A comedian can only last 'til he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.


Will Rogers

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He's a good sport. He's a serious guy, but I don't think he takes himself too seriously.
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It's a topic the gold industry in Nevada takes serious.
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We're going to do some serious talking to the owner before he takes the dog.
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Please, get serious. He can look after himself, he's a big boy.
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Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.
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I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.
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A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
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A master communicator can either set his audience free or imprison them.
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It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy...
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I think it's an important enough case that we have to spend what it takes. It's not about this parti...
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My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he...
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If the injury is serious he will surely have to alter his plans.
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Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I ...
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Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I ...
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Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo)
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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It's nothing serious. He actually fell on the tarmac. There is not much you can do when a crash take...
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The first thing I'd ask him is to justify his means. He takes people's lives. He blows up a lot of t...
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That boy's got some serious feet. He can run, no doubt about it I think we handled him a little bett...
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That boy's got some serious feet. He can run, no doubt about it … I think we handled him a little b...
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He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; w...
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He's such a hard worker. He'll do whatever it takes to not only make himself better, but whatever it...
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Andy takes the game seriously; he doesn't take himself seriously.
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Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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When a man takes an oath...,he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens h...
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(McDyess) has been like that the last week or two. It takes him a little while to get into his flow....
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Earth's crammed with heaven...
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.
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If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramat...
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When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has pu...
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A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would l...
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He got a slight strain. It was best that we took him off. Hopefully it's not too serious and he will...
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It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifet...
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A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainme...
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Every relationship takes you either towards your dreams or away from them.
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The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, no...
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I thought Lenny took him out of his game. He took half the shots [seven] he normally takes [13].
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It's a win-win situation for Saddam and his cronies. He either goes in there and he takes over the p...
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When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, wat...
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If you look at him, you would think he's 20-something. He takes care of his body ... look in his loc...
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Alex, the big kid that he is, he takes care of himself and when guys try to hit him, it's almost a m...
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Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balan...
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All of us would be terribly frightened if we had an engine fire, or a serious mechanical problem. Pe...
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It takes a great deal of effort to either add or subtract a species from listing.
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D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself?
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Naked a man comes from his mother’s womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from hi...
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. . . although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion, if you can keep him all to yourse...
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If there is a failure, there has to be either hardware or software that takes over.
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He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.
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A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
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A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.
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He who takes a partner takes a master
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Anyone who takes the time to attentively listen is either an old soul or a romantic one.
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A man who is advised and he takes it, is still a man who acts from his own free will.
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There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
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There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
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Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
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Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
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I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
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This depression was deep, and you don't climb out of anything as quick as you fall in.
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Lord, let me live until I die.
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One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
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Things will get better -- despite our efforts to improve them.
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You can't say that civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way.
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There should be one day when there is open season on senators.
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
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Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
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Common sense ain't common.
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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
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Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
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People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their...
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Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising a...
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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
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Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
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You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
WILL ROGERS
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United Stat...
WILL ROGERS
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
WILL ROGERS
The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live o...
WILL ROGERS
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
WILL ROGERS
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
WILL ROGERS
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
WILL ROGERS
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
WILL ROGERS
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
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I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
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Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans
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Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we neve...
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Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
WILL ROGERS
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a Hous...
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, a...
WILL ROGERS
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplo...
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If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper t...
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I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat.
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Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
WILL ROGERS
Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifu...
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