Quotes with joke-teller

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  • Gloria Steinem Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Margaret Oliphant As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • James Baldwin At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Bono Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Walter Benjamin Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Bob Newhart Dick Martin, if you put a gun to his forehead, he couldn't tell you a joke.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Will Rogers Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Louisa May Alcott Housekeeping ain't no joke.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Dick Clark Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
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  • James C. Humes I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
    James C. Humes
    American author and former presidential speechwriter (1934 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Busy Philipps I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Louise Erdrich If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Bill Murray In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Graham Greene It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Bob Saget It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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