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• I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're just a reaction to what I see. I don't leave this apartment in the morning and say to myself 'Today I'm going to be funny and tomorrow I'm going to be sad.'

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Morning, Differences

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• Zsa Zsa Gabor got married as a one-off, and it was so successful she turned it into a series.

  Bob Hope

  Successful, Funny Marriage, Married

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• It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it

  Clifford Geertz

  Looks, Done, Century

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• I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.

  Ken Dodd

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• It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.

  John Hill Burton

  Book, May, Impossible

  John Hill Burton (1862). “The Book-hunter, Etc”, p.141, Edinburgh : S. Blackwood

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• I think Lilyan (Tashman) is one of the most amusing people I know but I believe she dresses in too flamboyant a manner. Where some women wear one or two diamond clasps, she wears four!

  Hedda Hopper

  Believe, Thinking, Two

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• I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm like, 'Do you have any idea what I do for a living? Why?'

  Jimmie Johnson

  Moving, Cutting, Ideas

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• Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Summer, Children, Fun

  "English Social History".

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• I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the other one, and you couldn't blame them, but it was very amusing anyway.

  J. D. Salinger

  Two, Looks, Ugly

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

  Karen Abbott

  Cities, Chicago, Looks

  Karen Abbott (2007). “Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul”, p.3, Random House

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• Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.

  Marlon Brando

  Men, Numbers, May

  "The Only Contender". Book by Gary Carey, 1979.

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• [London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Dog, Attitude, Character

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• To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

  Anton Chekhov

  Mean, Live Simply, Idiotic

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• The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre (daring) one year before its time, Smart (in its own time), Dowdy one year after its time, Ridiculous twenty years after its time, Amusing thirty years after its time, Quaint fifty years after its time, Charming seventy years after its time, Romantic one-hundred years after its time, Beautiful one-hundred-and-fifty years after its time.

  James Laver

  Beautiful, Smart, Years

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• Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are perfectly healthy but often convinced they're not.

  Vincent Canby

  Fashion, Fun, Intelligent

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• What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue

  Photography, Art, Pain

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• Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had merely to touch it, to reach out urgently and press it, squeeze it, pinch it, rub it. She did not understand Yossarian's lust; but she was willing to take is word for it.

  Joseph Heller

  Men, Lust, Needs

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that.

  Persis Khambatta

  Stars, People, Gone

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• It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.

  Anatole France

  Learning, Oneself

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• If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

  Terry Pratchett

  Littles, Had Enough, Crime

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.132, Random House

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• Gideon was a force of nature, his magnetic self-possession so powerful it put everyone around him in his shadow. I saw flashes of it every day and was awed by it, but not nearly as much as I was by the charming, wryly amusing lover I had entirely to myself in our private moments together.

  Sylvia Day

  Powerful, Self, Shadow

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• Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

  Gore Vidal

  Education, Teaching, Drinking

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• I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Literature, World

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• Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Luck, Stories, Vomiting

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

  Sherry Turkle

  Being Alone, Expectations, Feelings

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.154, Basic Books

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