"Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know."

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"Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know."

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"I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone."

Democracy, Opinion, Press

"I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival."

Politics, Day, Film

"I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York."

Reality,

"First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined."

Politics, First, Want

"First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy."

Work, Comedy, First, Silly

"Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters."

Life, Company, Years

"And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever."

Lie, Mind, Party

"And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know."

Control, Committee

"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."

Film, Hollywood

"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler."

Politics, Englfrance

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"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Humor, Country, Russia

"I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Humor, Now

"I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."

Stephen Leacock, Canadian Economist

Humor, Life, Day

"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Humor, Art, Dying, Hell

"Humor is the most engaging cowardice."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Humor, Cowardice

"It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on."

Jack Kerouac, American Novelist

Humor, Fault, Theories

"We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas."

Ronald Reagan, American President

Humor, Home, War, Christmas, Country

"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."

Mark Twain, American Author

Humor, Truth, Fiction, Sense, Wonder

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Humor, Rain, Weather

"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."

Ronald Reagan, American President

Humor, Care