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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Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.
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The fascination for me writing about crime in Berlin was the idea that there was this much bigger crime taking place in the background, a fantastically epochal moment in history which is just going on. That just sort of makes the whole thing have a greater resonance.
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Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
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There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.
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If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.
