George Carlin Quotes
Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.
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Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.
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In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.
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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
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If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.
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My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.
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It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
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This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
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Of the truths within our reach... the mind and the heart are as doors by which they are received into the soul, but... few enter by the mind, whilst they are brought in crowds by the rash caprices of the will, without the council of reason.
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Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are forced to remain idle, are the ferment out of which the most radical political movements are formed. In their ranks the soldiers of the coming revolutions are recruited.
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Eat it, lick it, snort it, fuck it!
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I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.
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I love my sponsors. They make things so much fun for me. We do really fun and exciting things, so I always have a blast. It doesn't ever seem like work.
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France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.
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The way out of the maze of whiteness and blackness that led inevitably, repeatedly, to violent conflict was through the simple recognition of and respect for blacks and whites as not two races but one: the human race.
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Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.
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In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.
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Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
