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• I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

  Norah Jones

  Mom, Baby, Calling

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• Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.

  Elliott Smith

  Sleep, Sunshine, Long

  Song: Twilight, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004

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• Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods
  And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.

  Amy Winehouse

  Love Is, Odds, Games

  Song: Love is a Losing Game, Album: Back To Black, 2007

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• I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me,
  I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.

  Amanda Palmer

  Laughter, Bother, Glad

  Amanda Palmer (2015). “The Art of Asking: Wie ich aufhörte, mir Sorgen zu machen, und lernte, mir helfen zu lassen”, p.126, BASTEI LÜBBE

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• They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

  Gracie Allen

  Stupidity, Arcs, Built

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• If you go to bed at night and think about your day and you haven't laughed very much, then you must jump out of bed and go do something fun.

  Marlo Morgan

  Laughter, Fun, Night

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• My grandfather was a giant of a man ... When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.

  Eth Clifford

  Eye, Men, Sky

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• They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'

  George MacDonald

  Use, May, Pressure

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• You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown road blindly, stubbornly, and to search for words rooted like the knotted olive tree- let them laugh. And to yearn for the other world to inhabit today's suffocating loneliness, this ravaged present- let them be.

  Giorgos Seferis

  Loneliness, Dark, Other Worlds

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• In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

  Lewis Black

  Struggle, Emotional, Giving

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• All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of menб that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Passion, Men, Law

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.

  Edvard Munch

  Believe, Blue, Years

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• As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who were developing flying were laughed at as mad, and that scorn hindered aviation. Now we heap similar ridicule upon stratoplane or rocket ships for trans-Atlantic flights.

  Auguste Piccard

  Believe, Years, Europe

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• They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face

  Caleb Carr

  Kids, Artist, Faces

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• But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.

  Wayne Newton

  Men, Giants, My Friends

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• I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

  Horace Walpole

  Thinking, Tragedy, World

  Letter to Sir Horace Mann, December 31, 1769.

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• Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world — no longer laughing — cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Religious, Laughter, War

  "Cecil B. DeMille's Campaign for a Godly Culture" by Mark H. Creech, www.christianpost.com. September 9, 2013.

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• I can see how weird I was. One day I decided the school needed a Christmas tree and spent hours dragging this huge beast of a tree into school. No one was pleased. I got two weeks detention because I was 45 minutes late and had made a big mess of leaves and soil all over the building. All the kids just laughed at me.

  Mika

  School, Kids, Two

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• We laughed a lot. That's one thing we forgot about for a few years - laughing. When we went through all the lawsuits, it looked as if everything was bleak, but when I think back to before that, I remember we used to laugh all the time.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Years, Laughing

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• By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms. Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Country, Heart, Cutting

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• I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

  George Farquhar

  Believe, Belief, Ridicule

  'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 3, sc. 1

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• In truth, one of our company, the solemn warrior Ecthgow, was so demented from liquor that he was drunk while still upon his horse, and he fell attempting to dismount. Now the horse kicked him in the head, and I feared for his safety, but Ecthgow laughed and kicked the horse back.

  Michael Crichton

  Strength, Horse, Warrior

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Eaters of the Dead”, p.56, Vintage

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• You know I had rather be laughed at than not to be noticed at all.

  P. T. Barnum

  Knows

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• There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?

  Artie Shaw

  Games, Playing Music, Why Not

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