"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
-Mel Brooks
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"Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love."
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"I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front."
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"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."
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"A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance."
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"Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said."
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"A joke is a very serious thing."
-Winston Churchill
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"Humor is reason gone mad."
-Groucho Marx
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"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt."
-Erma Bombeck
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"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."
-Mark Twain
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"The secret to humor is surprise."
-Aristotle
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"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."
-Langston Hughes
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