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My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise.
Flavor Flav
Joke
Scared
Colonel
Go
Up
Chicken
Against
People feel like using the word 'joke' removes responsibility for the hurt their words may cause. It doesn't; in fact, it may make things worse.
Franchesca Ramsey
Hurt
People
Words
Cause
Word
Responsibility
Joke
Worse
Fact
Feel
Like
Make
May
In Fact
Using
Things
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.
Francis Fukuyama
Time
Conservative
Discipline
Wait
Joke
Country
Before
Valid
Approaches
System
Must
Costly
Rationale
Take
Advances
Generational
Tenure
New
Economists
Institutions
Most
Academy
Still
Yes
Hold
Fields
Turned
Turnover
Many
Wholesale
Funeral
Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.
Gene Wilder
Love
Dance
Joke
Fall
About
Could
Take
Missed
Sing
Were
Being
Loved
Then
Really
Trap
Who
Actor
For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form.
Geoff Dyer
Great
Me
Joke
Extremely
Idea
Concentrated
Form
Expressed
I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all did. But it's the idea that the perpetuated story of Aquaman is that he only has powers in water, and he talks to fish. I think it's the idea of him in the middle of a city just doesn't make a lot of sense to people. It's just the character itself.
Geoff Johns
Character
People
Water
Made
Joke
First
Sense
Think
City
Only
He
Idea
Know
Powers
Make
Him
Readers
Sure
Talks
Comics
Fish
Lot
Itself
Did
Maybe
Just
Middle
Story
Who
He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
Georg Brandes
Joke
Danish
He
Understand
Does
Who
Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.
Gerhard Richter
Art
Joke
Laugh
About
Like
Should
Serious
Some comedians tell nice jokes that you can tell to your kids. Some use bad words - they work 'blue.' If you don't want to hear a joke that's blue, you shouldn't go to a comedy club where a comedian who makes blue jokes is performing.
Gilbert Gottfried
Work
You
Jokes
Words
Comedy
Joke
Club
Nice
Kids
Tell
Bad
Some
Performing
Comedian
Comedians
Comedy Club
Makes
Go
Hear
Blue
Where
Want
Use
Your
Who
A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.
Giuliana Rancic
Today
Family
Me
People
School
Rest
Joke
Live
Rumor
High
Mafia
Followed
High School
About
Had
Princess
Call
Years
Forever
Even
The really basic stuff that fuels 30-year job booms almost always comes from government research, stuff like biotech, the transistor, the Internet. The idea that private capital can handle the early spade work is a joke.
Glenn Kelman
Work
Government
Internet
Job
Joke
Research
Almost
Idea
Stuff
Like
Always
Private
Handle
Spade
Capital
Fuels
Really
Basic
Early
Biotech
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
Gore Vidal
Culture
Seen
Joke
Other
Someone
Could
Like
Produced
Hemingway
I like to joke that I already married a 26-year-old and divorced a 29-year-old, so I wasn't going to do that again when I got remarried.
Grant Show
Joke
Married
Divorced
Like
Got
Going
Again
The joke is that no matter how much we think we can evolve, we'll never escape our limitations.
Greg Mottola
Matter
Joke
Think
Our
Evolve
Never
Limitations
How
How Much
Escape
Much
Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list. Perhaps it should be.
Hank Azaria
You
Woman
Women
Will
Joke
Settle
Definitely
Laugh
High
Must
Guy
Guys
Perhaps
Make
Get
List
Should
Who
I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
Hank Azaria
Joke
Naked
Has-Been
Been
Foreigners
Hollywood
Niche
I also had a hosting position on a home and garden television show - which is a joke if you ever see my apartment.
Hannah Simone
Home
You
Garden
Joke
Television
Television Show
See
Had
Hosting
Also
Which
Apartment
Show
Ever
Position
Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
Hanoi Hannah
Me
Sometimes
Joke
Colleagues
Call
Hannah
When I was a little kid, I was chunky. My mother would always joke she would have to get me husky jeans for larger kids. My wife reminds me sometimes, if I overdo it with chocolate chip cookies, that I will have to wear husky pants again.
Harley Pasternak
Me
Sometimes
Mother
Wife
Will
Joke
Pants
Kid
Kids
Would
Wear
Reminds
She
Overdo
Always
Get
Again
Little
Chip
Chocolate
Little Kid
Cookies
Jeans
Larger
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Harper Lee
You
Joke
Books
Out
Out Here
Because
Got
Hitting
Really
Start
Here
That's life's big joke: we all end up looking like Mr. Burns.
Harry Shearer
Life
Joke
Looking
Big
Like
End
Up
Burns
A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.
Hayden Schlossberg
You
People
Joke
Become
Caricatures
Machines
Characters
Rather
Sort
Lot
Times
Than
Improv
Just
Movies
Sequels
Connect
Actually
I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.
Henry Rollins
Great
History
Musicians
Joke
Town
Come
Washington
Literature more often tells the story of impulses we don't act on than of ones we do. I could joke about the Cain and Abel story with my brother without expecting him to be worried, though it's always possible he was more anxious than he let on.
Howard Jacobson
Joke
Worried
Though
Possible
Tells
Brother
About
More
Could
He
Him
Without
Always
Than
Expecting
Anxious
Often
Impulses
Story
Literature
Act
I think the thrust of any child is to try to fit in and be part of it. And I can't tell you how many times my humor, you know, what I thought was humor ended up making me the outsider. Like I'd be, I go, 'It's a joke.' And they'd go, 'Well, what was funny?' And they just thought I was insane.
Howie Mandel
Funny
Me
You
Try
Humor
Thought
Joke
Think
Insane
Tell
Outsider
Thrust
Part
Like
Know
Well
How
Making
How Many Times
Go
Fit
Up
Times
Child
Ended
Any
Just
Many
A lot of the joke of 'The Windsors' is this ridiculous idea of what might happen behind closed doors.
Hugh Skinner
Joke
Closed
Doors
Idea
Lot
Closed Doors
Behind
Happen
Might
Ridiculous
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