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You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.


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KURT COBAIN You laugh at me becuse I am different. I laugh at you becuse your all the same.
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KELLEY ARMSTRONG If you can't laugh at your own problems, call me and I'll laugh at them.
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STEVEN WRIGHT The gods want you to laugh and above all they want you to laugh at them.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If you can't laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at?
TIGER WOODS Don't laugh at things you don't understand... smile, because there are things to understand...
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WES ADAMSON It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alon...
JIM BUTCHER Good friends laugh at you, laugh with you, but never laugh behind your back.
SARU SINGHAL Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?
UNKNOWN Please believe me. I've nothing against you personally. It's just that I laugh at all jokes.
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DAVID HASSELHOFF It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.
DAISY BERKOWITZ That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
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VALERIE ROSE STERRETT Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.
CRISS JAMI That is the best - to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
GLORIA VANDERBILT If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
EDWARD W. HOWE If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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TERRY PRATCHETT I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.
JILL CONNER BROWNE In future, you'll laugh at yourself on some things you do now.
TOBA BETA If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
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JESSE MCCARTNEY No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life."
"Wh...
P.C. CAST Don't make me laugh, I'm trying to be mad at you.
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KAZI SHAMS You may laugh at people for what they do, but never laugh at what they are.
VIKRANT PARSAI Laugh till you weep. Weep till there’s nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it’...
FREDERICK BUECHNER When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
ANONYMOUS When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
SOURCE UNKNOWN When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
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E. W. HOWE You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.
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ANDY DICK Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself
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SEAN PENN I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.
DAVID ALAN BASCHE If I speak of the love I have for you, the world will laugh at me, and time will mock me.
SOMA NAZHAD RASHEED KURDI You can’t be beaten by something you laugh at.
JONATHAN HARNISCH if you laugh at pain than pain will laugh back so be wise about how you deal with pain
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MICHAEL JORDAN Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh,...
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COLIN RAYE Think crazily, even if others laugh at you. Act bravely, even if you are all alone.
DILIP BATHIJA I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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BETH HENLEY The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers...
JERRY SEINFELD You have to be able to laugh at yourself. That's what I tell Asian people all the time.
SARAH SILVERMAN And even I have got to laugh at me.
INDIGO GIRLS You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.
SOURCE UNKNOWN You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.
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ALAN W. WATTS Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
HENRY WARD BEECHER That actually encourages us to feel that we are on the right track, that we are doing something diff...
FRED SAVAGE Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the sa...
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SHELLI THOMPSON I do not even laugh at this like others do because the relationship between entertainers and groupie...
JOHN FAHEY Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.
CHELSEA HANDLER It's easy to make me laugh, you can make me laugh, anyone can make me laugh, but that certainly does...
C. JOYBELL C. The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers...
JERRY SEINFELD If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
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CHEVY CHASE Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
LEWIS CARROLL You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE The madder it makes you, the harder you need to laugh at it.
DESTINY BOOZE I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who ...
MAYA ANGELOU If you won’t marry me for the sake of your own honor, then do it for the sake of everyone who woul...
LISA KLEYPAS I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's n...
HARRY CONNICK, JR. I laugh at myself.
I don't take myself completely seriously.
I think that's another qual...
MADONNA If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.
BROM You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE Never laugh at the fate of others, you are the next
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I do not get offended if you insult me, laugh at me or even make fun of me. I am offended when you d...
SAMEH ELSAYED If you can laugh at it then you can live with it
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JONATHAN SWIFT I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
JONATHAN MILLER For the rest,
Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through e...
JONATHAN SWIFT We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
JONATHAN WESTOVER I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,
JONATHAN KOZOL What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
JONATHAN SWIFT I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ...
JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t...
JONATHAN RABAN I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN