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• Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.

  Adrian Smith

  Learning, Would Be, Answers

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• One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.

  Alan Watts

  Men, Ego, Mind

  Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.66, New World Library

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• I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Clown, Made

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• My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Artist, Ideas

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Celebration, Characteristics, Mockery

  "Ana Gasteyer Talks Living in Suburgatory". Redbook interview, www.redbookmag.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling, and which repetitions become domesticated and recirculated as instruments of cultural hegemony

  Judith Butler

  Hegemony, Way, Kind

  Judith Butler (2011). “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity”, p.189, Routledge

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• ... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more ductile material than meaning... It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Age, Resurrection

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• What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.

  Max Tundra

  Special, Bugs, Originals

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender issues while parody of sexism disrupts the status quo and undermines regressive gender conventions.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Player, Differences, Issues

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• When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.

  Ben Stiller

  Growing Up, Creativity, Spinal Tap

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just out of respect, right guys?

  Jim Norton

  New York, Appreciate, Guy

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• North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in infancy, during the fourteen-hour days spent in factory day-care centers; that for the subsequent fifty years, every song, film, newspaper article, and billboard was designed to deify Kim Il-sung; that the country was hermetically sealed to keep out anything that might cast doubt on Kim Il-sung's divinity. Who could possibly resist?

  Barbara Demick

  Country, Song, Korea

  Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.42, Granta

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• Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.

  Umberto Eco

  Inspiration, Reading, Exercise

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• I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, World, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Real, Wind

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.372

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• The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original film was. Even if Part II were a lot more cohesive, revealing and exciting than it is, it probably would have run the risk of appearing to be the self-parody it now seems…Its insights are fairly lame at this point.

  Vincent Canby

  Running, Self, Risk

  "‘Godfather, Part II’ Is Hard to Define" by Vincent Canby, www.nytimes.com. December 13, 1974.

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• The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Horse, Devil, Four

  1900 'The Donkey'.

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• Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

  Al Yankovic

  Hate

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

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• There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

  Tobias Wolff

  Fall, Writing, Self

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• How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

  Nate Mendel

  Simple, Men, Thinking

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• There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films … like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

  Andy Milonakis

  Art, Want, Sides

  "Kickin' it with Andy Milonakis". Interview with Bethonie Butler, ew.com. September 18, 2007.

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• Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Time, Wealth, Clock

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.412, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by creating marginal spaces in which they can articulate and question their identity. Radical politics thus becomes an endless mocking parody and provocation, a gradual process of reidentification in which there are not final victories and ultimate demarcations

  Slavoj Žižek

  Creating, Space, Goal

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• The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was even hard to discover, it was almost a parody of corruption. The behavior of the delegates in New York is comically corrupt as well. The amazing thing is that there are still people who want to give the UN MORE power, and to become a real world government... Sigh

  John Hamill

  New York, Real, Oil

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