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Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.
Carl Reiner
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If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's life, I have two things to say … the red is positive and the black is negative.
Nick DiPaolo
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While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.
Jim Norton (comedian)
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Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.
Chris Hardwick
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Every black American is bilingual. We speak street vernacular and job interview.
Dave Chappelle
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I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: "You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage." Number two: "We have medication for this." And number three: "It was more than an ounce and he was less than 100 yards from the school."
Bill Engvall
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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
John Rogers
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The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.
Jerry Lewis
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
Wavy Gravy
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It is the duty of the humor of any given nation in time of high crisis to attack the catastrophe that faces it in such a manner as to cause the people to laugh at it in such a way that they cannot die before they are killed.
Lord Buckley
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But remember what drives a man; real men do what they have to do to make sure their people are taken care of, clothed, housed, and reasonably sastisfied, and if they're doing anything less than that, they're not men.
Steve Harvey
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Sure, I use the word nigger all the time. But I say niggers is holding the black people back. It don't mean black at all. In the dictionary, nigger is described as a person who is shiftless and lazy. Well, if that's the case, there must be some white niggers, too.
Redd Foxx
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Most people unfamiliar with the men in a new town might search for love until they find it. I picked out some guy on my second day in LA, who worked at the local bicycle shop, and handed my virginity to him. You can fill a tire? Sounds good to me. Let's call it a date. Needless to say he wasn't Mr. Right.
Kathy Griffin
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People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing,
Jim Belushi
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It's easy to sit on a mountaintop and tell people what to do and how to be happy. I have chosen to do that. Not because it's easy, but for a different reason, which I would reveal, if your mind was ready to handle it, which it isn't, which is also very convenient for me.
Eugene Mirman
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There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.
Michael Ian Black
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The first time we put Debbie Downer on the show, I had a giggle fit that I couldn't control, and the whole cast ended up breaking so hard we could never quite recover.
Rachel Dratch
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I'm 83, and I feel like a 20-year-old, but unfortunately there's never one around.
Milton Berle
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My whole career has been an act of revenge.
Ruby Wax
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I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter."
Totie Fields
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Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.
Judd Apatow
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If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential.
Steve Rizzo
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In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.
Allan Sherman
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Steve Rossi:
What is the difference between erotic sex and kinky sex?
Allen:
Erotic sex, you use a feather.
Rossi:
And, what about kinky sex?
Allen:
You use the whole chicken.
Marty Allen
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There are two things in life that keep me motivated, a cup of coffee and a second cup of coffee.
Craig Benzine
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