George Carlin Quotes
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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God does arithmetic.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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Being surrounded by love and people that care about your heart is the dream. That's what I would like on my last day.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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When I was younger, I had conversations with friends about wanting to create something different. Every young musician probably thinks that. But it's difficult to do, because there are only so many words, notes, melodies, songs. But as soon as I stopped thinking and started feeling, it worked. I didn't realize it till I was done.
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Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.
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I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.
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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
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The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
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My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she would always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a finer fate and home than any other she could have had.
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I used to be Irish Catholic; Now I'm an American. You know, you grow.
