Cass McCombs Quotes
You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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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.
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Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.
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We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
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I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
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I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.
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Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
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An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.....
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Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.
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Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
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It's so hard to get started creatively - it's really hard to get those first ideas out. You just have to do it over and over again, and hopefully better ones start to come. Also, anytime a good idea comes up, for a long time I think, "Oh, my God, that was so lucky that I thought of that idea, whew, I hope that happens again." The more you work at it, the more it happens, but it still feels lucky.
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Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
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I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
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Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.
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You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.
