Zero Mostel Quotes

The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.

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• When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Person
  • Being
  • Laughter

• Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Freedom

• If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Love
  • Laughter
  • For Him

• I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things outside of the band. I'm not going to use the cliche that those outlets bring us back fresh and with new ideas, but what I will say is that it keeps us all feeling free - and that creative freedom is a very positive thing.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Love
  • Freedom

• I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Welcome

• President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Freedom
  • Support
  • Government

• My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Time
  • Music
  • Family

• Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • American
  • Freedom
  • System

• I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Page

• Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Birth

• Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • World
  • America
  • Night

• Ay, call it holy ground,The soil where first they trod;They have left unstained what there they found -Freedom to whorship God.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • God
  • Freedom

• The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Freedom
  • Failure
  • Sex

• His nation of liberty was founded on the backs of Negro slaves and at the cost of exterminating the aborigines. As far as I can tell, the Yankee’s idea of freedom is his right to carry a pistol with which he may shoot strangers in the street.

  

  Kage Baker
  • May
  • Freedom

• If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist-in economic, political, scientific and all the other kinds of struggles as well as the military-then the peril to freedom will continue to rise.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Political
  • Free
  • Freedom

• One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into laughter when someone says: this is true, this is real.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Real
  • May
  • True

• I heard the prophet Joseph Smith say the time would come when this nation would so far depart from its original purity, its glory, and its love for freedom and its protection of civil rights and religious rights, that the Constitution of our country would hang as it were by a thread. He said, also, that this people, the sons of Zion, would rise up and save the Constitution and bear it off triumphantly.

  

  Eliza R. Snow
  • Freedom
  • Rights
  • Protection

• God can dream a bigger dream for you then you could ever dream for yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • God
  • Dream
  • Yourself

• You can be labelled but if it doesn't speak to people then it won't work. The social media and online has been really important. Fans are really smart too: they don't want to hear something manufactured or something that has too much marketing behind it.

  

  Mac Miller
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.

  

  Zero Mostel
  • Freedom
  • Laughter
  • Volume