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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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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'Bonnie and Clyde' was the first show and the first role that I got to originate. Being part of that from the ground up and investing three years of my life into seeing that show come to Broadway was really rigorous but also so exciting.
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It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.
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All this had always been and he had never seen it; he was never present. Now he was present and belonged to it. Through his eyes he saw light and shadows; through his mind he was aware of moon and stars.
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Being complacent was never going to teach us anything.
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If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.
