Eugene Ionesco Quotes
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Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.
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Most jokes state a bitter truth.
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We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes.
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People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environment, when they were young, where jokes were at a premium, or at least considered important to a life. My parents always listened to the comedy radio shows, we went to the comedy movies, and my parents appreciated comedy. So kids listen and follow what their parents like.
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'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person.
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I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?
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The older you get, the funnier fart jokes are.
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If you let go of fart jokes, you've let go of a piece of humanity.
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You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.
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I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'
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It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.
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I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.
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... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
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I'm infamous, a joke. It doesn't make me feel good, because I'm a genuine person, but I don't let it get to me, because I am who I am.
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There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.
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I often fake my death and then just show up at people's houses. They say 'that's a good one Thom' but I know maybe they don't really think it's a funny joke.
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I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one...
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You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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That's always the question. How to defend yourself without being nasty.
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The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others.
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What social media has done - Facebook, Twitter - is show the audience. I don't have an audience. When I make my work, it just goes out into the ether. I have a thick skin and it just brings me down to earth, you know, to realize how out-there and far away and paltry the audience is that gets what I'm saying. It's depressing if I let it get to me. And it's the same with hanging a show, the way it's put up, like, three stories high and you can't read a single word.
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A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
