Sam Kinison Quotes
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	The director had come to Madrid to court me.   
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	I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.   
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	I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.   
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	When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.   
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	I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.   
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	The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.   
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	The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.   
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	What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.   
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	As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.   
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	Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.   
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	It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.   
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	As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?   
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	I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.   
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	The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.   
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	Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.   
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	It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.   
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	Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.   
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	I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.   
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	Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.   
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	I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?   
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	I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.   
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	From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.   
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	Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.   
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	'I just got shot in the ass with an infected load of semen! Who's the smart-ass?'   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					