"Success is the sweetest revenge."

Williams, Vanessa on revenge
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"When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference."

Graham, Virginia on retirement   

"I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger."

Cosby, Bill on racism
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"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy."

Inge, Dean William R. on religion
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"A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children."

Anderson, Ian on rock and roll   

"There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t."

Lennox, Annie on rock and roll   

"The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't."

Miller, Mitch on rock and roll
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"Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards."

Richards, Keith on rock and roll   

"The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear."

Sinatra, Frank on rock and roll   

"No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to."

Zappa, Frank on rock and roll
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"You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself."

Barrymore, Ethel on laughter
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"When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands."

Mencken, H. L. on kisses and kissing   

"The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?"

Gordon, Ruth on kisses and kissing
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"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

Bergman, Ingrid on kisses and kissing
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"If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again."

Marx, Groucho on jokes and jokers   

"Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh."

Brice, Fanny on jokes and jokers
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"My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself."

Angelou, Maya on jokes and jokers
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"I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did."

Foxworthy, Jeff on jealousy   

"There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening."

Metheny, Pat on jazz   

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

Borge, Victor on laughter
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"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane."

Buffett, Jimmy on laughter
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"Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God."

Connery, Sean on laughter   

"There's no business like show business."

Berlin, Irving on media   

"Scratch a lover, and find a foe."

Parker, Dorothy on love
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"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

Twain, Mark on laughter
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"The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal."

Thurber, James on laughter   

"I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at."

Mizner, Wilson on laughter
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"One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent."

Mencken, H. L. on laughter   

"Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can."

Maxwell, Elsa on laughter   

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been."

Hazlitt, William on laughter
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"There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing."

Dietrich, Marlene on laughter
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"I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself."

Hudson, Rock on interviews   

"People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they -- at least the ones that I know personally -- have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them."

Ryder, Winona on insults   

"For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely."

Dylan, Bob on immortality   

"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."

Thurber, James on humor
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"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun."

Wilson, Flip on humor
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"If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her."

Williamson, Nicol on humor
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"It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean."

West, Mae on humor
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"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

Ustinov, Peter on humor
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"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law."

Clark, Dick on humor