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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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 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 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 have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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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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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.
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Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
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You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
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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.
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How small of all that human hearts endure,That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!Still to ourselves in every place consigned,Our own felicity we make or find.With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
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How could millennia-old superbeings be so boring?
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Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.
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Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.
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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
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You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.
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God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.
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What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
