Irony Quotes - Page 8

• La Zona is such a closed area, a dangerous, outlaw area. My time in the Zona was a time outside of society, almost out of the real world. And the girls there had such a sense of irony and sarcasm. They were also really interested in my film. They'd be like, "Thank God we live in Mexico, because our kind of prostitution has a heart. We wouldn't want to sit behind a glass cage or be sold by our own mothers. We have free will."

  Michael Glawogger

  Girl, Mother, Real

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity.

  Ben Lerner

  Moving, Writing, Sincerity

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• Making a show is also economics. Because the irony is, or the shame of it is, you cannot create a show instantaneously. It needs to be massaged. You need to see who is relating to who. How is it working with the audience? You need to give it a chance for the audience to find it, because there are so many outlets. And the audience doesn't know where to go.

  Henry Winkler

  Giving, Needs, Chance

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Me mudé a Nueva Inglaterra en parte porque tiene un verdadero pasado literario. Los fantasmas de Hawthorne y Melville aún se posan en esas verdes colinas. El culto a Mammon también se ve algo atenuado allí por el espíritu de la ironía. Tampoco tengo fiebre del heno en Nueva Inglaterra.

  John Updike

  Real, Pasado, Fiebre del Heno

  London Observer, 25 de marzo de 1979.

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• Finally, a prominent nation is taking on the homosexual agenda and rejecting it outright. A number of African nations have done the same, but third-world countries are not newsworthy to mainstream media. The irony is stunning that a Communist nation would understand that preserving the value of men and women marrying and producing children makes for demographic survival, while many American Christian leaders cower in the shadows, in fear of activist homosexuals and their leftist supporters. I say 'cheers' to the Russians on this one. That nation will probably outlive America.

  Sylvia Thompson

  Christian, Country, Cheer

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• Las personas fuertes se defienden a sí mismas. La gente fuerte defiende a los demás. Lo irónico es que, aunque a veces el sueño me trae pesadillas, es la realidad de mis horas de vigilia la que puede causarme más miedo.

  Chris Gardner

  Strong, Sleep, Reality

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• Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Appreciation, Virtue, Your Favorite

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.252, Hachette UK

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• The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.

  David Foster Wallace

  Powerful, Impossible, Reason

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• Las caricaturas son una parte importante de nuestra cultura de debate. Deben calmar las disputas políticas mediante el humor y la ironía. Se trata de hacer una declaración fuerte pero suavizándola con un guiño. Así que los daneses no se enfadan demasiado por las caricaturas. A ninguno de nosotros le interesa insultar a los musulmanes.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Strong, Political, Upset

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Artist, Voice, Musical

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.

  Joseph Campbell

  Evil, Alive, Creation

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.80, Anchor

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• It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.

  Jedediah Purdy

  Opposites, Oversimplification

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• Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to demonize doctors without much success . . . . Obama even gets away with saying things like having a system to 'keep insurance companies honest' - and many people may not see the painful irony in politicians trying to keep other people honest.

  Thomas Sowell

  Doctors, People, Trying

  "Whose Medical Decisions?: Part IV" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 19, 2009.

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• As a new president takes office and elevates global warming alarmism to official federal policy, much of America is experiencing record low temperatures. While the deep freeze amounts to little more than irony, Americans should nevertheless take what could well be a last opportunity to reconsider the cliff off which Barack Obama, Al Gore and the rest of the global warming industry want us to jump.

  Steven Milloy

  Opportunity, America, Office

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• To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near and to record in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty, (of the flesh or otherwise) horror, irony, traces of utopia or Hell. Select your team with care, but when in doubt, take on some new crew and give them a chance. But avoid at all costs fluctuations of sincerity with your best people.

  Dan Eldon

  Children, Team, Eye

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• One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as perfect patterns for all to emulate. In the very struggle to be like someone else rather than to be one's own true self, or to do one's own best in one's own environment, a child is in danger of losing the pearl that is really beyond price - the integrity of his (or her) own soul.

  Sophia Lyon Fahs

  Jesus, Children, Integrity

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• It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow of capitalism, was to save its antagonist, both in war and in peace - that is to say, by providing it with the incentive, fear, to reform itself after the Second World War, and, by establishing the popularity of economic planning, furnishing it with some of the procedures for its reform

  Eric Hobsbawm

  War, October Revolution, Reform

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• The irony is I did an intimate film in France with no stars and that got me to Hollywood. It got me to the Oscars. If I had tried to imitate the Americans or the Hollywood movies with a commercial recipe, I'd never have gotten to Hollywood. Although, it was not my goal in any way, and I never thought there was any connection between Monsieur Lazhar and the Oscars.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Stars, Goal, Hollywood

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful. You see yourself do the work, which shows you that you can do the work. Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day. One of the painful ironies of work life is that the anxiety of procrastination often makes people even less likely to buckle down in the future.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Motivational, Writing, Procrastination

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• The irony is, of course, that many of the values that I was raised with, that I think are very important, that I hold dear, are the result of a religious faith.

  Steve Coogan

  Religious, Thinking, Important

  "Steve Coogan Doesn't Believe in Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I think there's something in common with the OSS 117 movies. The big difference is there's no irony in this one. It's not parody. I tried to make it very simple. It's a simple story, but to be simple, it's very complex in the way it's done.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Thinking, Simple, Differences

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• Lo que hoy se llama música no es, con demasiada frecuencia, más que un disfraz del monólogo del poder. Sin embargo, y esta es la ironía suprema de todo, nunca antes los músicos se habían esforzado tanto por comunicarse con su público, y nunca antes esa comunicación había sido tan engañosa. Ahora la música apenas parece más que una excusa algo torpe para la autoglorificación de los músicos y el crecimiento de un nuevo sector industrial.

  Jacques Attali

  Comunicación, Crecimiento Personal

  "Ensayos clásicos sobre la música del siglo XX". Libro de Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, 1996.

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• Pero aquella noche, mientras conducía de vuelta a Montreal, al menos descubrí esto: que no hay una explicación sencilla para nada importante que hagamos cualquiera de nosotros, y que la tragedia humana, o la ironía humana, consiste en la necesidad de vivir con las consecuencias de acciones realizadas bajo la presión de compulsiones tan oscuras que no las entendemos ni podemos entenderlas.

  Hugh MacLennan

  Simple, Night, Tragedy

  Hugh MacLennan (2009). “Watch that Ends the Night”, p.266, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• La vida está llena de ironías y paradojas.

  John Hurt

  Life Is, Paradox

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 22, 2007.

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• Usually, when you do a period movie, you just recreate what you are shooting. You don't recreate the way you shoot it. I think I did the same thing here as I did in the OSS 117 movies. I recreated the way to shoot that period, because to me, like what I was saying about the Steadicam, there's no sense to do a Steadicam shot in the 1920s because you have never seen the '20s like that. You can't believe there was a Steadicam in the 1920s. I believe it's a continuation of the OSS 117 in a way but without the irony.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Believe, Thinking, Shooting

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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