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Walter Cronkite

TV and Radio Broadcaster, News Anchor

Reagan was an exceedingly likeable guy, just a heck of a nice fellow, despite his politics. He was funny and loved a good joke, the dirtier, I'm afraid the more ethnic, the better. I don't think he brought very much to the presidency, except charisma and success.

Joking - President

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Steve Martin

Comedian, Actor, Musician, Writer, Filmmaker

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

Joking - Laughing

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Immanuel Kant

Philosopher

Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

Femininity - Fools - Joking - Man - Wellness

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Washington Irving

Writer, Editor, Diplomat

There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of a laugh, say what he may. He may utter as much nonsense as he pleases, and all will pass current. No one stops to question the coin of a rich man; but a poor devil cannot pass off either a joke or a guinea without its being examined on both sides. Wit and coin are always doubted with a threadbare coat.

Devil - Doubt - Joking - Man - Pleasure

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Miley Cyrus

Singer, Songwriter, Actress

Ever since I was little, people would always make jokes about my low voice. But I think it's so cool that you don't have to have the picture-perfect, girly voice to do an animated film. I think it's great for kids with different voices to know that they could do something like this.

Girl - Joking - Perfection

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Ricky Gervais

Comedian, Actor, Director

I think all art - even one as lowly as making jokes about celebrities - is there to make a connection.

Joking - Making - Thinking

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Kanye West

Rapper, Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Enjoying - Joking - Laughing

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Winston Churchill

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

A joke is a very serious thing.

Humor - Joking - Serious

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Saul Bellow

Writer

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

Danger - Joking - Serious

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Jon Stewart

Comedian, Writer, Producer, Director, Activist, Political Commentator, TV Host

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about.

Joking

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the Old Testament. There's nothing like it in the literary canon that exalts genocide, to that extent. And it's not a joke either. Like where I live, New England, the people who liberated it from the native scourge were religious fundamentalist lunatics, who came waving the holy book, declaring themselves to be the children of Israel who are killing the Amalekites, like God told them.

Countries - Criminal - Holiness - Joking - Liberty - Religion

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Gene Wilder

Actor, Screenwriter, Director, Producer

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.

Actor - Fall - Joking - Trap

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J. D. Salinger

Writer

Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.

Joking

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That idea is a kind of joke on both authors and readers. All the readers believe that authors do it. All the authors know that it can't be done.

Belief - Character - Joking - Kindness - Novel - People - Reading - Real - Story

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Will Rogers

Actor, Columnist

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Government - Humor - Insanity - Joking - Politics - Sarcasm - Watching - Wit

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George Orwell

Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Critic

And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.

Fall - Joking

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Sacha Baron Cohen

Comedian, Actor, Screenwriter, Producer

I think you can be politically incorrect, but there's some responsibility with that. You've got to make sure that you are not condoning or bolstering any racial or other stereotypes. You've got to be free to make jokes, but just make sure...you don't want to go and black face somewhere to just prove a point. If it's insulting and offensive just for the sake of it that's problematic.

Insult - Joking - Offence - Proof - Stereotypes - Wants

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Jane Austen

Writer, Novelist

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

Actions - Joking - Man - Objectification

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Lewis Carroll

Writer

You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.

Joking

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Larry King

TV Host, Radio Host

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Joking

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Michael J. Fox

Actor, Comedian, Producer, Author

The secret to a good marriage, as far as I am concerned, is a joke I make: Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

Joking - Secrets

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Kanye West

Rapper, Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer

I think my sense of humor is really dark and super twisted and stuff like that. It's like, "Is this a funny joke for real? Or am I just rich?" See? That was funny.

Joking

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William Blake

Poet, Painter, Printmaker

I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.

Angels - Crying - Enjoying - Holiness - Joking - Lie - Meekness

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John Cleese

Actor, Comedian, Screen Writer, Producer

This is the most important joke I've ever heard. Niels Bohr, the founder of Quantum Physics, had a friend to dinner. As the friend left, he noticed a horseshoe nailed above Bohr's front door. He said to Bohr, accusingly, "Niels, you're a great scientist. You can't believe in superstitions." Bohr answered, "I don't, but apparently it works anyway."As with confirmation bias, we tend to lean toward superstitions that benefit us.

Belief - Joking - Science

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Kanye West

Rapper, Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

Execution - Frustration - Having - Joking - Leaving - Ownership

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Stephen Colbert

Comedian, Writer, Producer, Actor, TV Host

Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to just hit the backhand. You can't think about all the pieces of it. You can't think about your swing. You just have to do it. Reading someone else's deconstruction of what I do, all it does is put me in my head. On nights when the show goes particularly well, I am not aware of its fluidity. A lot of nights I'm just worried that I'm not going to be as good as the script in front of me.

Ability - Athletics - Joking - Show - Wellness - Worrying

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Stephen Colbert

Comedian, Writer, Producer, Actor, TV Host

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

Joking - Laughing - Making - Politics

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Leonard Cohen

Singer, Songwriter, Poet, Novelist

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone.

Joking - Laughing - Spending

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Ricky Gervais

Comedian, Actor, Director

I don't like it when I see a racist comedian go up and say, 'What are we gonna do about all these immigrants?' and they get a round the applause. I think, 'Well that's not a joke. That's just your biased opinion.'

Immigration - Joking - Thinking - Wellness

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Joe Biden

President of the United States

There used to be an old bad joke. I hope it's not so much a good joke anymore. 'Everybody's from Scranton; no one's in Scranton.'

Joking

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Thomas Aquinas

Friar, Philosopher, Priest, Theologian

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

Joking - Making - Mindset - Relaxing

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Isaac Asimov

Writer, Professor

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Enlightenment - Joking - Kindness - Politics - Wisdom

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