Quote by Colin Firth
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack o

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions… the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. – Colin Firth

Other quotes by Colin Firth

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year. – Colin Firth

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relationship
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I absolutely dont care about my looks and Im so used to them that I wouldnt change a thing. I would end up missing my defects. – Colin Firth

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Change
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My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so Ive sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so theres no virtue in that its the way one is raised. – Colin Firth

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Medical
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A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally. – John Ratzenberger

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Humor is mankinds greatest blessing. – Mark Twain

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Humor

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. – Mark Twain

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Humor

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. – Joshua Foer

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Humor

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Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death. – Hesiod

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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. – Marcus Aurelius

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I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness. – Carl Hiaasen

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