Sam Kinison Quotes
I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.
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Realized that on his lips was a mute laugh that I had never seen before. It became him, the expression of a sympathetic man who wishes to show that he knows what’s what.
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Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.
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Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn't poison the rest of us, You can't run a company.
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.
