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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
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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
Bernard Berenson
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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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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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Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
Al Yankovic
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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
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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
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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
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The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.
Mason Cooley
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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
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What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.
Max Tundra
28.
I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.
Busy Philipps
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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
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I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.
Ivan Reitman
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My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
Al Yankovic
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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
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Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.
Truman Capote