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The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.
I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.
I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.
It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.
It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL
We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?
It’s ironic. At last I have my freedom. But at a price. Now my destiny is mine to choose. - Stanley aka Nine
Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.
Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.
Putting myself out there knowing I can be criticized - it's ironic, but to me, that's the most empowering thing.
By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.
I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear
The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.
People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.
I went to school at the University of Rhode Island and pursued a degree in journalism, which is a little bit ironic.
It's so ironic that life is all about love, yet we live most of it either searching, never finding, or messing it up.
It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.
It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.
I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.
Humor is based on the way a man looks at life's ironies, and being a member of a minority group can certainly be ironic.
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.
Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.
It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.
Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'
Westminster's hardly a billboard for people-centred politics. Given its makeup, the term 'Commons' is pretty ironic, too.
Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"?
Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
I'm comfortable looking sexy. I don't push it with poses, although I like the ironic part of it. That's what makes it fun.
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.
MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.
The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.
It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.
I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments.
I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be in control of his time.
It's ironic to watch a dress on a mannequin or a model on a catwalk who's not anything like the person that's going to buy it.
It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am.
I'm not a great flyer. It's ironic, since I'm in showbiz and have to fly at least twice a week. I try to sleep and blot it out.
Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in the Middle East.
It's ironic, but true, that in this age of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever.
I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished.
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.