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Russell Howard Comedian, Actor
Humor

"Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!"

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Humor

"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Humor

"If drumsticks are for playing drums, you would think that breadsticks would be for playing bread, wouldn't you? "Would you like some breadsticks?" "No, thank you, I don't play bread. I play drums. Perhaps I'll have a drum roll.""

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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host
Humor

"I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like “shut up, shut up, shut upblah blah blah blah blaaaaah."

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Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
Humor

"Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you."

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Thornton Wilder Playwright, Novelist, Poet
Humor

"A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure."

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