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  • Carl Reiner Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
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  • Joan Rivers Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.
    Joan Rivers
    American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and producer (1933 - 2014)
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  • Paul Goodman Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Bo Burnham Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't treat it like a child or a god, which some people do. This might just be in America, but 'stand-up comedy' is something very particular that I don't particularly relate to.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Angela Carter Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Woody Allen Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bo Burnham Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don't want to bully people, and I don't want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. So I'm actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn't say.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Billy Graham Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Alexis Carrel Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Bill Griffith Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Bill Bryson Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Carlos Ponce Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.
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  • Bryan Cogman Coming out of Juilliard, I had a big head, and a lot of people wouldn't want to be an assistant. But I am so fortunate, and I've learned a ton.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Henry Fielding Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Thomas Gray Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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