Quotes with joke-teller

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  • Carla Bley It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
    Carla Bley
    American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936 - )
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  • Caroline Rhea It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.
    Caroline Rhea
    Canadian–American actress (1964 - )
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  • Mario Puzo Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.
    The Godfather
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Brian P. Cleary Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Maya Angelou My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Arthur Machen Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Tom Ogden Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.
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  • Jean de la Bruyère One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bryan White One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Bob Monkhouse People always say: You're a comedian, tell us a joke. They don't say: You're an MP, tell us a lie.
    Independent on Sunday obituary
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • Terry Eagleton Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
    Terry Eagleton
    British literary theorist and critic (1943 - )
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  • Bette Davis Sex is God's joke on human beings.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot Television 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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  • Bette Davis The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • George Orwell The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • H.G. Wells The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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