Sense Of Humor Quotes - Page 6

• I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.

  Alton Brown

  Fun, Mean, Poking Fun

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• I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Tragedy

  "Christopher Hitchens on his memoir, Hitch-22". "Hugh Hewitt Show", www.hughhewitt.com. July 13, 2010.

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• Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.

  Margery Allingham

  Humor, Band, Traitor

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• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Sin, Enough

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• my life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Gratitude, Adventure, Rich Life

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• I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

  Nicolas Cage

  Sarcasm, Darkness, Speak

  "Comic-Con: Nicolas Cage, Idris Elba, and Directors Mark Neveldine/ Brian Taylor Interview GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 27, 2011.

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• it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!

  Jean Webster

  Believe, Humor, Two

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.115, Jester House Publishing

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• I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.

  Linda Gray

  Humor, Careers, Laughable

  Interview with Paul Bocchini, www.ultimatedallas.com.

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• I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.

  Paul Newman

  Wife, Trying, Flaws

  "Newman remains animated at 81". Craig Modderno, Reuters, July 12, 2006.

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• I think it's terribly difficult to take sex seriously if you've got a sense of humor.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Sex, Thinking, Difficult

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• In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Hero, Villain, Theater

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.85, BookBaby

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• Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Professors, Denzel, Nutty

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• Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not one of you,' my father pointed out. 'You see, I'm one of the clan M-c-C-A-Y.' And that is how I got both my name and my sense of humor.

  Winsor McCay

  Father, Fighting, Names

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• There's a combination of things [to survive the road trip]. Humor would be key. If everyone has relatively the same sense of humor, then that helps. And things in common, like food, eating.

  Brendan Benson

  Keys, Would Be, Road Trip

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• It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Friends, Kindness, Thinking

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• Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Bob, Mark

  "Hope hailed by friends, family, fans". www.cnn.com. July 29, 2003.

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• If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations many a humble climber will receive to pontificate from the lowest rung but one of the ladder, humanity is in a dangerously receptive frame of mind, and artists a race devoid of either modesty or sense of humor.

  Ethel Smyth

  Art, Humble, Race

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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• My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.

  Warwick Davis

  Attitude, Dad, School

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• It doesn't take much to produce a good merchant of cash-and-carry love: just courage, an infinite capacity for perpetual suspicion, stamina on a 24-hour-a-day basis, the deathless conviction that the customer is always wrong, a fair knowledge of first and second aid, do-it-yourself gynecology, judo - and a tremendous sense of humor.

  Sally Stanford

  Gynecology, Cash, Firsts

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• I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.

  Wendy Liebman

  Parent

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• A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

  Winifred Holtby

  Humor, Needs, Sides

  Winifred Holtby (2011). “Mandoa, Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance”, p.190, Hachette UK

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  Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

  Redd Foxx

  America, People, Black

  Redd Foxx, Norma Miller (1977). “The Redd Foxx Encyclopedia of Black Humor”, Ward Ritchie Press

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• I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

  John Zorn

  Humor, Way, Use

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• I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.

  PJ Harvey

  Thinking, Good Sense Of Humor, Good Sense

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• I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.

  David Draiman

  Family And Friends, World, Today

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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