Joke Quotes
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If there`s one thing I know it`s God does love a good joke.
Hugh Elliott
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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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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Aaron Rich
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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Aaron Rich
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Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other hand, laughs with demonic mirth, is possessed of a sardonic wit, and his eyes hold a glint of wicked bemusement. The farthest God, in his popul...
Diane LaVey
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West
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Housekeeping ain`t no joke
Louisa May Alcott
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H.G. Wells
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I`ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost
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A joke is a very serious thing
Winston Churchill
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Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Will Rogers
Keywords: and :: are :: as :: changing :: comedians :: everything :: is :: joke :: people :: politicians :: seriously :: taking :: the :: theirSubject: Change Quotes :: Politicians QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George Orwell
Keywords: custard :: dirty :: every :: funny :: is :: joke :: mental :: of :: pie :: rebellion :: sort :: subversive :: ultimately :: whateverSubject: Jokes QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George Orwell
Keywords: custard :: dirty :: every :: funny :: is :: joke :: mental :: of :: pie :: rebellion :: sort :: subversive :: ultimately :: whateverSubject: Jokes QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded
George Orwell
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Arthur Miller
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Every morning I`m facing myself in the mirror. It doesn`t change anything finding out I`m supposed to be a sex symbol. It`s like a joke. My mom is always saying that to me. She`s like, `A sex symbol? You, my son? Oh, please. Look at your nose!`
Vincent Perez
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I always think it`s a bit of a joke when I get described as an activist. Really, for two or three months of my year I organise stuff, but I`m not as involved as I used to be.
Sarah Polley
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I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.
Simon Pegg
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Well it doesn`t exactly have a ring to it, does it? It`s more the sort of name you`d give to your goldfish for a joke. [about his first name]
Colin Firth
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[on his ex-wife, Joan Crawford] "She`s like that old joke about Philadelphia: First prize, 4 years with Joan. Second prize, 8 years with her."
Franchot Tone
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I never told a joke in my life.
Andy Kaufman
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On playing the Riddler in "Batman" (1966): "When I was first approached to play the Riddler, I thought it was a joke. Then I discovered the show had a good script and agreed to do the role.... Now I am in love with the character. I developed the Riddler`s...
Frank Gorshin
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Everything was a joke [in my family]. If you got a whippin`, when you got back to the table, you heard nine other people doing impressions of your screaming.
Keenen Wayans
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I went to a place called the Berkley Film Institute for a summer program with a grade school friend of mine, and we just thought it was a joke. It was very impressionist, very Berkley. There were all these people who were there to communicate and change t...
David Fincher
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The greatest thing that ever happened to me in terms of my acting was the audition for To Live and Die in L.A. After I read, William Friedkin put down the script and said, `You got the part.` I really thought it was a joke. I went back to my hotel room an...
William Petersen
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I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.
Dave Chappelle
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I`m a macho guy. It`s a joke. I feel very well in my world today, in my relationship with women.
Olivier Martinez
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It is all that an actress can hope for. The experience was very organic. I was able to be creative. In comedies, you go for the joke, and embellish. Action films are about action. They`re not about performances.
Gabrielle Union
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In a 1986 interview, he explained the origin of his "respect" trademark: "I had this joke: `I played hide and seek; they wouldn`t even look for me.` To make it work better, you look for something to put in front of it: I was so poor, I was so dumb, so thi...
Rodney Dangerfield
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Silliness framed in intelligence. Even when it`s stupid, you know intelligent people are doing it and that makes it a different joke. Stupid comedy over here [in America] is just plain stupid. It`s moronic and I don`t find it funny at all. - when asked to...
Christopher Guest
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