Sam Kinison Quotes
When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.
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Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
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Space flight's good for age; I have a lot less wrinkles up here. It's a good place to be as you get older.
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I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.
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I don't enjoy doing stand-up. I see it as being like exercise: I feel good about it after I've done it.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
