“It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.”
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“Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.”
“The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.”
“You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.”
“I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?”
“My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.”
“To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.”
“As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.”
“My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.”
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”
“That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.”
“I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.”
“There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.”
“Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.”
“I try to cope with everything through humor.”
“I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.”
“Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.”
“Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.”
“Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.”
“Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.”
“I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.”
“I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.”
“Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.”
“With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.”