Adam Braver Quotes
My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that. Always keeping the other prisoners as murderers, thieves, that sort of thing, which has a certain irony to it, I guess. It's a curious thing.
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Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
Gail Collins
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I don't trust a lot of journalists.
Calvin Klein
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Samuel Butler
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
E. O. Wilson
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Manuel Puig
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It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.
P. J. O'Rourke
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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Being lost is worth the being found.
Neil Diamond
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The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.
Samuel Barnett
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If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.
Weegee
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Actions speak louder than words. The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces.
Eason Jordan
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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
Andrew Vachss
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I've heard the government say many nice things. But it did make some gestures, like writing human rights protection into the constitution - that surprised me. And it improved the conditions for foreign journalists: It used to be impossible for you to meet with me personally. But there still hasn't been a real improvement in the human rights situation.
Liu Xiaobo
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If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
Oscar Wilde
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Irony is wasted on the stupid.
Oscar Wilde
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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?
Joanne Rowling
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For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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You can't disbar unethical journalists.
Mike Cernovich
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I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.
H. G. Wells
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One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Norman Vincent Peale
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People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that. Always keeping the other prisoners as murderers, thieves, that sort of thing, which has a certain irony to it, I guess. It's a curious thing.
Adam Braver