501 private quotes tagged humor

“Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.” — Allen Klein

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“Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.” — Robert Morgan

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“Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.” — Terrence Howard

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“My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight,' although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.” — Melissa Rosenberg

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“Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.” — Colin Quinn

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“For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.” — Colin Quinn

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“I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.” — Paula Poundstone

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“Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.” — Suzanne Fields

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“Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.” — Selma Blair

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“The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.” — Robertson Davies

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“I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.” — Katie Price

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“I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.” — Michelle Pfeiffer

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“When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.” — Erin Morgenstern

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“I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.” — Walter Isaacson

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“Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.” — Ted Rall

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“It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.” — Michelle Williams

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“Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.” — Joshua Foer

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“The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.” — Lisa Loeb

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“You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.” — Harvey Pekar

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“I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?” — Mayer Hawthorne

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“My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.” — Tracy Morgan

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“To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.” — Mike Mills

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“As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.” — Priscilla Presley

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“My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.” — John Hodgman

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“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” — Max Eastman

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