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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.
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Do what you love and the money will follow.
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What we don't know is much more than what we know.
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I really believe there is something in the nature of a democracy that naturally leads people to distrust the government, to assume because a democracy is built by people just like themselves that there must be secret plots and cover-ups and wizards behind the scenes running the machine.
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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.
