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've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.
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It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.
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I'm just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don't really know that I'm just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day.
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It will be months before demand really picks up.
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Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
