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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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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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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Russia's partners should understand it's best not to mess with us.
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I just want to serve up the goodness and grace that's been given to me because I made a choice that lined up with my passion. And that's what I tell my kids.
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Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.
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I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.
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I think a lot of artists get confused when people like their music; they think that means people know and like them. I'm sure there's an element of truth to that, but to me, the music I make is what I'm most proud of. I prefer to focus on that and for people to focus on the music, too.
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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
