Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
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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.
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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.
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
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Being lost is worth the being found.
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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.
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Irony is wasted on the stupid.
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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?
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I could live a week on one good compliment.
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I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.
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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
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Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.
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I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
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In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.
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It feels like a continuation of the Blondie sound. It's very eclectic, ... Our influences are not all musical. We're influenced by art, culture, camp values and irony. That's what puts us away from the rest of the pack.
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One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.
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The irony is that Barack Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.
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Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
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Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.
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I'm very introverted, so it requires a huge effort for me to put on a smile and extend a hand and accept compliments. I would much rather be insulted than complimented any day.
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She's a total bam bam.
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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.
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Children don’t need to have their feelings agreed with; they need to have them acknowledged.
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As children, we think that whatever world surrounds us is normal. As I entered fourth and fifth grades and began spending time in the homes of other kids, my world grew. I spent a lot of time watching and thinking about the way people interacted with other people. I began to see that not all families were like mine.
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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
