George Carlin Quotes
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.
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Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse,' the three of them are physically together.
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I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.
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I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.
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I believe that he (Strauss) will remain one of the characteristic and outstanding figures in musical history. Works like Salome, Elektra and Intermezzo, and others will not perish.
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I've spent most of my life trying to make actors comfortable, which I think is 90 percent of getting a good performance.
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People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.
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Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.
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We have people we admire, like Einstein, saying mystery is the most beautiful thing a human being can experience. Yet, everywhere in our culture, everything that is truly mysterious is immediately dismissed.
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One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.
