A Quote by Eric Jerome Dickey

jokes are used to hide the truth!

Eric Jerome Dickey

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Eric Jerome Dickey
American - Novelist
Born: July 7, 1961

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

Robin Thicke

You can run from the truth. You can run and hide from the truth. You can deny and avoid the truth. But you cannot destroy the truth. Nor can you make the lie true. You must know that love will always uncover the truth.

Delano Johnson

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

Muhammad Ali

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I am not the kind to hide the fact that I have used artificial means to hide or correct my features.

Pooja Bedi

It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more truth loose in the world, but you can't always be sure it does. You do it because there's a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

Bill Moyers

Dealing with boys at work and being the only girl can be challenging. I have my insecurities, but I've learned I have to be a good sport. I have to be able to take certain jokes and not take them personally. There are jokes made almost every second of the day. I had to develop a tough hide. You know, the music industry is dominated by guys.

Shakira

If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.

Jaggi Vasudev

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Gad Elmaleh

... what most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it. They don't necessarily want to hide the truth from you, but they're out to hide it from themselves

Phyllis Bottome

The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

Michael Patrick King

Hide what you have to hide And tell what you have to tell You'll see your problems multiplied If you continually decide To faithfully pursue The policy of truth

William Batchelder Greene

I used to always hide my hand, I still do. I don't really like talking about it. Sometimes I still hide it and not even realize that I'm doing it.

Gerald Green

I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

Bill Moyers

A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.