"Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable."
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"The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing."
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"I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer."
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"I like that free spirit where you can laugh together and argue. I love a writer's room."
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"I just like making people laugh."
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"An hour and seven minutes after walking up. I stood with Noelle outside the Trust's house and prepared to raise my first -- and hopefully only -- demon. Three minutes after that I looked at my demon and burst into laughter. "What?" the demon asked, turning its head 360 degrees to examine itself "What's so Funny?" "Why is the Summoner laughing and crying at the same time? I don't see what's so funny. I'm a demon; where's my respect? Where's the fear and cowering before me?"
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"Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had."
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"That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice"
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"No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea."
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"I saw Danny Kaye in a movie, and he was doing voices and faces on that big, big screen and making whole audiences laugh. It was just an instant hookup."
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"Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian."
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"Suppose I could shoot myself in the mouth, but what if I miss? People will laugh at me."
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"I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and when their tuxedos are laughing."
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"And, of course, the funniest food: "kumquats". I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste."
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"I always knew I could hold people's attention and make them laugh every 30 or 40 seconds, and I got approval and attention for that, so the behavior was reinforced. Later, that became an important skill on the street corner."
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"No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open."
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"Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me."
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"I used to be a person that wasn't able to laugh at myself easily."
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"Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance."
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"We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake."
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