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Jai Ganesh

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Comedy Quotes - I

Comedy Quotes - I

1. Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. - Charlie Chaplin

2. Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. - Benito Mussolini

3. Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status. - Gwyneth Paltrow

4. I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy. - Sandra Bullock

5. Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. - Woody Allen

6. Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I'm asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids love action movies with comedy, Jackie Chan and all that. - Angelina Jolie

7. People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity. - Pete Sampras

8. When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home. - Robert De Niro.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.