn't been released at all anywhere.

  Michael Haneke

  Games, Video, Violence

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• I never thought about whether film is inherently more sincere, because certainly I think if Guy Maddin had directed A Series Of Unfortunate Events, there probably could have been more of the stage-y irony that is in the books. But I was just interested to see what people would do with it, and worrying that Brad Silberling wouldn't do what I had in mind.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I believe in irony. And if V-Day has taught me anything, it's that if you go out with artistic, outrageous irony and humor, people are drawn to it.

  Eve Ensler

  Believe, People, Taught

  "Eve Ensler on “good” bodies and bad politics". Interview with Andi Zeisler, www.motherjones.com. November/December, 2004.

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• Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

  Eben Alexander

  Inspirational, Life, Laughter

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.

  John Waters

  New York, People, Wanted

  Interview with Jonathan Ross, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 1998.

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• Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Class, Community, Black

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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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• Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people. The irony is that it is actually in your best interest to be selfless. The things you do for the benefit of others not only make you feel fulfilled, they increase your chances of living a long and happy life. Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.

  Bernie Siegel

  Happy Life, Two, Long

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.108, Random House

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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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• I like the irony in my work.

  Miuccia Prada

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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