- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joke Quotes
What comedians say about making people laugh.
Several quotes here come from people who make a living off timing, including one who admits to softening blunt criticism by wrapping it in humor first, describing it like a cut followed by a few stitches. Another describes the frustrating double standard where the exact same line lands only when a man delivers it.
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- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Following well-established national security screening procedures and accurately informing Congress about them is not a joke or a political game. It is essential to guaranteeing that our national secrets are protected and to preventing possible blackmailing of key administration officials.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't afford to get sick in prison. My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn't eat poorly or not exercise. And everything in jail is designed to do the exact opposite.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, Heathrow has been something of a joke, outweighed by its excellent connections. We have to aspire to having an airport at Heathrow with two runways which is a world-class airport. It's a big challenge.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody from Pitchfork Festival wanted me to have a Microphones reunion. It's a joke. It's just me.
- Grown Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.
- Nov 07, 2020
For the amount of talent I had - and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke - I enjoyed a tremendous career.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and you're going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that's going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The term 'steampunk' itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like 'Big Bang' in cosmology, the diss became the standard.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
They all want to be me. They do! What everybody else says they will do, I've already been doing. They all want to be me. It's become a joke in Congress how Dr. Gingrey and Mr. Kingston have been following my votes. They've even changed votes to what I voted, multiple times. Members of Congress are laughing about it.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm probably the guy who keeps it loose around the room and tries to joke around with guys before the game, keeping things funny.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020