"We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane."
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"The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light."
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"I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today."
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"Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature."
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"In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe."
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"Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength."
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"If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa."
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"I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out."
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"If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved."
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"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."
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"Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter."
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"George: 'Ringo would always say grammmatically incorrect phrases and we'd all laugh. I remember when we were driving back to Liverpool from Luton up the M1 motorway in Ringo's Zephyr, and the car's bonnet hadn't been latched properly. The wind got under it and blew it up in front of the windscreen. We were all shouting, 'Aaaargh!' and Ringo calmly said, 'Don't worry, I'll soon have you back in your safely-beds."
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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."
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"Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality"
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"I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater."
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"You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same."
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"Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise"
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"Here's to opening and upward... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing."
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"Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you."
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"Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter."
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