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• The UN may not be very effective but I am a fan of the idea of the United Nations. I have been there, I know the problems. To parody Winston Churchill: It is the worst system, except we don't have any other.

  Mary Robinson

  Ideas, Fans, May

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.

  Audre Lorde

  Self, Connections, Settling

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• In a musical sense, it seemed like all the good intentions had gone awry, very quickly. I mean, we got back from America and Blur had made The Great Escape, which I thought was a really, truly awful album - so cheesy, like a parody of Parklife, but without the balls or the intellect. And Oasis were enormous and I always found them incredibly dreary. There was this uncritical reverence surrounding the whole thing

  Justine Frischmann

  Mean, Oasis, America

  "Elastica Limits". Interview with Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from our throats," to borrow Ralph Waldo Emerson's parody of elite fears that inspired early advocates of public mass education.

  Noam Chomsky

  Needs, Originality, Inspired

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Look at the fact Donald Trump cannot tie a tie. My father took me aside and taught me how to do this when I was eight. He can't shake hands. These are the basic building blocks of traditional masculine style, and he's a parody of it.

  Stephen Marche

  Father, Block, Hands

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Hate, Moving, Writing

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Mean, Black And White, Tv Shows

  "Dan Aykroyd Talks Vodka, 'SNL' And Hellhound Blues". Interview with Kenneth Hein, www.forbes.com. February 18, 2013.

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• I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

  Pat Robertson

  Reality, Wings, Right Wing

  "Pat Robertson: A Life, A Legacy, Part 1". Interview with Lee Webb, www.cbn.com.

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• A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.

  James Wolcott

  Kings, Purple, Typical

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• Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely.

  Alan Moore

  Lonely, Reflection, Men

  "Watchmen". Comic book by Alan Moore, 1986-1987.

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• Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

  Tom Wolfe

  Voice, Target, Hostile

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• By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Youtube, Studios

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• I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

  Al Yankovic

  I Can, Offended

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the ‘Oh how banal.’

  David Foster Wallace

  Eye, Artist, Risk

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Ideas, Trying

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• Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay and gain, the obvious fraud on nature, the excessive payment for a trick of genius, had to be offset by self-parody.

  Bruno Schulz

  Men, Self, Cost

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Eternal

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• With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.

  Craig Ferguson

  People, Smarter

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• Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Butterfly, Enough Time, Dew

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Poems On Time”

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• This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Communication, Media

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Take shots at em, I guess you could call it a parody. But compared to D, they one-fourth from watermelon to a quarter felon, dude you a pear to me.

  Drake

  Humble, Ems, Felons

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• We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Writing, Use

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• As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

  Michael Haneke

  Film, Genre, Can Not

  "Decade: Michael Haneke Talks 'Code Inconnu' and 'The Piano Teacher'". www.indiewire.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.

  John Podhoretz

  Zero, Memories, Grief

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• Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Literary Theory, Literature, Jargon

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