Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
Natasha Leggero
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It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
Octavia Spencer
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
T. J. Miller
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A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.
P. J. O'Rourke
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For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's revolting to watch. I don't enjoy it. But when it's a Tarantino film, I'm lining up outside the door to see it, and I'm expecting to see something really crazy, a lot of blood, and for it to be funny.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.
Caitlin Hale
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
Edmund Hillary
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If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.
Ted Deutch
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson
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It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
Majandra Delfino
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I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!
Becky G
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Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.
Lauren London
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The best thing for the inside of a man, is the outside of a horse.
R. F. Delderfield
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The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Peter Abelard
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The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.
Carlos Mesa
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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Adlai E. Stevenson
