George Carlin Quotes
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.
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I think being bi-continental is something I want to continue. Kuala Lumpur is my home, but L.A. is where I've been able to make the music that I want.
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Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.
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A tinker’s debt is always paid:Once for any simple trade.Twice for freely given aid.Thrice for any insult made.
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I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.
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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
