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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If one writing contributed more than any other to the framework in which this work Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions developed, it would be an essay entitled 'The Use of Knowledge in Society,' published in the American Economic Review of September 1945, and written by F. A. Hayek . . In this plain and apparently simple essay was a deeply penetrating insight into the way societies function and malfunction, and clues as to why they are so often and so profoundly misunderstood.
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Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".
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We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee even better standards of care.
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I always try to find the positives in losing a match, but it's not always easy.
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If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.