I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'
I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Sax...
I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used - ever - as an example of what's possible.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.
Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.
It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.
