“I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but… I have a reputation of – people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.”
— Ian MacKaye
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“Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.”
— Jonathan Swift
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“The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.”
— Lisa Loeb
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“I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.”
— Carrie Brownstein
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“Puns are a form of humor with words.”
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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“Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.”
— Jimmy Buffett
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“Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.”
— Jonathan Shapiro
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“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”
— George Herbert
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“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.”
— Mel Karmazin
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“Cynicism is humor in ill health.”
— H. G. Wells
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