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I like to amuse myself.
You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
Small things amuse small minds.
People who are obsessed amuse me.
I write the books to amuse myself.
Liberals amuse me. I am a socialist.
We only ever write jokes that amuse us.
Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.
I do films that amuse me and I can enjoy watching.
Fashion and decor should amuse you and your friends.
I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.
I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.
I have severe ADD, and I'm constantly looking to amuse myself.
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.
I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.
I believe words should amaze or amuse. Only then will the listener want to understand the meaning of the song.
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
I think when you grow up - cement floors, tin roofs, having to amuse yourselves... you know, the importance of work - I think these are benefits that I've had.
In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.
Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they all sound like they use the same guitar player to me.
It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.
'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.
I live my life in a very peculiar way where nothing gets my goat as such. I don't look at things in a manner where they offend me. I look at things in a manner where they amuse me.
When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.
Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews.
If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.
I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's greatest moments are when she gets to talk about child rearing and bullying and all kinds of things like that.
Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it.
Back when Jerry Seinfeld was just another comedian hanging around the clubs, I'd imitate him to amuse myself and the other comics. The club owners would say, 'What are you doing that for? Nobody knows him.'
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
I've always liked older women. One sad thing about being my age is that there are no older women. I used to amuse my mother's friends even at five or six with witty turns of phrase. Somehow, I just knew how to be funny.
In those of us who have the mysterious ability to amuse others, it is usually the case that even before we were aware of our own abilities, we had become practiced at laughing more than other children in our social circle.
What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can. Reach them and inspire them or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before.
She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.
I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.