George Carlin Quotes
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
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Believe in the holy contour of life
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André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about life, and a precise sense of form.
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When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
