George Carlin Quotes

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

George Carlin

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• Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

  

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• Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

  

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• I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.

  

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• In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

  

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• You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.

  

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• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

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• When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

  

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• I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.

  

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• Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

  

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• When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.

  

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• It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

  

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• We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

  

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• There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

  

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• Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.

  

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• You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

  

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• Innovation and commerce are as powerful tools for creating social progress as they are for driving technological advancement.

  

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  • Powerful
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• Initially, they wanted Columbo to wear a driving coat. I said: 'Are you kidding? He's not an English aristocrat.'

  

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• Are you in the car that's almost caused three accidents on North Vance?" Hannah asked. "Because I'm following you with my lights flashing, and whoever's driving isn't pulling over." "Let him go," Claire said. "Trust me. You aren't going to get him to stop." "Oh, God. It's Myrnin, isn't it?" "Tell that police lady to stop chasing me," Myrnin said, annoyed, from the front seat. "Really, I'm not THAT bad at this.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • God
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  • Stop

• I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

  

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  • School
  • High
  • Tiger

• Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom.

  

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• Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

  

  George Carlin
  • Driving