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I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.


Ray Romano
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The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.


Tipper Gore
People are saying I am against the chador. I am not. On the contrary. I am for traditional family values.
Rula Ghani
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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
Christopher Lasch
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If I find something funny and make an older woman laugh, I love that for some reason.


Nathan Fielder
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Some of my fans don't really like it when I respond to people who say things that are trying to be hurtful on social media. But I think it's kind of funny. There's a lot of things that make me laugh, that people would try and say those things. I mean, there's some that I can't even retweet or respond to just because of how bad it is.
Rickie Fowler
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It's funny: most people who recognize me on the subway and stuff - it's much more they think of me as a funny guy. I get much more of people telling me how much I make them laugh, actually. Which is nice.
Paul Giamatti
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
Harry Browne
There's only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.
Jeff Garlin
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I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny.


Tom Bodett
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You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.
Colin Quinn
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.
Al Franken
I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.
Robert Bringhurst
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And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.


Todd Barry
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Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.
Demetri Martin
If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.
Peter Davison
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
Hannah Murray
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I just say what I think is the funniest thing I could say. I'm not trying to make headlines. I'm just trying to say the stuff that I think is funny and will make people laugh.
Amy Schumer
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You didn't want to laugh, did you? It wasn't very funny, was it?


Graham Kennedy
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Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money. But that's not all I want to do. And I think I've proven to some people - the ones paying attention - that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.
Marlon Wayans