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Humor Quotes
"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."
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"It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them."
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"Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie."
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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."
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"Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles."
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"Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
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"Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you."
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"Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing."
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"It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?"
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"Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed."
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"Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs."
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"That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them."
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"Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing."
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"Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there."
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"There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it."
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"At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic."
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"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles."
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"Humor can be one of our best survival tools."
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"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt."
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"I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still."
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"The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense."
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"I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money."
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"Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly."
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"I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor."
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"Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about."
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"Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all."
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"A floating leaf has more to boast about than a sinking ship."
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"Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat."
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"I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that."
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