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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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• I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death.

  James May

  Wish, Events, Helping

  "Top Gear" with Richard Hammond, July 27, 2008.

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

  Anatole France

  Learning, Oneself

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• We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.

  Robert McCracken

  Kindness, Skills, Ideas

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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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• Adam Roberts is the affable and infectiously curious friend we all wish we had with us in the kitchen—the one who prods us with questions, entertains us with amusing tales, and makes us feel better when our cake flops.

  Amanda Hesser

  Feel Better, Cake, Kitchen

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• The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.

  Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully

  Heavy Heart, Way, Hearted

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• Of course, everyone wants to be healthy. The amusing thing is no one's really sure how to do it.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Health, Want, Courses

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• Adrian had always found it amusing that a guy could be drilling Stacia up her ass while she considered herself to be a virgin. Her intent had been to present herself as such when she found "Mr. Right."

  Jess C Scott

  Mr Right, Guy, Lust

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• The rural Chinese in Henan Province mixed alcohol and business like you wouldn’t believe. Perhaps as a result, they also had a charming nationalistic blind spot: they honestly believed they could out-drink everyone else on the planet. As an Irish-American who outweighed them by 50 pounds, I had come to find this both amusing and useful.

  Matthew Polly

  Believe, Blind Spots, Alcohol

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• I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.

  Michael Koryta

  Thinking, Ideas, Curiosity

  "Sanctuary Of Suspense: A Lighthouse On 'The Ridge'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. July 10, 2011.

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• Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.

  Gilles Menage

  Art, Medicine, May

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• Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

  Alexei Sayle

  Play, Sick, Tvs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have the body of a GOD

  Gautama Buddha

  Body

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• There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end.

  Chad Harbach

  Fun, Writing, Worry

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• Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

  David Low

  Men, Thinking, Giving

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• I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.

  Eric Bana

  Opposites, Ideas, People

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2009.

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• Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

  Fay Wray

  Work, People, Done

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• Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.

  Fred Brooks

  Comfort, Arbitrary, Programming

  "No Silver Bullet". Book by Fred Brooks, 1986.

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• Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

  Hugo Weaving

  Creating, Kind, Film

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• I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.

  Rupert Holmes

  Character, Knowing, Mind

  "PLAYBILL BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Rupert Holmes, Lyricist-Librettist of The Nutty Professor". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. August 4, 2012.

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• The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Pieces, Amusement, Kind

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• We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated, .. And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that.' .

  Ingmar Bergman

  Seven Months, Long, Amusement

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