humor
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘humor’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.” -Ted Rall
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“Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.” -Andrew Stanton
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“It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I’m still looking for that.” -Michelle Williams
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“The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.” -Lisa Loeb
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“You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they’ve got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you’ll ever see on TV.” -Harvey Pekar
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“I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What’s life without a sense of humor?” -Mayer Hawthorne
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“My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.” -Tracy Morgan
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“As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.” -Priscilla Presley
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“My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I’m talking about or not.” -John Hodgman
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“If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.” -Teri Garr
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“The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.” -Dan Castellaneta
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“My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for ‘Twilight,’ although I got some in there. That was fun! There’s just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.” -Melissa Rosenberg
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“Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.” -Allen Klein
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“I used to watch ‘The Waltons’ and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.” -Paula Poundstone
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“I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other…
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“Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.” -Robert Morgan
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“Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.” -Terrence Howard
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“For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they’re friends. We’re the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.” -Colin Quinn
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“Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.” -Suzanne Fields
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“Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It’s a pretty easy audience, and that’s been around for ages.” -Selma Blair
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“I don’t happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don’t know what’s funny about a character… This happens to be a feature of my life generally.” -Wallace Shawn
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“People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.” -Carmen Electra
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“If golf wasn’t enjoyable and there wasn’t a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.” -Ray Romano
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“You see, that’s another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.” -Liza Minnelli
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“People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.” -Lorna Luft
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“I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.” -Mike Epps
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“Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.” -Shel Silverstein
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“As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.” -David Alan Grier
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“I don’t know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there’s a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That’s kind of regrettable.” -Bob Newhart
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“I’ll do humor about myself, I’ll poke fun and everything, but that’s me and I can do it to me. I think it’s cruel to do it to somebody else.” -Delta Burke
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“I love Sell Out, I think it’s great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It’s got humor, great songs, irony.” -Roger Daltrey
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“I’m sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I’ve never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.” -Ayelet Waldman
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“I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.” -Lawrence Kasdan
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“I get asked, ‘How can you have such failures in your films?’ Well, what else is life about? There’s some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.” -Alexander Payne
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“I can’t not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.” -Greg Kinnear
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“Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we’re ‘dead earnest,’ humor is the only thing that is dead.” -Flip Wilson
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“The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.” -William Temple
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“I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.” -Rachael Ray
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“I like being a Baha’i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.” -Rainn Wilson
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“Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.” -Thomas Browne
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“Women’s humor seems to be a little more supportive. It’s just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I’m going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a…
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“Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.” -Carl Hiaasen
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“Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.” -Hattie McDaniel
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“Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn’t have a sense of humor.” -Martin Sheen
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“Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.” -Cathy Guisewite
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“God has a most wicked sense of humor.” -Maureen O’Hara
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“There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.” -Sinclair Lewis
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“I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.” -Zac Efron
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“If you’re that hypersensitive about color and don’t have a sense of humor, don’t marry out of your race.” -Laura Schlessinger
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“When I look at a lot of older stuff that I’ve written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.” -David Sedaris
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“Both conservatives and liberals watch ‘Parks and Recreation,’ and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. ‘SNL’ was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you’re talking about.” -Amy Poehler
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“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself.” -Clifton Fadiman
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“I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.” -William Gilmore Simms
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“In the ‘Hurt Locker’ there’s a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.” -Jeremy Renner
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“The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.” -Umberto Eco
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“It’s funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They’re usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.” -Sloane Crosley
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“I realized women and humor were linked very closely.” -Craig Ferguson
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“Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.” -Trey Parker
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“My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.” -Dane Cook
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“People with no humor, they’re outta my life.” -Patti LaBelle
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“Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality.” -Kyle Chandler
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“You know, I’m Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.” -Steve Irwin
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“I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.” -John Zorn
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“If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.” -Kate Beckinsale
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“We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.” -Bil Keane
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“Well, darkness with humor… I’m not an extremely suicidal or sad person.” -Peter Steele
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“I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.” -Betty White
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“You’ve got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.” -Lance Bass
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“I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.” -Horatio Nelson
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“I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.” -Antonio Banderas
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“There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl’s sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system it could be a lot of different things.” -Jensen Ackles
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“When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it’s just wonderful.” -Francois Truffaut
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“Whether it’s viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I’m consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the ‘Delete’ option and restraining orders were invented.” -Richard Roeper
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“My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.” -Maurice Sendak
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“I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.” -Rod Stewart
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“People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I’m a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.” -Gary Oldman
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“If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.” -William Howard Taft
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“You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give ’em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don’t like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot’s mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.”…
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“Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom – it doesn’t have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations – but that doesn’t explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.” -James Wolcott
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“Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he’s been in so long that it just doesn’t matter, and he’s not running for president. But it’s just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you’re just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.” -Mark Russell
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“The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I’m just gonna tell her, ‘Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they’ll have to hire you, they can’t really fire you, and you don’t have to…
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“My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.” -Bret Michaels
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“I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.” -Dean Koontz
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“Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren’t about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.” -Ice Cube
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“A lot of stars don’t have a sense of humor.” -Kathy Griffin
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“It’s good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.” -Margaret Cho
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“We can’t understand when we’re pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time – like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.” -Anne Lamott
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“It’s easier to sit there and say you don’t like feminists because they don’t have a sense of humor.” -Joan Jett
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“I’ve met a lot of people who’ve lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.” -Louis C. K.
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“I don’t understand how somebody wouldn’t have a sense of humor about themselves.” -John Malkovich
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“There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.” -David Duchovny
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“What we’re doing is fun – if you have any sense of humor at all!” -Calvin Klein
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“From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.” -Samuel Richardson
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“Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.” -Robert Orben
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“Keep your sense of humor, my friend if you don’t have a sense of humor it just isn’t funny anymore.” -Wavy Gravy
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“Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?” -Dick Clark
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“Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.” -Frank Muir
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“And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.” -Bobby Knight
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“An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.” -Constance Rourke
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“Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.” -Romain Gary
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“Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.” -Malcolm Muggeridge
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“I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions… the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.” -Colin Firth
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“Have a sense of humor about life – you will need it. And be courteous.” -Peter Jennings
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“I am often the brunt of my own humor.” -Charles R. Swindoll
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“And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.” -Paul McCartney
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“I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.” -Victoria Beckham
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“OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn’t be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it’s true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.” -Wentworth Miller
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“If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.” -Paul Simon
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“A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?” -Bob Hope
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“Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there’s humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.” -David Lynch
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“There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.” -Rita Rudner
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“Down the road, I’ll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.” -Alanis Morissette
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“I realize that humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.” -Anne Wilson Schaef
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“Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.” -Jimmy Buffett
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“I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.” -Michael J. Fox
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“Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.” -William Makepeace Thackeray
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“Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me – just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.” -Dee Dee Myers
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“A sense of humor is great – it goes a long, long way in a marriage.” -Chris Rock
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“I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.” -Erma Bombeck
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“Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.” -Eminem
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“Don’t wish me happiness – I don’t expect to be happy it’s gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor – I will need them all.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“I think I have always had a little humor.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” -Grenville Kleiser
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“Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom.” -Tim Allen
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“Humor has been the balm of my life, but it’s been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.” -Lana Turner
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“I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.” -Suzanne Vega
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“Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.” -Jami Gertz
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“Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don’t judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.” -Madonna Ciccone
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“The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.” -Lou Holtz
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“Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile.” -J. B. Priestley
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“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.” -Bill Cosby
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“Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.” -Agnes Repplier
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“The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.” -Peter De Vries
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“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.” -Edward Albee
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“There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.” -Robert Benchley
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“The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.” -Jacob August Riis
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“Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.” -Thomas W. Higginson
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“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.” -Frank A. Clark
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“Puns are a form of humor with words.” -Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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“This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.” -Lin Yutang
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“Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.” -Irvin S. Cobb
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“Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself.” -Clifton Paul Fadiman
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“A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.” -Doug Larson
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“Humor is something that thrives between man’s aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.” -Victor Borge
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“If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.” -Jennifer Jones
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“A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.” -Chevy Chase
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“Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.” -Simon Wiesenthal
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“Humor is everywhere, in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.” -Bill Nye
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“All I know about humor is that I don’t know anything about it.” -Fred Allen
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“Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.” -Leo Rosten
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“Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.” -Sid Caesar
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“Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.” -Steven Wright
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“Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.” -W. C. Fields
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“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.” -William Arthur Ward
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“My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.” -Emo Philips
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“A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.” -Mignon McLaughlin
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“Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.” -Langston Hughes
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“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.” -Christopher Morley
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“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.” -Peter Ustinov
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“Humor is just another defense against the universe.” -Mel Brooks
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“A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.” -Hugh Sidey
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