Richard Pryor
Comedian, Actor
"All humor is rooted in pain."
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Anne Frank
Diaries Writer
"What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again"
T. E. Lawrence
Writer, Archaeologist, Military Officer
"Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day."
Dave Allen
Comedian
"Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you."
Gerard Butler
Actor
"I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart."
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"One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it."
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"HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous."
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"The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it."
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"A sense of humour is a sense of proportion."
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"It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place."
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"The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone."
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"Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant"
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"I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour."
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"According as the man is, so must you humour him."
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"Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life."
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"Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour."
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"Humour is a big part of our lives as well as our music. Making it fun is the most important thing."
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"musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves."
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"Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity."
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"Only six need be attempted."
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"Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour."
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"Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?"
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"Tod laughed. He was always able to find the humour in even the creepiest situations. I'd thought that it was an undead thing, until I became a member of the undead. Then I realized it was a Tod-thing."
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"We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour."
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"I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama."
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