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.
Wendell Phillips -
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.
Dallas Roberts -
I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
Oscar de la Renta -
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren -
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.
Carli Lloyd -
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.
D. B. Sweeney
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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.
Wendy Kopp -
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
Barbara Broccoli -
People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
Oliver Evans -
I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
Wallace Shawn -
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.
Campbell Scott -
Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
Ted Danson
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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.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
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.
Pat Paulsen -
I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.
G. H. Hardy -
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford -
You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
Malcolm Bradbury -
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Man, that first Leppard album really jams, and their original guitarist, Pete Willis, was a great player.
Darrell Lance Abbott -
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw -
A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias -
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
George Carlin