Thomas Sowell Quotes
You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
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Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
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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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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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I try to cope with everything through humor.
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The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
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Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.
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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'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.
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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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If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
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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.
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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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Love is the feeling of everything I write and it's like my driving force for everything.
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This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.
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Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.
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Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.
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You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.
