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I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. Charlie Chaplin
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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews. Catherynne M. Valente
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The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it. Jamie Zawinski
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Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem. Diane Ackerman
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History, in the end, becomes a form of irony. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Irony is the glory of slaves. Czeslaw Milosz
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Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony. Ann Beattie
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We knew 3-point shooting was their game. There's a lot of irony in it in that we go on the same philosophy. Megan Ronhovde
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The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is. Masanobu Fukuoka
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse. X. J. Kennedy
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists. Yann Martel
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know. Imelda May
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that. Idris Elba
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When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that. Gad Elmaleh
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk. Gail Carriger
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I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.
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Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor. Donald Trump
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Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you. Zadie Smith
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In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.
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The overall trend is downward. There are fewer toxic chemicals going into the environment, but we want to see that amount go down even more.
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If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene. Wole Soyinka
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To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more. Nathaniel Branden
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That was the first time in recent memory that their estimation tools have not captured what is the current amount of risk in these businesses.
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We have an excessive amount of paperwork and clutter.
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We have an equivalent amount of energy in just one gram or about a raisin-size worth of antimatter.
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We have an enormous amount of great teachers out there, terrific teachers ... but we cannot get rid of the bad teachers. They're called the lemons. Each school has those lemons. And they call it the dance of the lemons, where they kick them from school to school but you can't get them out, ... What I say is, 'Let's kick them right out and let's dance them out the door rather than dancing them from school to school.' Arnold Schwarzenegger
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We have a minimum amount of risk for a really substantial reward,