George Carlin Quotes
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I just have an inability to lie.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
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May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
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The foundation of the house of civil rights is in the voices of all the great civil rights leaders and the soul of every person who heard them. It's in the hands of every person who folded a leaflet for change, and it's in the courage of every person who changed.
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In his house he had a large looking-glass, before which he would stand and go through his exercises.
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... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit. And she is not acknowledging one of the most precious lessons of the women's movement, the lessons of community ... We may not able to tell women that there is safety in freedom. But we certainly can say, with absolute certainty, that for free women, the only safety is in numbers.
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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
