Funny Things Quotes - Page 9

• The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.

  Peter Mayle

  Book, Government, Years

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• Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Politician, Can Do

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define.

  Pearl Cleage

  Sisterhood, Easy, Hard

  Pearl Cleage (1993). “Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot”

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• There were tons of bronzed Scandinavian types at the Sorbonne. Marvellously blond and healthy and shining white teeth. Funny thing though, because someone told me that if you actually go to Scandinavia none of the people who actually live there look like that. It's just a front they put up when they're abroad.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Europe, White, People

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• it's a funny thing about Hollywood. Once you've been out here awhile, it's hard to go someplace else, and it gets harder the longer you stay here. Takes some real propulsion to make you leave.

  Pamela Moore

  Real, Hollywood, Propulsion

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• Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Years, Law

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• What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it's actually something that will appeal to a family, that's the trick.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Ideas, Knowing, People

  "Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch talks Penguins Of Madagascar". Interview with Andy Lea, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 7, 2014.

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• In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant class. But the funny thing was, there were literally thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who loved old time fiddling, ballads, banjo tunes, blues played on the guitar, spirituals and gospel hymns. These songs and music didn't fit into any neat category of art music nor popular music nor jazz. So gradually they said well let's call it folk music.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Art, Hymns

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• I don't really hashtag things. Unless I'm talking to somebody and I'm being funny and I say something mean but then I'm like, Hashtag...something that's funny. I like to only hashtag funny things, not real stuff.

  Bella Thorne

  Real, Mean, Talking

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a funny thing, what I really hate yet I have to go through with it, is the preparation.

  Philip Guston

  Hate, Artist, Thinking

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• marrows - alas! - are arriving in a steady stream at the back door. ... Oddly enough, the majority of people who grow them in Fairacre say, as they hand them over: 'Funny thing! I don't care for them myself. In fact, none of the family likes them!' But still they plant them. It must be the fascination of seeing such a wonderful return for one small seed, that keeps marrow-growers at their dubious task.

  Miss Read

  Doors, Hands, People

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• It's a funny thing about weaknesses....Most people will tell you they know their weaknesses. When asked, they'll tell you, 'Well for one thing, I'm overgenerous.' ... that's what innkeepers are for.

  David Gemmell

  People, Weakness, Wells

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 1, 1984.

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• I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

  Norah Jones

  Silly, Energy, Lucky

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

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• The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you...' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Thinking, Numbers

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• The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing that was a book in a vernacular language, and you could imagine there were other readers of this book who you couldn't see, but they were a theoretical union of readers who all use the same language. That is kind of a prerequisite for a national fantasy. You need that thing, and it's a strange thing.

  Ben Katchor

  Book, Europe, Unions

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing you did every day, you'll have accomplished a great deal." And that's all I've ever tried to do.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Smile, Mom, Accomplished

  "Ernest Borgnine Passes Away at 95" by Harout Harmanian, movieweb.com. July 8, 2012.

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• It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.

  Gustav Mahler

  Music, Needs, Answers

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• Some people say funny things - but I say things funny.

  Don Rickles

  People

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

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• What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Couple, People, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

  John Kricfalusi

  Kids, Cartoon, Stories

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• The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV.

  Dave Willis

  Tvs

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• While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Hate, Vegas, Busy

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• The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Watches, Television

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

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• You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

  Glen Hansard

  Decision, Intellectual, Albums

  "Singer-songwriter Glen Hansard". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 18, 2012.

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• With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

  Young Jeezy

  Rap, People, Ems

  "Young Jeezy Opens Up About Rick Ross Beef" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. November 30, 2011.

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