I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.
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I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.
If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.
The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.
You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love life.
Those who laugh often never grow old.
A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.
The voice gets to the soul of a person more than any other instrument. Because it's the voice. It sings talks, it cries, it laughs, it squeals, it barks, it shouts it whispers, There is no other instrument that can do that. We're born with it.
I learned that money can be a lot of things,It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can be like an energy, fueled by the desire, will, creative interest, need to laugh, of large groups of people. And it can be shuffled and pushed around and pooled together to fuel a common interest, jokes about garbage, penises and parenthood.
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.
You have to able to make fun of yourself. Don't take things too seriously and when people make fun of you, laugh at it.
You realize the bad guy isn't wearing a black cape or easy to spot; he's funny, makes you laugh, and has perfect hair.
I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.
Flowers are the earth laughing.
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