Satire Quotes
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I`ll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Lord Byron
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You can`t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you`re doing is recording it.
Art Buchwald
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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins. Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored. As a civil ri...
Isaac Hayes
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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins. Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored. As a civil ri...
Isaac Hayes
Keywords: all :: and :: are :: as :: at :: be :: begins :: beliefs :: bigotry :: but :: civil :: ends :: for :: honored :: in :: intolerance :: is :: of :: others :: people :: place :: religious :: respected :: rights :: sacred :: satire :: should :: there :: this :: time :: times :: to :: towards :: when :: worldSource: imdb.com
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I don`t try to answer any questions or preach. My personality and my opinions come through in the satire of the films, but I think of them as a snapshot of the time. I have this device, or conceit, where something happens in the world and I can say, `Ooo,...
George A. Romero
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I respect the audience`s intelligence a lot, and that`s why I don`t try to go for the lowest common denominator. -- at the New York premiere of his media satire "Bamboozled".
Spike Lee
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You know, everyone says that South Park" (1997) is satire and political satire and whatever, but really when you look at a season, there`s rarely more than a couple episodes per season that are political satire".
Trey Parker
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You know, everyone says that South Park" (1997) is satire and political satire and whatever, but really when you look at a season, there`s rarely more than a couple episodes per season that are political satire".
Trey Parker
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You know, everyone says that South Park" (1997) is satire and political satire and whatever, but really when you look at a season, there`s rarely more than a couple episodes per season that are political satire".
Trey Parker
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This is satire. I am a satirist. Modern-day society has this obsession with needing to know every ounce of angst about performers` lives, to the point that it becomes more important than whether they can perform. [On his Broadway show Martin Short: Fame B...
Martin Short
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When you look at golf films before us they`re all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can`t beat him.
Shia LaBeouf
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Though slow to develop, terrorist humor has done all of this. Political satire has been particularly valuable in challenging the seemingly lockstep wartime outlook, reminding us that even in dire times it is always prudent to question authority.
Paul Lewis
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The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.
Allison Gollust
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The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
Yahoo Serious
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Satire is what closes on Saturday night.
George Kaufman
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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
Molly Ivins
Source: brainyquote.com
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Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous
Tony Hendra
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Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
Angela Carter
Source: brainyquote.com
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People love burlesque today because it incorporates all the old-school glamour, satire and highlights the female form -- it`s something that many women can actually see themselves doing.
Anne E. Schwartz
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It seems like there`s a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it`s weird. There`s people who just don`t understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you`re condoning it, saying this is the way to live.
Mike Judge
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It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
Dario Fo
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If you`re going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can`t be politically correct when you do that.
John Cusack
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I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.
Tracey Ullman
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I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.
John Cusack
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Hollywood is horrible... it`s beyond satire.
Yahoo Serious
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Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
Carroll O`Connor
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A sitcom isn`t usually the right tool for satire.
Chris Morris
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You can`t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you`re doing is recording it.
Art Buchwald
