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"Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's something you can't control, and I don't like things I can't control. I worked too hard to have it taken away for something stupid. I ain't gonna be laughed at the way I used to laugh at those crackheads."
"Those who laugh often never grow old."
"I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames."
"It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy."
"HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous."
"We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence."
"By the age of six or seven, I was already doing voices and faces, making my friends and my mother laugh."
"Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead."
"I'll teach you to laugh at something that's funny!"
"Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside."
"I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact."
"It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun"
"Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause."
"Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed."
"Tape the sound of friends laughing together. Save it for a rainy day."
"Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!"
"Flowers are the earth laughing."
"There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that."
"I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it comes to their community. You can't laugh at everyone else and then not laugh at yourself. You shouldn't be at my show if you can't laugh at yourself."
"Even when you tear its petals off one after another, the rose keeps laughing and doesn’t bend in pain. “Why should I be afflicted because of a thorn? It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh.” Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain."
