Sam Kinison Quotes
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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I believed I was invincible.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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I don't like controversy.
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I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
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Chobani did a really wonderful yogurt campaign on 'Instagram' to shift perceptions away from the fact that they were just yogurt. And they had a 7-point incremental lift on shifting that perception through a brand advertisement on Instagram.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
