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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His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
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Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.
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I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.
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I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
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She rebelled against the emptiness and meaninglessness of her life. She hoped that when Bruce was her age he too would rebel if he found his life intolerable. She hoped he would want to do something about it; anything was better than to submit to your fate supinely.
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When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
