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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick
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What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again
Anne Frank
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There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
Rufus Wainwright
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Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.
Sarah Kane
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Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
Cyndi Lauper
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Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.
T. E. Lawrence
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Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you.
Dave Allen
10.
I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.
Gerard Butler
11.
You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.
Doug Stanhope
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One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.
Thomas Jefferson
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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas
John Cleese
14.
I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
Sacha Baron Cohen
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HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
Alice Walker
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It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place.
Michael Grant
17.
I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.
Patricia Piccinini
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The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.
Robert A. Heinlein
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The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.
Sid Caesar
21.
Anger and humour are like the left and right arm. They complement each other.
James H. Cone
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It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
Dario Fo
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Humour is God's special gift to humanity. Handy, because it turns out to be necessary.
Tim Winton
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
Carl Hiaasen
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I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.
Joaquin Phoenix
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
Takeshi Kitano
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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
William Ralph Inge
31.
The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.
Robert Olen Butler
32.
The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.
Bob Newhart
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Sure, there's no 'i' in team, but there is an 'm' and an 'e'.
Kevin Myers
35.
Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.
Brooke Shields
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The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.
Ronald Knox
37.
Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.
Andrew Eldritch
40.
Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
Stephen Leacock
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Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.
Simon R. Green
44.
All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?
John Cleese
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
Agnes Repplier
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As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.
William Wegman
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At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.
Thom Yorke
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The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.
George Mikes
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That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.
Mary Astell