Joke Quotes
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The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
Norm MacDonald
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I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and have some fun.
Patrick Kane
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There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
Adam McKay
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Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's being in a restaurant and hearing someone say, Everyone's got their tale of woe, and then turning around and saying, Unfortunately, in life, there's more woe than tail.
Jack Roy
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Desegregation is a joke.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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I think its natural if youre doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.
Judy Greer
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We are a very united group. We like to have fun, we like to joke around.
Sam Brown
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The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we with Andrew Ridgeley were two guys really making asses of ourselves.
George Michael
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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
Robert Frost
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Truly, the world was a comedy of errors, and she was the butt of the joke.
Carole Nelson Douglas
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There are things that I won't joke about, but it's not because I don't think they're funny or they can't be made funny. It's just that they don't fit my particular skill set.
Brad Williams
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Maya Angelou
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Someone once told me a joke," he said. "I'd like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.' I made a decision to fight for my friend in prison. It was a deliberate decision. It isn't the only way-it's just something I decided.
Edeet Ravel
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Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.
Michael De Luca
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In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I say things like "I want to build a machine that can be proud of me," that's not just a joke.
W. Daniel Hillis
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Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That’s just a joke.
Bono U2
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In Beijing, the joke among hacks is that, after the drive in from the airport, you are ready to write a column; after a month, you feel the stirrings of an idea-book; but after a year, you struggle to write anything at all, because you've finally discovered just how much you don't know.
Evan Osnos
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I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
John Graham Mellor The 101ers
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If I make a joke about black people or Asian people or whatever, and then an Asian comes up to me afterwards and says, "That joke offended me," I'm still more or less not going to listen, but at least it makes sense, like I said something that was about them.
Brad Williams
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I started over again with an image: Nothing goes right. Then when The Godfather came out, all I heard was, Show respect. With me, you show respect. So I changed the image to I don't get no respect. I tried it out in Greenwich Village. I remember the first joke I told: Even as a kid, I'd play hide and seek and the other kids wouldn't even look for me. The people laughed. After the show, they started saying to me, Me, too - I don't get no respect. I figured, let's try it again.
Jack Roy
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Multiculturalism is a white people joke.
Ntozake Shange