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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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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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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
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I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.
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Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
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I want more girls' nights, more dinner parties, more date nights, more nights on the couch with zucchini fries watching bad reality television.
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Look upward, Feeble Ones! look up, and trustThat He, who lays this mortal frame in dust,Still hath the immortal Spirit in His keepingIn Jesus' sight they are not dead, but sleeping
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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.
