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Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
Bad leadership is an oxymoron.
Why don't you pair'em up in threes?
A cautious creative is an oxymoron.
An honest politician is an oxymoron.
I never liked you, and I always will.
A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.
The budget was unlimited, but I exceeded it.
Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history.
I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.
I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.
I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
There is no 'recycle too much.' That's an oxymoron.
I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
I am an oxymoron, shy and confident at the same time.
An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?
The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.
I think that 'celebrity' and 'chef' should be a permanent oxymoron.
Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
My personal view of the anarch-capitalists is that it's an oxymoron.
We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.
Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists.
Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
Social distancing on a film set is an oxymoron. It can't happen, it won't happen. We can keep lying to ourselves though.
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.
So when my critics say that Sassy is only for alienated teenagers, I feel like responding, 'Well, isn't an unalienated teenager the biggest oxymoron?'
Financial innovation is an oxymoron. It's very rare that there is something that's actually financial innovation. It's a euphemism for hiding leverage.
The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together.
Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all still be wearing togas.
If you think the dominant orthodoxy - shrink your economy, render workers jobless, impoverish families, and still grow - is an oxymoron... then you would be right.
And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
As I see it, a lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron; there is no such thing. To put it plainly, churchgoers who are 'lukewarm' are not Christians. We will not see them in heaven.
I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.
In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.
I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.
Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.
Celebrity farmer. Now there's a phrase that should be an oxymoron. There are farmers on both sides of my family, and I can attest that the overlap between the way farmers live, work and think, and celebrity culture, is exactly 0%.
You know, my degrees are in computer engineering. I spent a lot of time in the tech industry. And I like to say that I don't invest in tech because I spent time in it. And I saw firsthand that the durability of technology moats is many times an oxymoron.
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
