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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I do feel like I've missed out a bit because I was really close with my sisters when I was at home. It must be weird for them but they cope really 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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It's funny, my kids and I live together, and I have a lot of actor friends. So my kids think everyone is on television every now and again, since everyone they know pops up here, but there's a whole rap of things they won't watch until they're 16 or 17.
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While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.
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It makes me really proud to be able to use my art to spread positive messages around the world.
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How frightening it must be to have your own independent counsel and staff appointed, with nothing else to do but to investigate you until investigation is no longer worthwhile.
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When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.
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I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.
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If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.
