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A good joke doesn’t necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one’s own deserving jokes.


Pawan Mishra

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ABBY WAMBACH We laugh if its real. Its a joke if isn't real. I don't laugh much in jokes, because I know they are...
EPHDAN I try not to laugh at my own jokes, but we all know I'm hilarious.
ANONYMOUS One has thieving intention himself, otherwise no one can ever steal from him; no one can ever rob hi...
DADA BHAGWAN She's always up for a good joke. She can always make everyone laugh and smile.
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HARUKI MURAKAMI People need appreciation from more persons than they need love from one person.
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DAVID SIMON Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.
CRISS JAMI If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
BOB EDWARDS If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
HELEN GIANGREGORIO The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.
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ANUJ SOMANY Happiness is a big joke; let us laugh at it loud.
SANTOSH KALWAR By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
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ELLYN GRACE I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... a...
LUCILLE BALL Always laugh heartily at the jokes your boss tells, it maybe a loyalty test.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Parenthood doesn’t improve one’s character, it exposes it.
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STEVE FINLEY People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing....
TOMMY CHONG Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.
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JEFF PAIN Appreciation is wonderful gesture. It is acknowledgement of one’s merit & his achievement.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.
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WALTON GOGGINS We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appre...
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J. DONALD WALTERS One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.
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UNKNOWN Honestly, I like someone who is really grounded, super sweet, honest. I need them to have a sense of...
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OSHO I deem myself as intellectual and analytical as much as I can but still never miss the chance to goo...
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SAM KINISON wasting what little breath he did have laughing at himself. Because sometimes, that’s all you coul...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG If we cant laugh at ourselves, do we have the right to laugh at others?
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ALAN WILSON Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master,
At which the audience never fail to laugh?
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I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children.
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PAWAN MISHRA Not receiving a request through the entitled route is no excuse for not serving it.
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PAWAN MISHRA How many times can one have a heart attack within a week?
PAWAN MISHRA A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.
PAWAN MISHRA As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.
PAWAN MISHRA It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.
PAWAN MISHRA With the wolves around, your humbleness is your worst adversary.
PAWAN MISHRA One of the biggest disadvantages of being grown up is seeing the time rush by faster.
PAWAN MISHRA I may just be on the outskirts of being okay.
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PAWAN MISHRA Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.
PAWAN MISHRA Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well.
PAWAN MISHRA Ahh, love, why is it so easy to let you in, but so difficult to let you out? Why couldn’t you subs...
PAWAN MISHRA It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.
PAWAN MISHRA Isn’t life a collection of weird quizzes with no answers to half the questions?
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PAWAN MISHRA O woman, thou art my imperfection!
PAWAN MISHRA Matters of the heart are so incalculable!
PAWAN MISHRA Am I here to play ‘pass the parcel’ with my balls?
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PAWAN MISHRA You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.
PAWAN MISHRA Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.
PAWAN MISHRA A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys.
PAWAN MISHRA The coins were completely unprepared for this and were sadly deceived by their own inertia.
PAWAN MISHRA When the soul heals, the issues of the body disappear like they never happened.
PAWAN MISHRA Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.
PAWAN MISHRA Many a times a huge problem gets solved with a trivial move.
PAWAN MISHRA If the future depends on stories, then our future looks bright indeed.
PAWAN MISHRA Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in o...
PAWAN MISHRA If a muscleman like Hukum can write a poem, everyone can.
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PAWAN MISHRA Easy accessibility gradually tapers engrossment.
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PAWAN MISHRA We have a mental emergency here. Our noble pal Sevak has just been wickedly divorced by his mind.
PAWAN MISHRA If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout t...
PAWAN MISHRA As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story i...
PAWAN MISHRA Clichés are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.
PAWAN MISHRA A writer can do without food for a few hours but not without the sight of books.
PAWAN MISHRA If you think there is no time to write now, there will never be.
PAWAN MISHRA Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.
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PAWAN MISHRA Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.
PAWAN MISHRA Tell a story in fewer and simpler words.
PAWAN MISHRA Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.
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PAWAN MISHRA Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing.
PAWAN MISHRA One is often unconsciously surrounded by one’s own personal reality
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PANKAJ MISHRA Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to prov...
PANKAJ MISHRA Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only re...
PANKAJ MISHRA Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to ...
PANKAJ MISHRA It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the ju...
PANKAJ MISHRA Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours ...
PANKAJ MISHRA As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one s...
PANKAJ MISHRA As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a tru...
PANKAJ MISHRA Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide ...
PANKAJ MISHRA Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules
ANAMIKA MISHRA Preach little, Pray more;
But Pray for all, not for your own satisfaction;
MISHRA ANKIT While four people were killed on the spot, five died in hospital.
BINAYTOSH MISHRA The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. I...
PANKAJ MISHRA In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equalit...
PANKAJ MISHRA Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects...
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