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He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.


J.D. Salinger

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PAULA POUNDSTONE As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sen...
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MAIRA KALMAN Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
CHAD SMITH He is singularly unequipped to beat these people.
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FRED SILVERMAN Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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STEVE JOBS They stayed there, because he and J.D. were good buddies.
EDWARD GOSWICK He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.
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STEVE MARTIN [Ruebhausen] was a belt and suspenders person he was a lawyer who thought through all his options bu...
DAVID ROBINSON I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.
MICHAEL J. FOX I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you�...
STEVEN WRIGHT There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has nev...
SINCLAIR LEWIS There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has nev...
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BO BICE If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS then he needs to get his sense of humor checked.
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CECELIA AHERN My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.
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FRED BEASLEY Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,'...
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HORACE WALPOLE I feel like I've always had a sordid sense of humor, and it's only gotten more twisted as I&...
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DENNIS STOCK I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.
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BILL BURR I had the sense he was covering hysteria.
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BARBARA BUSH I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
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I was certainly not a class clown; I confused and angered a lot of people with my sense of humor.
KATHERINE RYAN "Without a good sense of humor, life gets in the way.”
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JEFF BRIDGES I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.
BILLY BISHOP I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.
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ESTELLE FANTA SWARAY The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.
LAWRENCE KASDAN She had a robust sense of humor and the most infectious laugh.
TESS DESHLER When I was running against Ingrid, I had a sense that she was dropped [around 13 miles],'' Benoit Sa...
DEENA KASTOR It was about 1951. She had written me and said he was very special and he thought she was very speci...
EDYTHE SCOTT BAGLEY She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she su...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.
HERB RITTS He had a very exciting career and a wonderful sense of humor that he shared with his family. He did ...
DARLENE JACKSON Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his lette...
JOYCE MAYNARD I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.

He smile...
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VERA FARMIGA I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
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"I beg your pardon?" ...
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J.D. SALINGER Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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J.D. SALINGER Did you see more glass?
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J.D. SALINGER They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It'...
J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logi...
J.D. SALINGER If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable...
J.D. SALINGER Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things ...
J.D. SALINGER We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with ...
J.D. SALINGER Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousa...
J.D. SALINGER If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
J.D. SALINGER People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.
J.D. SALINGER Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all—...
J.D. SALINGER I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do l...
J.D. SALINGER If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate ev...
J.D. SALINGER It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
J.D. SALINGER Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...
J.D. SALINGER I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park Sout...
J.D. SALINGER I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J.D. SALINGER It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J.D. SALINGER Sleep tight, ya morons!
J.D. SALINGER Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J.D. SALINGER If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor...
J.D. SALINGER Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package.
J.D. SALINGER Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield
J.D. SALINGER She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap th...
J.D. SALINGER One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say...
J.D. SALINGER You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have t...
J.D. SALINGER But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking abo...
J.D. SALINGER Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the...
J.D. SALINGER Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
J.D. SALINGER We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, tw...
J.D. SALINGER -Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That litt...
J.D. SALINGER If you're not in
the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
J.D. SALINGER I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
J.D. SALINGER There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just ...
J.D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy
J.D. SALINGER Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well o...
J.D. SALINGER O tipo da marinha e eu dissemos um ao outro que tinha sido um prazer. Que é uma coisa que me deixa ...
J.D. SALINGER People always think something's all true.
J.D. SALINGER It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you...
J.D. SALINGER Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
J.D. SALINGER Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Budd...
J.D. SALINGER I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does.
J.D. SALINGER American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
PIERRE SALINGER