George Carlin Quotes
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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When I fell for Johnny Galecki, we both knew immediately that we had this connection, and that was it.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.
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The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.
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You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
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Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.
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Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
