"Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots."

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Source : Steve Allen, Jane Wollman (1992). “How to be funny: discovering the comic you”

Steve Allen

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“I played six to 10 hours a day, every day, 90 days during the summer, and I'd do incredible things. I would dribble blindfolded in the house. I would take my basketball to bed with me, I'd lay there after my mother kissed and tucked me in, and I'd shoot the ball up in the air and say, 'Finger tip control, backspin, follow through.”
“We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more fitting title.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.”
“Obviously, Sam is the type of guy that hides behind his pen and pad. I promise you he wouldn't say that to my face in a dark alley where it's just me and him and no witnesses.”
“Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.”
“Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.”

Source : "After Lehman Brothers' fall, we must look beyond the banks" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.
“I'm not so interested in technology for technology's sake. I don't need incredibly sophisticated climate-control systems. And I'm absolutely amazed at the time people spend exchanging messages; I don't have a lot of time left over for those things.”

Source : "Women in design: Annabelle Selldorf". Elle Docor Interview, www.elledecor.com. November 10, 2008.
“It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.”

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