George Carlin Quotes
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.
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You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Competition is good and has served us well.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.
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When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
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I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.
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I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
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I kept hearing all these rules: 'You can't say that in country music.' 'You can't use that kind of beat.' I became so frustrated. It may have slingshotted me, in a rebellious way, toward doing something different.
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The hand has the richest articulation of space.
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Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.
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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
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You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.
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There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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Obviously, the Sixties was a time when everyone wanted to experiment, and then everything became very formulated and corporate, so artists tended to get pushed into a kind of pattern. Now, I think that has continued with the emergence of televised talent shows like 'X Factor.'
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I have to work hard for my family. They don't have a lot.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.
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If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.
