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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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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It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
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My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
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I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
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But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.
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What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily... I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
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Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.
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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.
