"I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style."
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"If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy"
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"And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep."
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"He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything."
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"People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid."
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"If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating."
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"Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?"
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"No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love."
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"Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response."
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"All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone's mad at me, I'll deflect anger with humor. My days are filled with laughter. If I'm not laughing, I'm not happy."
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"In times that are dark and God seems far [away], I look for him in small ways - the innocent laughter of a child on an airplane, the way the rain falls down through tree branches, the aroma of honeysuckle as I ride my bike down the Natchez Trace, and through the love of friends who have carried me through the darkest times of my life."
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"And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously."
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"Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language."
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"I have a great love of animals and laughter."
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"I believe that laughter is our greatest export"
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"Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves."
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"But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . ."
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"Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place"
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"I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on."
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"She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous."
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