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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Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances.
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I just find P.J. Harvey so mesmerising to watch because she remains unfathomable. She is the kind of woman who makes you rue the day you weren't born her. She always seems to be the cat that walks alone, and you don't feel you are supposed to know her.
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Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
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As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.
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Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice.
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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.
