Sam Kinison Quotes

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• There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Morning

• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Physical
  • Hardships

• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Often

• As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • World
  • Live
  • Words

• I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Day
  • Exercise
  • Fight

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

  

  Carly Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Good
  • Important
  • Rock

• I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Today
  • Respect
  • Perfect

• In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • President
  • Place
  • Direction

• I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Women
  • Age
  • Feel

• I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Been

• Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • High
  • Best

• The broad-backed hippopotamusRests on his belly in the mud;Although he seems so firm to usHe is merely flesh and blood.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • God
  • Control

• Our great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Great
  • Children
  • May

• Peter Sissons: The single currency, a United States of Europe, was all that in your mind when you took Britain in?Edward Heath: Of course, yes.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Mind
  • Single

• I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Long
  • Women
  • Strong

• It's important that you take care of yourself and blow off steam in the right way. Don't let some woman walk in and say, "hey, goodbye!" and take your man. Kill her if you can! I'm only kidding.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Men
  • Important
  • Care

• At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow.

  

  Nicole Blackman
  • Cool
  • Moment
  • Blow

• He read at wine, he read in bed, He read aloud, had he the breath, His every thought was with the dead, And so he read himself to death.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Death
  • Wine

• Tomorrow can be a wonderful age.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Age
  • Wonderful
  • Tomorrow

• 'They beat us, they beat us, they made us do their BLOW!

  

  Sam Kinison
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