"Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs."

-- Langston Hughes

#Firsts Quotes #Boomerang Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“When I started Fool's Gold and producing consistent records that were like electro beats with rapping on it that was experimental and weird. I made a mixtape called Dirty South Dance where I put rap vocals over dance music. That was literally an experiment. Now all these rappers are rapping on dance music. This is something I've been trying to build for a while.”
“I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened.”
“Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.”
“Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.”
“I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains.... otherwise they wouldn't race.”
“Closing down in the midst of pain is a denial of a man's true nature. A superior man is free in feeling and action, even amidst great pain and hurt. If necessary, a man should live with a hurting heart rather than a closed one. He should learn to stay in the wound of pain and act with spontaneous skill and love even from that place.”
“Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.”

Source : "Robin Williams Good Will Hunting: Quotes, Wife Speech, Monologue From Sean Maguire" by Zachary Stieber, www.theepochtimes.com. August 12, 2014.
“To fully embark on the whole Phish experience, it's all about going to the city they built beforehand, with the fans and tent city or whatever it's called.”

Source : "Insane Clown Posse's Violent J on working at McDonald's and Janet Jackson's curves". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 18, 2015.

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