George Carlin Quotes

The status quo sucks.

George Carlin

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• Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Strong
  • Mom
  • Audience

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Story
  • Situation

• I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • American
  • Proud
  • Competition

• One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lot of money are the people that want to make money more than anyone. I've seen it with athletes, I've seen it with musicians, you know?

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Money
  • Blame

• I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Cook
  • How

• I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • Country
  • Political

• I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Issues
  • Lefty

• I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Power
  • Powerful
  • Only

• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Song

• I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Long
  • Love

• Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Children
  • Money
  • Education

• Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Nice
  • Sometimes
  • Privacy

• I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Truth
  • Wishes
  • Liar

• I'm a conservative first, and I believe that, if we do a better job of helping Americans understand what we're trying to do, to showcase every place in the country that our ideas are working at the state level, that that will help those at the federal level who want to carry those policies.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Trying

• Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

  

  Rashid al-Ghannushi
  • Identity
  • Peaceful
  • Developing

• I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.

  

  Kristin Gore
  • Truth

• I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• The status quo sucks.

  

  George Carlin