Tongue In Cheek Quotes

• Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Believe, Marketing

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• There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.

  Peter Noone

  Song, Sunset, Hands

  "Proud Hermit: The British Invasion’s Peter Noone". Interview with Al Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. May 22, 2011.

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• Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

  Brad Paisley

  Tongue, Serious, Ballads

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

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• It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.

  John Carpenter

  Looks, Rooms, Tongue

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• We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.

  Bode Miller

  Fun, Kids, Winning

  "Bad boy bode" by Bill Saporito, James Graff, Helen Scott-Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2006.

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• Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist story - because there's an inherent voice you're trying to copy (and often to satirize).

  Alexander Weinstein

  Voice, Trying, Tongue

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

  John Schlesinger

  Tongue, Has Beens, Cheeks

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• In 2005, the Global Language Monitor-a nonprofit organization that does exactly what its name suggests-issued a tongue-in-cheek list of the year's most politically correct words and phrases. Top

  Kevin Dutton

  Years, Names, Organization

  Kevin Dutton (2011). “Split-Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art and New Science of Changing Minds”, p.121, HMH

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• I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but my academic involvement with Burroughs was entirely due to my tutor at Oxford, Peter Conrad. I was discussing with him the idea of staying on to do graduate work and when I tossed the name of Burroughs into the conversation - well, he let it fall loudly onto the floor, and proceeded to cross himself as if warding off an evil spirit. Since I was very ambivalent about an academic career in any case, that decided it for me.

  Oliver Harris

  Book, Fall, Names

  Source: bigother.com

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• There's actually an article in the Washington Post, I don't know whether it's tongue in cheek or not, which said the criterion for being on the list of banned states is that [Donald] Trump doesn't have business interests there.

  Noam Chomsky

  Tongue, Lists, Criteria

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

  Mick Jagger

  Country, Thinking, Tongue

  "Mick Jagger Remembers". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. December 14, 1995.

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• To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.

  Robert Kirkman

  Character, Zombie, World

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• We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

  Lucy Lawless

  Tongue, Comedy, Shows

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• Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

  David Coverdale

  Song, Tongue, Cheeks

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• That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

  El-P

  Dark, Done, Tongue

  Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. May 8, 2007.

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• I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then.

  Girl Talk

  High School, Tongue, Pops

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said `When I think of the group, I always think of power and force. There's a definite presence there.' That was it. He wanted to call it `Obelisk'. To me, it was more important what was behind the obelisk. The cover is very tongue-in-cheek, to be quite honest. Sort of a joke on 2001. I think it's quite amusing.

  Jimmy Page

  Thinking, Important, Groups

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• I'm definitely in the market for being uncool. There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people that I have tattoos and cigarettes so that they know I'm badass. But really, I do have tattoos! And I do smoke cigarettes sometimes, and I can't change that. But I am not badass, by any means. I do some stuff that's tongue-in-cheek, and some stuff that's on the line. And it could be funny, it could be serious, and I never even know myself, because it could be funny that day, and the next day it's totally embarrassing.

  Ryan Adams

  Tattoo, Badass, Mean

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and taken as very pretentious and serious all the time. I would think, "Do you not see there's a lot of tongue-in-cheek and humor here?"

  Paul Banks

  Taken, Thinking, Misunderstood

  "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.

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• With all due respect to Mick Jagger, who is one of my idols, I think it's a mistake to leap around and sing at 53. When I started, there weren't any women I looked up to. It was Mick. I never saw anybody go on a stage and have that tongue-in-cheek attitude. It was all straight, including the Beatles. I love his attitude, hands on hips and lips out.

  Grace Slick

  Attitude, Mistake, Thinking

  Interview with Mary Campbell, articles.latimes.com. January 01, 1993.

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• I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.

  Christopher Walken

  Distance, Play, People

  "Christopher Walken: 'No matter who I play, it's me'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2012.

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• It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, People, Tongue

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• Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into the ecosystems around us, but without sacrificing all the niceties of civilization like good restaurants, concert halls, and high-speed Internet access. I'm saying that partly tongue-in-cheek, but I'm also deadly serious. The future of technology is sustainable ecology.

  Annalee Newitz

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Technology

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Richelle Mead delivers sexy action and tongue-in-cheek hellish humor-if damnation is this fun, sign me up!

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Sexy, Fun, Damnation

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• People are complex, and I think it's a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact that you talk about quite serious things with a sense of irony and tongue-in-cheek humor. That's my personality as well.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Thinking, People, Personality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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