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I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron. -- Harold Bloom
I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron. -- Joe Pantoliano
Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath. -- Gail Sheehy
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.' -- Johnny Depp
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
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have. -- John C. Maxwell
And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me. -- Patricia Clarkson
In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron. -- Christian Bale
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others. -- John Perry Barlow
An honest politician is an oxymoron. -- Mark Twain
The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron. -- George Will
I find nothing more depressing than optimism. -- Paul Fussell
That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973. -- Jon Stewart
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to. -- Banksy
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial. -- George Will
Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology. -- Jeremy Rifkin
The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists. -- Thom S. Rainer
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
For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it. -- Etgar Keret
The term congressional hearing is an oxymoron. No congressional hearing is ever called to gather information. Rather, it is an exercise designed strictly for posturing, by people who have already made up their minds, looking for ammunition to support their positions. -- Jack McDevitt
I'm a city boy by nature - that's a big-ass oxymoron - but I do appreciate nature to the fullest because they say if you wanna see God just look around. We can't make this, it's all creation, so I appreciate that. -- Chali 2na
The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to remember. Unfortunately, if it's easy to remember, it's something nonrandom like 'Susan.' And if it's random, like 'r7U2*Qnp,' then it's not easy to remember. -- Bruce Schneier
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 said. 'Oh--sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.' The poor devil didn't know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise. -- Barbara Mertz
I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron. -- Barbara Park
Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore. -- Martha Plimpton
To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving. -- Jamie Wyeth
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
Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all still be wearing togas. -- Russell Smith
The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together. -- Kelis
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 living being that is the horse. -- Jane Smiley
Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three. -- Mariella Frostrup
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 this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it. -- Chris Cuomo
You know, my degrees are in computer engineering. I spent a lot of time in the tech industry. And I like to say that I don't invest in tech because I spent time in it. And I saw firsthand that the durability of technology moats is many times an oxymoron. -- Mohnish Pabrai
Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done. -- Monica Johnson
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, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. -- Grace Slick
Habits & Contradictions' is the prequel to 'Setbacks.' I had all these titles already in my head before I even dropped 'em. Like 'Setbacks,' I knew that was gone be the first one; I knew 'Habits & Contradictions.' I knew 'Oxymoron.' I got two more albums that I already have the title to it, and I know how I'ma play the theme off of it. -- Schoolboy Q
Bad leadership is an oxymoron. -- Joseph C. Rost
A cautious creative is an oxymoron. -- George Lois
'Realistic dreamer' is not an oxymoron. -- Vanna Bonta
Wearing: shorts + a jersey = a visual oxymoron. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A German sense of humor is an oxymoron. -- Joan Rivers
Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history. -- James Patterson
I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron. -- Barbara Park
An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford? -- Johnny Carson
A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim." -- Hendrik Hertzberg
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency. -- Wilson Follett
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. -- Walter Darby Bannard
instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions. -- Ellen Goodman
I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics. -- Allen W. Wood
For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron. -- Judith Plaskow
I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below. -- Madeleine Albright
In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside. -- Ciore Taylor
So when my critics say that Sassy is only for alienated teenagers, I feel like responding, 'Well, isn't an unalienated teenager the biggest oxymoron?' -- Jane Pratt
An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life. -- Zygmunt Bauman
What is conditional love? Conditional love is an oxymoron. Conditional love is an imposter of love. Conditional love is something other than love, because you cannot conditionalize the un-conditional. -- Donald L. Hicks
I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment. -- Paul Krassner
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs. -- Michael Kinsley
The notion of children being "kindergarten ready" is a bizarre oxymoron. It's like saying you have to know how to play the piano before you can learn how to play the piano. -- Peter Campbell
As I see it, a lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron; there is no such thing. To put it plainly, churchgoers who are 'lukewarm' are not Christians. We will not see them in heaven. -- Francis Chan
Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron. -- Peter Thiel

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