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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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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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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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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When I ask to photograph someone, it is because I love the way they look and I think I make that clear. I'm paying them a tremendous compliment. What I'm saying is, I want to take you home with me and look at you for the rest of my life.
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The irony here is that the Latino left had criticized the conservative movement for years that they were not doing outreach to the Latino community. Now that the conservative movement is doing outreach and engaging in the Latino community on a national scale, they're criticizing us for that too. You can't have it both ways.
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Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.
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Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.
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She's a total bam bam.
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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.
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We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
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One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
