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Tag Name "Irreverence" (20)

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Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.
L. Lionel Kendrick
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Irreverence is our only sacred cow.
Paul Krassner
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Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom.
Simon Schama
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Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.
Mary Ruefle
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We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.
Pierre Boulez
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There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.
Stan Getz
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In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.
Vinod Khosla
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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan
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Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and consciousblasphemy or irreverence but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?
Henry David Thoreau
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True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
Mark Twain
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In today's world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies on political and public apathy, Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.
Nomi Prins
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Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.
Tom Lehrer
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I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.
William S. Burroughs
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Ambrose Bierce
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However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong
Boyd K. Packer
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for me the most fun of my career is to bring a little bit of irreverence to characters. And, you know, I don't think that the producers were expecting me to be as irreverent as I am.
Dean Winters
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Jacob Bronowski
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A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.
Mark Twain