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All I know about humor is that I dont know anything about it. - Fr

All I know about humor is that I dont know anything about it. – Fred Allen

Other quotes by Fred Allen

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. – Fred Allen

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Age
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Fred Allen
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Everything is for the eye these days — TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all. – Fred Allen

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Society
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Fred Allen
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Other Quotes from
Humor
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I think its because its so different and it takes risks. Plus, its really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. Theres no laugh track. – Sarah Chalke

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Humor

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different – I love L.A.! – Naomi Watts

Category:
Humor

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. – Lionel Trilling

Category:
Humor

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating. – Simon Pegg

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Humor

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I didnt think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody – I didnt think it described me very well and I didnt think it had anything to do with my music. – Norah Jones

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Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. – Sun Tzu

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A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her. – W.C. Fields

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. – Charles de Gaulle

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power