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"Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance."
"The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security."
"Funny thing is, until I met you all I wanted to do was to get as far away from here as I could. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Can't get much farther away than where I"m going, and now I'd give anything to stay."
"It's kind of ironic that when you look at the evidence of intelligence and so on, a lot of it is anecdotal. A lot of it is, "Well, we saw this dolphin do this extraordinary thing," or, "We screwed up with our apparatus, and then the dolphins did this." And so it seems to me that the more we can actually watch them doing their thing, the better chance we'll have of making some sense of them."
"Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous."
"I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings."
""Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass."
"There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the world as we find it. It's a tool of protection, but it can also be a tool of incision to get to some truth. But along the way maybe we've lost some of what I think of as the power of straightforward emotion and earnestness and seriousness."
"By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore."
"How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again."
"I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it."
