George Carlin Quotes
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
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I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation.
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Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.
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For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.
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I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my friends. I want to put true feelings into words. If I make a song when I'm sad, it's a dark one, but I think that's good. No matter when I want to be true to myself.
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I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.
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Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
