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• In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of mystery, of humour and contradictions. It was a gift to us, and now it's a legacy.

  Steven Spielberg

  Grace, Vision, Legacy

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• Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

  Alex D. Linz

  Culture, Favourite

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• I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We cant express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

  Bob Hoskins

  Men, Emotional, Expression

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• And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

  Michael Moore

  Powerful, Political, Want

  Interview with Andrew Collins, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2002.

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• What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.

  Rupert Everett

  Becoming, Happened, Angry

  "Rupert Everett: the queen of mean" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2012.

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• I would date a fan, I dont have a problem with that. I look for a good sense of humour in a girlfriend.

  Rupert Grint

  Girlfriend, Fans, Looks

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• I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

  Adam Brody

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• My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

  Maggie Smith

  Thinking, Careers, Pigeons

  "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

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• I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

  Jorge Garcia

  Drama, Trying, Ifs

  "Jorge Garcia, the one-man Greek chorus who helped explain Lost" by Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

  Jorge Garcia

  Reality, People, Mixing

  "Jorge Garcia, the one-man Greek chorus who helped explain Lost" by Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Would Be

  "Bill Bailey: Part Troll", 2004.

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• The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

  Hugh Massingberd

  Love, Life, Family

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• There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered and alienated from each other.... The genius of republics, say they, is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humours which have so often kindled into wars. Commercial republics, like ours, will never be disposed to waste themselves in ruinous contentions with each other. They will be governed by mutual interest, and will cultivate a spirit of mutual amity and concord.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Men, Mutual Interest

  "The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793".

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• A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Fool, Admire, Greater

  'L'Art poètique' canto 1, l. 232

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• There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

  Garry Trudeau

  "Garry Trudeau: 'Doonesbury quickly became a cause of trouble'" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2010.

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• The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is it a hammer?

  Thom Yorke

  Giants, Hammers, Radio

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• This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion

  Jean Baudrillard

  Distance, Spy, Use

  Jean Baudrillard (1998). “The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures”, p.121, SAGE

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• I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?

  Martin Lawrence

  Mean, Keys, Soul

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• I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

  Ken Livingstone

  Refuse

  "Ken Livingstone: 'It's an autobiography, not porn'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• I was a weirdo. I wasn't picked on or anything. And I wasn't smarter than the other kids; that's not why I didn't fit in. I've always had this weird anxiety. I hated recess. I didn't like field trips. Parties really stressed me out. And I had a very different sense of humour.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Party, Kids

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• Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

  George Gissing

  Laughter, Fate, Farce

  George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.153, Booklassic

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• I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well. I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic.

  Eva Mendes

  Sexy, Ambition, Doe

  "Eva Mendes Doesn't Want to Just Be 'Sexy'" by Gillian Koenig, people.com. July 13, 2010.

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• I don't think a comedian should even be concerned with being cool or sexy, as soon as you do, you aren't a comedian any more. Looks are still the most important thing for women when it comes to meeting a partner. And that's fair enough, but a sense of humour is really important too. For starters, it's a great indicator of whether you are going to get on. If the first time you go on a date you don't find each other funny, there's a fundamental problem.

  Ricky Gervais

  Sexy, Thinking, Comedian

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• BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man who wishes to do something. A man of great wealth, or one who has been pitchforked into high station, has commonly such a headful of brain that his neighbors cannot keep their hats on. In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Men, Thinking

  Ambrose Bierce (1958). “The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce”, p.20, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Heart, Bravery

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.102

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