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“To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.”

People Knows Ideas Able Together Laughing Path Stage Abstract Beaten Making People Laugh Make Me Happy Beaten Path Off The Beaten Path

Author:Mary Lynn Rajskub

“Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly. Play as often as you can Work as smart as you are able. Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.”

Heart Play Able Laughing Share Smart Live In The Moment Heartfelt

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.”

People Firsts Wells Able Laughing Comedy Make Me Laugh

Author:Nathan Fillion

“A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.”

“It is indeed surprising that a man inspite of his belief in the Fire of Jahannum is still able to laugh, and inspite of his belief in Maut he is able to be happy. Inspite of believing in the Reckoning, he commits evil deeds. Inspite of believing in Taqdeer, he grieves. Inspite of observing the world with its changes, he feels contented with it. Inspite of believing in Jannat, he refrains from righteous deeds.”

Men World Feels Believe Stills Wisdom Able Evil Belief Laughing Fire Deeds Commit Grieving Islamic Surprising Righteous Observing Refrain Reckoning Observing The World

Author:Moses

“We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it doesn't matter. God's laughing at us; God's laughing at God. We can take a joke too. We're pretty funny.”

Feels Matter Seems Able Deals Laughing Buddhism Jokes Buddhist Ridicule Scorn

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.”

Able Laughing Cry Jokes Complicated Practicals Practical Joke

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.”

Knows Men Doe Eye Able Laughing Wise Subjects Exercise Sacred Wit Offended Solemn Commonplace

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.”

People Self Able Laughing Making People Laugh

Author:Anne Lamott

“Once you realize you can make people laugh, it's a superpower. When you're really young, you don't know how to use that power, so I would just say the meanest things I could to get a laugh. I was so awful. I would make fun of kids who didn't deserve to get made fun of. I was just mean, when I was really young. You don't realize that you don't have to be mean to be funny. But, it was something that I was just able to grow into.”

People Knows Mean Made Use Kids Able Young Fun Grows Realizing Laughing Know How Deserve Awful Making People Laugh Superpower

Author:Nick Swardson

“Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.”

People Mean Able Laughing Okay Vanity Plus Sense Of Humor Being Me Minus Laugh At Yourself Being Mean

Author:Katie Aselton

“I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will. First of all, having it outside your body is terribly dangerous. If I were a man I would have a fantastic castration complex to the point that I wouldn't be able to do a thing. Second, the inconsistency of it, like carrying a chance time alarm or something. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.”

Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono

“[On being asked, 'Did you ever say that an actress needs to be able to laugh and to cry and that when you need to laugh you think of your sex life and when you need to cry you think of your sex life?':] No.”

Thinking Needs Able Sex Laughing Cry Actresses Think Of You

Author:Glenda Jackson