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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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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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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Never demand of another that which would constitute his sacrifice to you. Never grant that which would constitute your sacrifice to him.
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We anticipate countries increasing their spending on infrastructure like railways, airports, power plants and ports. Our heavy forging plant has the capacity to cater to each of these segments.
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In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
