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?
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.
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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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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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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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I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S. senator. I personally contributed my own money.
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My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.
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For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.
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My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.
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Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
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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?
