Humor Quotes
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I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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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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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
