Larry David Quotes
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
Patrick Ness -
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken -
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith Sitwell -
It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
Larry Flynt -
A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.
Sam Worthington
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What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.
Oscar Isaac -
My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
Vanessa Bayer -
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln -
We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special.
Larry the Cable Guy -
The less I talk about being black, the better.
Idris Elba -
I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder -
I like children - fried.
W. C. Fields -
I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.
Imelda May -
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 -
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
Eddie Izzard
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Family is funny, and so it was not an unnatural thing for me, growing up, not to know anything about my dad or about the Vance side of our family.
Courtney B. Vance -
I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
Rachel Stevens -
'Guitar Hero' was much more about us not innovating in a way that was appealing to audiences. It's not about oversaturating the market.
Bobby Kotick -
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
Rumi -
There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.
Larry David