Oxymoron Quotes

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Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000… — Jon Stewart
I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what… — Chris Cuomo
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. — Walter Darby Bannard
I find nothing more depressing than optimism. — Paul Fussell
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.' — Johnny Depp
The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are… — Alan Dershowitz
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron. — Eliza Dushku
Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore. — Martha Plimpton
Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath. — Gail Sheehy
I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable… — Jane Smiley
'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime,… — Grace Slick
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to. — Banksy
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that… — A. J. Jacobs
You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work. — James Patterson
It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called an oxymoron,' Ramses… — Barbara Mertz
Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose… — Ted Dekker
An honest politician is an oxymoron. — Mark Twain
Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history. — James Patterson
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. — John Perry Barlow
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you. — Pat Roberts

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