Abe Burrows Quotes
Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.
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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.
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You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.
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Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.
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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.
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I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... surround sound is amazing... The music comes alive and is so vibrant - it's unlike anything you've ever heard before!
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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.
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With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
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As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.
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Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
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Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.
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I tried out for 'Jeopardy' once, when they came to Cleveland, but I didn't make it.
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been so many movements and ideas struggling to attract our attention. Added to this, the Western world is swamped by material goods and the Western mind is dominated by the goal of material success. In all this confusion, Zen stands out as a voice of sanity. It represents a different way of seeing the world, one based upon the rediscovery of who we really are and have always been, through revealing to us our true nature.
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Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.
