Lily Allen (Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper) Quotes
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
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As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
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Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.
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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
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People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.
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Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.
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There`s a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
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Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.
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Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
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The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
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I think I'm a man that's basically misunderstood.
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I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
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I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win.
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What's interesting about Twitter is the unmediatedness of it, the directness of it. I'm on a train somewhere in New York and I send out a tweet. Somebody sitting at dinner in Bombay checks their phone and they see it.
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Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
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If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.
