George Carlin Quotes
Reminds me of something my grandfather would say. He'd say, 'I'm goin' upstairs and fuck your grandmother.' Well he was an honest guy ya know, he wasn't gonna bullshit a 4-year-old.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components.
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
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There's just no vision. You have no ground, no vision.
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Human life is but of brief duration. 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever' (Isa. 40:6, 8). Let us hold fast to the commandment that abides, and despise the unreality that passes away.
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I wouldn't say that I was ever a fan of MTV. I was a guy on MTV. I don't think I was ever in the demographic of people who watch MTV. I never really watched MTV, so I'm definitely not a fan of 'Jersey Shore' or anything.
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To me, sex is sex and I don't think it is or should be a problem. Maybe my presenting it that way will unscrew up a few heads out there, including my own.
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Reminds me of something my grandfather would say. He'd say, 'I'm goin' upstairs and fuck your grandmother.' Well he was an honest guy ya know, he wasn't gonna bullshit a 4-year-old.
