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• Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Men, Different

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• When I said Iniesta was the world's best, you laughed. Now you can see I'm right.

  Samuel Eto'o

  Iniesta, World, Said

  "Iniesta graduates from cameo role to take centre stage at Barcelona". Interview with Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2009.

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• I loved Latin -- the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history -- but for some reason I was very bad at it, shamefully and blushingly bad at it. ... In moments of stress the embarrassment of how bad I was at Latin -- a subject I loved -- really hit me. It was like being laughed at by someone you desperately loved.

  Peter Greenaway

  Stress, Latin, Moments

  Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions

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• I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.

  Fran Drescher

  Lost, Whole

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• Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.

  Jeff Daniels

  Long, Dumb, Boards

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• We live in a world where no one believes. Enlightenment and knowledge are laughed at. Those who seek and teach the mysteries are scorned and often persecuted. Welcome to the planet earth: environment hostile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Buddhism, Humanity

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• I love 'Safe Men.' Now it's getting all this culty kind of - it just came out on DVD. That was awesome. I read that script, I never laughed so hard in my life.

  Steve Zahn

  Men, Dvds, Scripts

  "Steve Zahn" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 03, 2007.

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• The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband, Men, Wife

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• When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Player, Laughing

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• If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man, who fought like hell and laughed in the end, but also died, may have had an easier time in his final months, but took his leave with no more humanity.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Pain, Cancer, Men

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

  Ovid

  Mind, Conscious, Rectitude

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• The notion of rights is linked with the notion of sharing out, of exchange, of measured quantity. It has a commercial flavor, essentially evocative of legal claims and arguments. Rights are always asserted in a tone of contention; and when this tone is adopted, it must rely upon force in the background, or else it will be laughed at.

  Simone Weil

  Rely Upon, Rights, Tone

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• It is a good thing to be laughed at. It is better than to be ignored.

  Harold MacMillan

  Ignored, Good Things

  "It is a good thing to be laughed at". Harold MacMillan's handwritten note to the Postmaster General, www.lettersofnote.com. October 12, 1962.

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• The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

  Bela Karolyi

  Gymnastics, World

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• Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.

  Simone Elkeles

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, You are not a businessman. Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did.

  Alexander Hanson

  Important, One Day, Musician

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• Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Appreciation, Children, Successful

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• When I was really little, I was skinny and people laughed at me for being skinny, so, we all pay our dues for the bodies we're in one way or another. But thank god I haven't needed to alter it to feel good about myself.

  Sandra Bernhard

  People, Feel Good, Thank God

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

  Rob Reiner

  Half, Century, Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

  Primo Levi

  Stories, Equal, Oneself

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• Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's something you can't control, and I don't like things I can't control. I worked too hard to have it taken away for something stupid. I ain't gonna be laughed at the way I used to laugh at those crackheads.

  Edgerrin James

  Stupid, Taken, Laughing

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• I have often wondered and even laughed at those who fancied that everything had been so consummately and absolutely investigated by an Aristotle or a Galen or some other mighty name, that nothing could by any possibility be added to their knowledge.

  William Harvey

  Names, Possibility, Galen

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• And should I not, had I but known, have flung the machine this way and that, once more to feel it live under my hand, have sported in the sky and laughed and sung, knowing that never after should I feel so free, so sure in hazard, so secure, riding the daylight in the pride of youth? No more horizons wider than Hope! No more the franchise of the sky, the freedom of the blue! No more! Farewell to wings! Down to the little earth!

  Cecil Arthur Lewis

  Farewell, Pride, Knowing

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• There's no greater feeling than people coming up to me and going, "Man, my father was dying, and we went to see Rush Hour, and it was the greatest night we had in years together. We sat in that theater and we laughed for two hours without stopping. That was just a great memory that I had before my father died."

  Brett Ratner

  Memories, Father, Night

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• I remember seeing Richard Pryor's first movie; it was a midnight movie when I was in high school. I must have been about fifteen. It was one of the most cathartic experiences of my life. I'd never laughed that much.

  Marc Maron

  School, Midnight, Fifteen

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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