Ironic Quotes - Page 11

• To be honest, I don't watch a lot of TV. It's kind of ironic because I'm on TV.

  Nina Dobrev

  Watches, Tvs, Honest

  "Nina Dobrev". www.seventeen.com. March 3, 2010.

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• It is ironic that in the same year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, some would have us ban certain forms of DNA medical research. Restricting medical research has very real human consequences, measured in loss of life and tremendous suffering for patients and their families.

  Michael J. Fox

  Real, Loss, Dna

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• How ironic for peacemaking efforts to discover that hatred is stronger for many than love; that the longing to achieve power through military victories makes so many men lose their reason, forget all shame, and betray history.

  Oscar Arias

  Military, Men, Effort

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• It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.

  Lance Armstrong

  Want, Used, Bicycle

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• Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.

  Renata Adler

  Time, Echoes, Self

  Renata Adler (1999). “Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker”

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• It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

  Ernest Becker

  Lying, Order, Needs

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

  Dick Schaap

  Sports, Horse, Hero

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• It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides

  Ed Ayres

  Athlete, Greek, Endurance

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• I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.

  Jonathan Coe

  Real, Knowing, Cynical

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• We're weird guys. I don't know if a lot of people get our humor. A lot of people probably think we're jerks. We're real sarcastic. Really ironic and stuff. We mean well, but we joke around probably a lot more than we should.

  Brendon Urie

  Sarcastic, Real, Mean

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

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• The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the windows of strip malls and paints the hypertrophic aisles with bristly-creepy hilarity.

  Stacey Levine

  Creepy, Hilarity, Narrative

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• I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing. Their answer to wealth inequality, do nothing. Health care? Do nothing. Climate change? Nothing. Racism? Doesn’t exist. For a group of people so head over heels in love with self-reliance, they sure do recommend a lot of sitting on their ass.

  Bill Maher

  Self, Racism, People

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• Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.

  Greg Cox

  Long, People, Work Out

  Greg Cox, Electric Entertainment (2013). “The Bestseller Job”, p.71, Penguin

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• We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?

  Sarah

  Thinking, Hustle, Borders

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• It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.

  Rona Barrett

  Soul, Monsters, Finals

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• Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

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• One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual, it somehow produced the freest hockey on the planet. These guys, when they got on the ice, it was like watching jazz. They could do anything. I find that a paradox. It's interesting because I think the North American style was a lot less free. It was not encouraged to be creative.

  Gabe Polsky

  Hockey, Thinking, Ice

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• I find it ironic and unfortunately because people are very vulnerable to populism now these days because they are desperate, we had really difficult times and we had difficult decisions to make. It is natural and it is logical to have people trying to not to vote for Syriza but to vote against the big parties that were in the Government for the last decade. So it is something that you can explain that way.

  Eva Kaili

  Party, Government, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

  Andrew Solomon

  Voice, Secret, Tone

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she’d captivated him.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Captives, Captivated, Mencheres

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• Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?

  Suzanne Collins

  Tables, Table Manners, Helping

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.69, Scholastic Inc.

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• I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hands, Dreamer, Promise

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.201, Penguin UK

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• As you may have heard, former President Bill Clinton says he's coming here to California to help Governor Gray Davis in his recall election campaign. Which is ironic, isn't it? When Clinton was president, he couldn't recall anything.

  Jay Leno

  California, President, Campaigns

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• I think it's kinda funny that all these rappers that used to be gangsters and thugs are telling us not to download their music from the internet, because that's stealing. Wow talk about ironic.

  Daniel Tosh

  Thug, Thinking, Rapper

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• I watched Master Class with Lorne Michaels on OWN. How can somebody produce a sketch show and talk for an hour and not say something even slightly amusing, or sarcastic, or ironic, or interesting, or informative? 'My mission as a producer is to encourage creativity.' Mission accomplished.

  Andy Kindler

  Sarcastic, Creativity, Class

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