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• I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Growing Up, Dad, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, then, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.

  Linus Torvalds

  Fire, Trying, Documentation

  Linux-kernel mailing list, lkml.org. January 12, 2001.

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• The best thing about religion is that it's so transparently absurd it can't possibly last forever. I'm convinced it will only take a small shift in human consciousness for it to be laughed off the planet, and I hope I'm still around when that happens.

  Pat Condell

  Forever, Religion, Lasts

  "Laughing religion off the planet with Pat Condell". Interview with Dave Mckeegan, freethinker.co.uk. February 27, 2008.

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• There aren't many laughs in that and I remember doing a look and everybody laughed and I just thought, wow, that's incredible how you can do that. So I did another look and they laughed again and then I remember thinking, hold on, this isn't right for this piece, you've got to stop it.

  Tamsin Greig

  Thinking, Laughing, Looks

  "Seriously funny" by Jasper Rees, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 29, 2006.

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• I closed my eyes and listened to the occasional chirps of tiny birds hidden in the trees around us, the bubbling of water over rocks down below, cicadas rattling a chorus off in the distance. All sounds of the world carrying on like it always had. So much could change or be lost, and still, the rest of the world went on like it was nothing. It didn't seem wrong, but it didn't seem right either. I'd gone on today like it was nothing. I'd laughed and felt happy and forgotten for a little while that this was now a world without my brother in it.

  Jessi Kirby

  Brother, Distance, Eye

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• When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.

  Carrot Top

  Comedian, My Friends

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• People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.

  Coco Chanel

  People, Secret, Looks

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• Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.

  Walter Bagehot

  Life, Stars, Caring

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.187

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• We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.

  Bubba Smith

  Sports, Talking, Guy

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• In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there was no resistance to it. When they tried the same thing in the 60s it instantly collapsed because people simply laughed at it so they couldn't do it. Even a dictatorship can't do everything it wants. It's got to have some degree of popular support.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Support, Atheism

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• Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

  Vance Havner

  Missionary, Captains, Boat

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• I told them I wanted to be a comedian, and they laughed; I became a comedian, no one's laughing now

  Bob Monkhouse

  Laughing, Comedian, Wanted

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• There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Distance, Thinking, Littles

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.363, Diversion Books

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• When we come to the end of our days, the little things will seem so unimportant compared to how well we've loved, laughed and treasured our lives and loved ones.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Life And Love, Littles, Little Things

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• If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Laughter, Healthy, Trying

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• The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people (20 per cent of the audience) laughed; one was Chinese, the other, whom I couldn't see, might have been an escaped hyena. This laughless francophobic comedy stars its co-scriptwriter, Steve Martin, in what is, by my reckoning, his eighth lousy remake since 1989.

  Philip French

  Stars, Two, People

  "The Pink Panther" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2006.

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• To be laughed at is no great hardship to me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. Caricatures, lampoons, and slanders are my glory. But that you should turn from your own mercy, this is my sorrow. Spit on me, but, oh, repent! Laugh at me, but, oh, believe in my Master! Make my body as the dirt of the streets, but damn not your own souls!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Laughing, Soul

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1858). “Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London”, p.207

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• A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'

  Tom Colicchio

  Couple, Wine, Thinking

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• There's a current notion that you should "take charge of your disease." No thanks. I'm busy. I've got cancer. I'm willing to face having cancer. I'm not willing to face having cancer with homework. I promised Dr. Pipas and Dr. Zaki that I wouldn't show up with sheaves of printouts from the Internet containing everything on Wikipedia on malignancies. They each laughed with detectable notes of relief. Although I suspect my wife has made her way into the health blog ether. Fish oil pills, raw kelp, and other untoward substances started showing up on dinner plates after I was diagnosed.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cancer, Oil, Wife

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• A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Men, Causes, British

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• The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Air, Umpires, Enemy

  KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”

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• On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before?

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Mother, Blessed, Flower

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• I have not laughed since I married.

  Elizabeth Inchbald

  Married

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• Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.

  Ashley Jensen

  Worry, Too Much, Tiny

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• Food became the antidote for feelings of guilt, sadness, and anger. ... Food is a resolution to controversy; food is rescue. We ate and talked and cried and laughed in the kitchen and ate again. This was about more than just food. It was about our mom making connections the best she could and in the way she knew best across the kitchen table, across time and across sadness.

  Rose Quiello

  Family, Mom, Food

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