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" I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening. "

Melissa Etheridge

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" A day without laughter is a day wasted. "

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" It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard. "

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" Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. "

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" What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy! "

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" What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see. "

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" I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones. "

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" Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy. "

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" My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics. "

" The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood. "

" Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser. "

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" When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real. "

" Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. "

" Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension. "

" Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. "

" I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor. "

" In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. "

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" You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain. "

" There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also. "

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" I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.' "

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" Nothing like a little judicious levity. "

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" When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that. "

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" Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel. "

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