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“A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.”
“Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.”
“I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pinea...”
“Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.”
“Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.”
“As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.”
“I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.”
“A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.”
“I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.”
“Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.”
“I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.”
“This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.”
“War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.”
“I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.”
“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.”
“You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.”
“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”
“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
“You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.”
“There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small, worn p...”
