Sam Kinison Quotes
On the Kurds They're the most fucked people on Earth. You know that. They might as well change their name to the Fucks, 'cause they're fucked. We used to be the Kurds, now we're the Fucks!
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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I think of OkCupid as an online bar; a place where singles can go, have fun with each other and in the process hopefully meet new people, some of whom might turn into a romantic relationship.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
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Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.
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I frankly think we in the financial service world believe we need appropriate kinds of regulations. No question about that. But when something like Dodd-Frank has been created, sort of in the mystery of night, it is a huge document. It's vast. It weighs about 10 pounds when I carry it around.
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When I think about singing, and music, I think about how the people who live on the East Tennessee side have more of a curve or yodel to their voices, and then you think about the curve of mountains.
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On the Kurds They're the most fucked people on Earth. You know that. They might as well change their name to the Fucks, 'cause they're fucked. We used to be the Kurds, now we're the Fucks!
