I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.
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SHARON SALZBERG Life is just a bowl of cherries, dont take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherri... BOB FOSSE ...man is as much a parasite on the cow as the tapeworm is on man: We have sucked their udders like ... UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING Being in a relationship means being a partner in team decision making process and accepting shared r... PETER SAYSOMPHANE I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. CLINT EASTWOOD If you can't do it, just laugh about it instead of blushing or being embarrassed. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or ... CHAD HUGO I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of bei... JOHN TRUDELL Every year we have at least one candidate who is attacked because of his or her sexual orientation. DAVE DECICCO It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rig... JOHN CONYERS In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place. GREGORY MAGUIRE So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and... CAMRYN MANHEIM Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but wheth... MAGIC JOHNSON My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at to... THOMAS MUSTER Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I ... ANDREW CLEMENTS I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white... CHAD HUGO I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I ... ALAN ZWEIBEL The quality of sobriety is measured by both your sense of humor and your unwillingness to laugh at t... TERENCE T. GORSKI I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself. ERIC CANTONA People look at animal control officers as being big bad people. To me this shows them taking care of... DEBORAH FRANKLIN Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be a... PAUL MURRAY I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny ... MARLO THOMAS What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnic... CHINUA ACHEBE Being able to function. Being at the peak of what you can do or at the peak of what you think you sh... AMERICAN SOCIETY I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white. CHARLES BARKLEY Instead of dwelling and being upset over something you dont have, appreciate and accept what you do ... BRANDON HOFER I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab. PETER HIGGS I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewar... MIKE FIGGIS You have to have a sense of humor about yourself and laugh at yourself in the company of those you l... DALE SANDERS Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of w... ASAP FERG As an actor it's your job to empathise with your character regardless of whether they have a dif... DARREN CRISS Those are some pretty tough tournaments. I think a lot of those losses was just us being tired and l... KORY PEPPENHORST I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied. NATALIE DU TOIT Feeling at home with ourselves and being able to create a spirit of place that nourishes us physical... ALEXANDRA STODDARD I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anyt... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms. ELIZABETH HURLEY I love it, I love being able to help. Just spending time talking to (the patients), or making them l... HEATHER PATTERSON I wanted people not to care about whether you were gay, straight, black, white, transgender, whateve... BOY GEORGE Your obsession with being in control of your mind makes you so stiff all the times; that is why our ... JASZ GILL I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for televis... JUNE ALLYSON I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody s... WILLIAM WILEY Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. ANON. Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. SIR WALTER SCOTT Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. UNKNOWN Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. ANONYMOUS She had a robust sense of humor and the most infectious laugh. TESS DESHLER Homosexuality is not because of our sexual orientation, but our eagerness and enthusiasm for experie... M.F. MOONZAJER I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of... JOYCE CAROL OATES But I believe this: by and large, the United States ought to be able to choose for its President any... DWIGHT D EISENHOWER I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS It is interesting to introspect whether medicine is a science or art. I think it’s an art based in... DR. VINOD B. NAIR Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no... J.D. SALINGER I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it. PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with ... OLIVER STONE We lived in and out of our flight bags, they being our true and only home. Thus, if we were not actu... ERNEST K. GANN Everything is a theory and you are blind to comprehend it, and reality is nothing but an illusion. ANONYMOUS BEING I'm not 17 anymore. I still have some of the same sort of anger, but I have a sense of humor abo... DAVE PIRNER I know coming in I didn't put any pressure on myself. I said, 'Just do what you're capable of doing ... JASON SMITH Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to te... CAROL BURNETT I think my guys were just a little bit too fired up instead of being relaxed for the game. LARRY GILBERT I live in a beautiful village in the middle of the countryside, and being able to disappear off on m... GREG RUTHERFORD I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor. PATRICIA CLARKSON It's basically a program to teach parents to relax, to enjoy children and to parent with a sense of ... JANET CARTER The commission is all about identifying and eliminating discrimination and hate-based violence, whet... CHERYLE JACKSON Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living ... CATHARINE MACKINNON I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time ... VANESSA WILLIAMS I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, ab... RACHAEL MACFARLANE As we examine the stars, they often feel too far out of reach, yet we aren’t able to deny the sens... MISHI MCCOY If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor. KATE BECKINSALE To describe something as being black and white means it is clearly defined. Yet when your ethnicity ... MEGHAN MARKLE Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of l... ANNE LAMOTT I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind ... CAMILLE PAGLIA At halftime, they were calm. There was no finger pointing, no sense of panic. You could tell nobody ... BRUCE WASEM
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