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• I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

  Toni Morrison

  People, Annoyed, Understanding

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.256, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

  Bob Newhart

  Happiness, Moving On, Laughter

  Bob Newhart (2006). “I shouldn't even be doing this: and other things that strike me as funny”

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• Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Sad

  "The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

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• It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

  Robert Plant

  Thinking, People, Feelings

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• I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy.

  Serena Williams

  Sexy, Winning, Exciting

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• Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

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• ...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Love, Laughter, Thinking

  Gloria Vanderbilt (1986). “Once Upon a Time: A True Story”, Fawcett Books

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• If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

  Robert Jordan

  Giving, Coins, Crowds

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.577, Macmillan

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• A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

  Og Mandino

  Kingdoms, Vanquish, Inexpensive

  Og Mandino (1988). “The Greatest Salesman in the World: Featuring the Ten Vows of Success. The end of the story”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• I felt it shelter to speak to you.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Relationship, Shelter

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.275, Courier Corporation

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• Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Funny, Trust, People

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.327, Penguin

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• My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter. In a sort of brave way. It's not as if I'm never friendly. Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but i do care for some people.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Katniss, People

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.164, Scholastic Inc.

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• Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Iris Johansen

  Powerful, Two, Silence

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• A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Hamlet And Ophelia, Villain

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Peace, Determination

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.6, Random House

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• We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

  Paul Reiser

  Long, People, Comedy

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Hurt, Faces, Theater

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• The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Blessing, Essence, Boredom

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• We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

  Barry White

  Sister, Baby, Brother

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.

  Shania Twain

  Regret, Giving, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes when you smile, it's not because you're happy. It's because you're strong.

  Pamela Anderson

  Strong, Sometimes

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• Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important.

  Hermione Gingold

  Sex, Laughter, Laughing

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

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• So you have to take the good with the bad.

  Candace Parker

  Life Going On, Goes On, Never Regret

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• When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

  Robert Southwell

  Thinking, Frowning, Fortune

  Saint Robert Southwell (1856). “The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell”, p.59

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• I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.

  Wyclef Jean

  Character, People, Want

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