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[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.
There's an irony about making a film about punk because punk isn't supposed to have feature films made about it.
For me, true kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It's very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams.
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.
guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.
Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well
I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.
The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.
The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.
The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht. "Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy.
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.
I have a huge fear of crowds. The irony is that my band is a therapeutic exercise. I hurl myself into thousands of people.
That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.
The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.
I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.
England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.
I love power ballads and the earnest lack of irony and emotion that exists in '80s music, along with synth guitars, of course.
The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.
I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.
We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.
My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.
People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.
Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.
It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.
The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.
Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?
The grim irony of investing 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.
Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?
That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.