George Carlin Quotes
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
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I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
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I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.
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Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
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Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.
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I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You don't caucus where you live. It doesn't look good.
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It's easy to make fun of AOL's pending purchase of HuffPo. Just like AOL's purchase of TimeWarner, here we have a new media company - Huffington Post - fooling an old media company, AOL, into overpaying for something that has already peaked.
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Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night.
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If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing.
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An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
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Free speech and the ability to tolerate offense are the hallmarks of a free and open society.
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What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
