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• Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be `so bad they were good`. They were not made for the intelligentsia. They were made to be violent for real, or to be sexy for real. But now everybody has irony. Even horror films now are ironic. Everybody's in on the joke now. Everybody's hip. Nobody takes anything at face value anymore.

  John Waters

  Sexy, Real, Ironic

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• If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

  Kanye West

  Writing, Airports, Two

  "Kanye West responds to Obama criticism" by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2013.

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• Because of various security lapses, some senators are calling for a probe of the security at the offices of the Department of Homeland Security. The investigation will be conducted by the Department of Irony.

  Amy Poehler

  Office, Calling, Lapses

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• I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.

  Gene Wilder

  Life, Believe, Fate

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• I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.

  Werner Herzog

  Thinking, Able, Defects

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.

  Greg Proops

  Country, Honesty, Opinion

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• In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, with its roots in Western fantasies about barbaric others, has been to focus primarily on 'cultural' rather than 'individual' realities. The irony is that anthropology has always been rooted in an 'I' - understood as having a complex psychology and history - observing a 'we' that, until recently, was viewed as plural, ahistorical, and nonindividuated.

  Ruth Behar

  Reality, Voice, Roots

  Ruth Behar (2014). “The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart”, p.26, Beacon Press

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• Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and his razor sharp exploration of our contemporary ironies will break your heart.

  Margot Livesey

  Hero, Writing, Heart

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• It is an irony that the more possessive you are, the more love you demand, the less you receive, while the more freedom you give, the less you demand, the more love you will receive.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Love You, Giving, Demand

  Harold H. Bloomfield, Natasha Josefowitz (1992). “Love Secrets for a Lasting Relationship”, Bantam Books

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• The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.

  Raymond Chandler

  War, Civilization, America

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• The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.

  John C. Bogle

  Groups, Investing, Pay

  John C. Bogle (2010). “The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns”, p.41, John Wiley & Sons

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• You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.

  Simon R. Green

  Running, Sometimes, Swear

  Simon R. Green (2007). “The Man With the Golden Torc”, p.196, Penguin

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• The other thing I said is the great irony is you will be back fighting against your own weapons. Had [Bashar] Assad been bombed when he used chemical weapons two years ago, ISIS would be in charge of all of Syria now.

  Rand Paul

  Fighting, Isis, Years

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms-- the adventure, the mystery, the thriller-- so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

  Avi

  Book, Writing, Adventure

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• If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

  Paul Beatty

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.

  Kathleen Norris

  Dying, Desert, Faces

  Kathleen Norris (2001). “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some people suffer in silence louder than others.

  Morrie Brickman

  Funny, People, Silence

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• It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections

  Paul Johnson

  Running, America, Leader

  Paul Johnson (1991). “Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The great irony of executive compensation is, if you pay your employees more, you're gonna create more demand for your goods and services! Which is gonna lead to more executive compensation than if you pay your employees less and try to take all the cream off of the top.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Trying, Demand, Pay

  ""Life Is Unfair": Talking Inequality With The Hedge Fund Industry's Biggest Cheerleader". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 5, 2015.

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• If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that those redeemed by Christ should be so backward in devotion, and know so little of the spirit of self-sacrifice. They would be ashamed of the hesitations that hinder us. But we must remember that it was not by interceding for the world in glory that Jesus saved it. He gave Himself. Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony as we only give of our superfluity and draw back before the sacrifice of ourselves.

  Francois Coillard

  Faith, Christian, Jesus

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• People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

  John Lennon

  Music, Ignorance, Thinking

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

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• I've always been a sci-fi geek, and I've always loved it. It's my favorite genre of all. The irony of ironies is that, in my early career, I just really never worked in it. "Star Trek" was very interested in me, partially because I did "From the Earth to the Moon," and I was really interested in them, but the timing just never worked out.

  Remi Aubuchon

  Stars, Moon, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx failed to recognize the incentive system built into the capitalist model - consumer choice and the profit motive of the entrepreneur. The irony is that capitalism, not socialism or Marxism, that has liberated the worker from the chains of poverty, monopoly, war, and oppression, and has better achieved Marx's vision of a millennium of hope, peace, abundance, leisure, and aesthetic expression for the 'full' human being.

  Mark Skousen

  War, Expression, Ideas

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• Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

  Stefan Kanfer

  Powerful, Two, Essentials

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• I want to get a tattoo of the word irony, only misspelled.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Tattoo, Want

  Twitter post from Sep 16, 2010

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