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Chris Rock Comedian, Actor, Writer
Humor

"Remember when we was young, everybody used to have these arguments about who's better, Michael Jackson or Prince? Prince won!"

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Chris Rock Comedian, Actor, Writer
Humor

"You know those guys that go to the strip club at the daytime? If you're at a strip club, and the sun is out, you got some problems!"

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Chris Rock Comedian, Actor, Writer
Humor

"I ain't shootin' nobody. So call me a faggot! When the war's over, I'll be the faggot with two legs, thank you!"

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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
Humor

"According to a brand new report, alcohol abuse in Ireland is on the rise. Mainly because the guy who didn't drink now does."

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
Humor

"She had been critical of his new torch song, "A Side Order of Heartache, Please," suggesting it could be used as a good way to break in their new paper shredder."

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal."

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Scott Adams Cartoonist
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"As a fan, I'm distraught, but as a cartoonist looking at new vacant spaces in 2400 newspapers, well, behind me, my cats are dancing a conga line."

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Rita Mae Brown Author, Activist
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"I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel."

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