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Parody Quotes

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It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.
Georges Bataille

Authors on Parody Quotes: Al Yankovic Mason Cooley Ana Gasteyer Georges Bataille Bruce Campbell Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Cat Deeley Max Tundra Umberto Eco Leonard Cohen Bruce McCall Kazimir Malevich Bernard Berenson Michael Haneke Ted Rall Friedrich Nietzsche Busy Philipps Ivan Reitman Milan Kundera Tom Wolfe Jamie Lee Curtis Aldous Huxley Keith Olbermann Craig Ferguson Mort Crim Truman Capote Pat Robertson Jennifer Stone Alfie Kohn Marilyn Manson Brendan Gill Simone de Beauvoir Eric Topol
2.
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
Bernard Berenson

3.
Parody is homage gone sour.
Brendan Gill

4.
You can parody almost anything.
Bruce McCall

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Old age is life's parody.
Simone de Beauvoir

6.
I see parody as another form of comedy.
Bruce Campbell

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You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.
Leonard Cohen

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Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.
Marilyn Manson

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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
Aldous Huxley

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A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.
Kazimir Malevich

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With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.
Craig Ferguson

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One parody is worth a thousand polemics.
Jennifer Stone

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There are parodies of non-existent things.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.
Michael Haneke

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The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.
Eric Topol

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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
Pat Robertson

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For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.
Umberto Eco

18.
The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.
Mason Cooley

19.
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
Al Yankovic

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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
Ted Rall

21.
What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.
Max Tundra

22.
I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.
Busy Philipps

23.
The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.
Friedrich Nietzsche

24.
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
Al Yankovic

25.
I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.
Ivan Reitman

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All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody.
Cat Deeley

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Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.
Tom Wolfe

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I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.
Jamie Lee Curtis

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You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.
Keith Olbermann

30.
Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.
Truman Capote

31.
Is not parody the eternal lot of man?
Milan Kundera

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In education, parody is obsolete.
Alfie Kohn

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Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and I say not in the least.
Mort Crim

34.
Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
Al Yankovic

35.
The neuroses parody the virtues.
Mason Cooley

36.
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.
Ana Gasteyer

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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.
Al Yankovic