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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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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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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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
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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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My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise.
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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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I love New Zealand. Every time I'm in New Zealand someone makes a joke about it being mostly sheep, which I think is unfair, because it's mostly nice people. It's mostly nice people and really wonderful scenery.
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We used to have two album name columns for Hysteria. There wasn't much in the 'serious' column. Animal Instincts is the only one I can remember. Then there was the 'joke' column. Most of the titles in that one were takeoffs on Pyromania, like Paranoia. One of those was Hysteria. As I remember it, Rick came up with that one. He meant it as a joke, but it caught us all in a serious moment and, for some reason, it stuck. Peter Mensch liked it, Joe said, 'Well, it's alright,' and I said, 'I don't mind.' So it stuck. Nobody objected to it, anyway.
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I think cinema is good for incarnating the parts of the mind that you cannot explain.”
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I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.
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And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know there is ego, ego will drop out.
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You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.
