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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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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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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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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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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Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.
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To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.
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Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
