Sam Kinison Quotes

Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

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• I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Family
  • Home
  • Together

• People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.

  

  Tara Reid
  • America
  • Party
  • Stupid

• Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Time
  • History
  • Never

• We do participate in the government programs, like probably 95 percent of farmers do. People who aren't familiar with the agriculture industry, you know, try and make that look like something exceptional.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • People
  • Know
  • Government

• I think you start hitting home runs, and you start getting caught up in seeing how far you can hit them. They're fun, but you really only have to hit them a foot over the fence. They all count the same.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Up
  • Home
  • Fun

• The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Business
  • House
  • Running

• Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • English
  • Blonde

• I love what Drake does, but I don't want to be called the Drake of country.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Love
  • Want

• What you see in 'Daredevil' and 'Jessica Jones' isn't the Hell's Kitchen of today; it's a version of what it was like.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Today
  • Kitchen
  • Hell

• I love DKNY. I love her sweaters because I can take them and just wear nothing underneath and just wrap them.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Love
  • Because
  • Wear

• Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Responsibility
  • Challenge

• I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • School
  • Loved
  • Classmates

• My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Know
  • Dad
  • Day

• Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Poetry
  • Impossible
  • Self

• I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • You
  • Understand
  • Tolerance

• I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to put them together and everyone wants to see them together, but also when you're telling these stories you can't throw these people together immediately.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • God
  • Mother
  • Sad

• I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Me
  • Always
  • Try

• If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

  

  Nelson Goodman
  • Refuse
  • Explanation
  • Tolerate

• I don't have the delusion that I'm the best or have the right answer. Whenever someone is out there pissed at you or me, they don't even know you or I. What they are really pissed at is themselves. You might have total respect for them but they don't respect themselves.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Answers
  • Might
  • Delusion

• One of these days, when I get tired of it all, I'll keep six guitars and the amps I'm using, and I'll have a big old auction for charity.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Charity
  • Big
  • Days

• Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Days
  • Straight
  • Seventeen