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" It's funny: your happiness is contingent on a bigger picture besides just yourself. "
Debra Granik
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" The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life. "
Seann William Scott
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" We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. "
Louis Aragon
Know
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" There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast. "
J. Michael Straczynski
Want
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" You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people. "
Donald Trump
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" Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube. "
Joan Rivers
Life Is Hard
Funny
Tough
" One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening. "
Franklin P. Jones
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You
Yourself
" During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one. "
Jerry Stiller
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Depression
People
" I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society. "
Johnny Depp
Brain
Society
Me
" I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican. "
Marion Barry
Funny
Republican
Slavery
" I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place. "
Vera Farmiga
Sense Of Humor
Funny
Humor
" I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights. "
Jay London
Tonight
Watching
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" All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead. "
Will Ferrell
You
People
Hope
" Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics, and I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me. "
George Harrison
Me
Funny
Together
" If you're OK with being clumsy, it's funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are going to laugh at you. "
Leo Howard
Funny
Laugh
People
" We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why. "
Daniel Dennett
Jokes
Funny
Cute
" I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies. "
Kristen Stewart
Work
Funny
Talent
" Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands. "
Jerry Lewis
Hands
Man
Funny
" I grew up in a funny way. "
Gordon Ramsay
Way
Up
Funny Way
" In the U.K., working-class lives are depicted with the characters' humour, but in the U.S., people with difficulties are often depicted with pious or simply dreary lives. "
Debra Granik
" I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. "
Gloria Steinem
Man
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Career
" I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up. I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin. So I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. "
Kurt Fuller
Growing
Growing Up
Humor
" When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say. "
Henny Youngman
Funny
Say
God
" Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. "
E. B. White
Facts
Funny
Great
" There's a difference between being a comic and a comedian. A comic is a guy who says funny things, and a comedian is a guy who says things funny, and he has a style and point of view that will last much longer. "
Milton Berle
Style
Will
Point Of View
" Being nice can be funny. A lot of my jokes are like, 'Let me take a bad situation and try to put the best spin on it.' "
Ron Funches
Funny
Me
Nice
" Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Your
Temptation
May
" We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny. "
J. K. Rowling
You
Rich
Know
" Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. "
Lenny Bruce
Beach
Where
Miami
" My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious. "
Bill Burr
Observe
Kind
Funny
" One man is as good as another until he has written a book. "
Benjamin Jowett
Man
He
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