Sam Kinison Quotes
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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I hate competition.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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In my personal life, I'm hilarious! I was always a bit of a jokester.
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The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.
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When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.
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It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
