George Carlin Quotes
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There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!
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I don't think about the media.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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I will forever be proud to call myself a Bruin and will never forget the memories that were made here.
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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you.
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
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During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums.
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I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
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You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.
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I'm about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I'm asking questions that they want the answers to.
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Every day more Americans watch their jobs being shipped overseas.
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The fact that so many people whose livelihood depends on being able to play, it's just crazy.
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People have a lot of control over their ability to rise to the occasion and to show their best or their aspirational selves.
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All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.
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Always do whatever's next.
