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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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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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.
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It's so easy as a child to identify with 'Winnie-the-Pooh.' The humour doesn't talk down at you. It's a very grown up humour - a little bit ironic, a bit self deprecating.
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I did a geography degree, and if you told me whilst I was ignoring my geography degree revision in order to watch another episode of '24' that one day I wouldn't need that geography degree and I'd actually be in '24,' I'd have been quite pleased, I think.
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This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.
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I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.