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John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent. -- Brenda Lee
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. -- Norman Mailer
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me. -- Horace
Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists. -- Jack Herer
I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions. -- Esai Morales
The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too. -- Carine Roitfeld
It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye. -- Bob Costas
My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent. -- Ed Helms
I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming. -- Malcolm Mclaren
Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ. -- Tim LaHaye
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic. -- Salman Rushdie
I wanted to make youthful, irreverent anthems. Parents might not get it, but kids would. -- Kesha
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. -- Richard P. Feynman
I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great. -- Brian Greene
I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get. -- Adam DeVine
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current. -- Benjamin Walker
On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message. -- Stephen Schwartz
People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care. -- Shane Smith
I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women. -- Kesha
The only movie I can watch on a loop, over and over, is 'Help', the Beatles movie. It's so funny and irreverent and great. -- Emma Stone
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. -- Mark Twain
Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. -- Alice Walker
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation. -- Lincoln Steffens
Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny. -- Jim Gaffigan
I'm kind of desperately looking for those things that will... you know, sort of show my wilder side, in a way, my much more irreverent, badly behaved side. -- Rosamund Pike
God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance. -- C. S. Lewis
In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at one level or another the entire panorama of modern India....Energetic and eventful. -- M. G. Vassanji
When I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they used back then, but they had a hipster sensibility. They were a little irreverent. -- John Ridley
I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man. -- Kesha
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change. -- Camille Paglia
To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned. -- Clarence Darrow
I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me -- Abraham Lincoln
I think I definitely want to blame my parents on this one. One of the things about having a minister for a father, you do tend to develop an irreverent streak. Kinda goes with the territory. And Dad was as bad as I am, really . . -- Matt Ruff
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me. -- Jane Campion
As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary. -- Dane Cook
I'm a happy guy. I like to joke around. I'm irreverent. I love my family; I love my son. I was very happy with and proud of the birth of my son. I grew up a lot after he was born. I'm just an easy and happy guy. -- Neymar
I don't plan [my recordings], I really don't. It's so spontaneous I wish all rock lovers and rock journalist could witness a Ted Nugent recording session. It is so primal, it's like idiot kids in the garage with their first loud amplifiers, its intoxicating, it is irreverent, it is uninhibited. -- Ted Nugent
The real work of this life is not what we do every day from 9-5...The real work is to be passionate, be holy, be wild, be irreverent, to laugh and cry until you awaken the sleeping spirits, until the ground of your being cleaves and the universe comes flooding in. -- Geneen Roth
As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real. -- RuPaul
On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before? -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers. -- W. P. Kinsella
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. -- Richard P. Feynman
I guess the tone of jokes is often, at best, irreverent, but it always comes from a place of deep love. -- John Oliver
One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious. -- J. I. Packer
God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it. -- George MacDonald
I'm irreverent, I'm not politically correct, and I feel that I'm protected in my private life because I live a very public private life. -- Andrew Breitbart
I'm pretty irreverent. There is a lot of need to find humour in life. Although I'd never be as disrespectful to laugh at someone's expense. -- Michael Bolton
When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher. -- Joy Harjo
He could be so charming and irreverent and witty, and then-bam!-a switch flipped and he reverted right back to the cocky asshole everyone reported him to be. -- Lauren Weisberger
I definitely think women are running it right now. We are not afraid to speak our minds. It's exciting because that's what I stand for, for people to be irreverent and to be themselves. -- Kesha

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