Ems Quotes - Page 29

• We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

  James Thurber

  Laughter, War, Home

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

  William Congreve

  Marriage, Men, Two

  'The Double Dealer' (1694) act 2, sc. 3

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• I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it!

  Rob Thomas

  Song, Guitar, Gigs

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• You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.

  Jim Thompson

  Book, Reading, Ideas

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. Some people are offended by mixed marriage, gay people, atheism. So what? F*** 'em.

  Ricky Gervais

  Mean, Gay, People

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Oct 12, 2013

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• Conservatism solves problems. Libralism blows 'em up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Blow, Problem, Solve

  "From the Climate Hoax to Health Care to “Hope,” Liberalism is Lies". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 19, 2011.

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• Last thing you want to do with a good movie is hold the audience hostage. As an entertainer myself, I just know it's better when you leave 'em wanting more than to stick around too long.

  Simon Kinberg

  Long, Good Movie, Want

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Nobody knows what the future holds, but right now, I'm cool and comfortable and having no second thoughts at all about retirement. I had a good career, I won every world title, but boxing is wear and tear on the body. It's time to hang 'em up. I'm looking forward to working with some up-and-coming kids, going on walks, and taking vacations.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Retirement, Kids, Vacation

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• If you ain't killin' 'em, maybe your point ain't sharp enough.

  Kevin Welch

  Enough, Ifs

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• You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.

  Noel Coward

  Cat, Knows, Toms

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• What is the story with the airport sinks, that they will not give us a twist-on twist-off human faucet. "Is it that too risky for the human population? We have to do the one-handed pain-in-the-ass Alcatraz-style faucets. "What is it they think we will do? Turn 'em all on full, run out into the parking lot, laughing, pushing each other into the bushes?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Running, Pain, Thinking

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• My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.

  Carrot Top

  People, Laughing, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Ideas, America

  "Defending Liars: In Defense of President Bush and the War on Terror in Iraq". Book by Howard L. Salter, p. 40, 2006.

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• Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Camels, May

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.256

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• They say I'm famous for my chip shots. Sure, when I hit 'em right, they land just so, like a butterfly with sore feet.

  Lee Trevino

  Butterfly, Land, Feet

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• I've always said at the beginning of every single season of the show when I was running the show in the writers' room, "This is the last season, so let's smoke 'em if we've got 'em."

  Eric Kripke

  Running, Lasts, Rooms

  "‘Supernatural’ creator Eric Kripke and producers celebrate 200 episodes". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. November 10, 2014.

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• It's so much more interesting when you're human. I hate making mistakes, but I'm not afraid of 'em.

  Vince Gill

  Hate, Mistake, Interesting

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• And as for baby-boomer parents cluck-clucking about illegal substances, ah, gimme a break. Still, I think I'll pass on the rave. But more power to 'em, I say.

  Ken Wilber

  Baby, Thinking, Parent

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I first started doing it. It still comes from a serious place inside of me. I get up in the morning, and I think I just look better a certain way I do my makeup. I want to shine, I want to glitter. I'm not getting up thinking, "Oh, this'll get 'em." And I'm not doing it to make a statement. I'm just doing it to look like Dolly - the Dolly that I know and the Dolly that you know.

  Dolly Parton

  Morning, Makeup, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.

  William Safire

  Eye, Hot, Stories

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• I know there's a lot of guys who would love to see me fail. Well, good. Let 'em. I'm glad.

  John Daly

  Guy, Failing, Wells

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• I always find a couple of hecklers... I'll kinda look at them, stare at 'em, and let them know I can't be stopped.

  Jermaine O'Neal

  Couple, Looks, Hecklers

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• I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.

  Will Rogers

  Long, People, Be Good

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• I always had the desire to entertain people, whether it was to make 'em laugh or to scare 'em or stir things up just to cause problems.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Laughing, Desire

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• Women! Can't live with 'em, no resale value.

  Jerry Lawler

  Values

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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