George Carlin Quotes
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
George Carlin
Quotes to Explore
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Let the path be open to talent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
Sam Neill
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
T. C. Boyle
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
LaMarr Woodley
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
Park Chan-wook
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
Ralph Steadman
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If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.
Said Nursi
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
Nancy Gibbs
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I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam.
Aasif Mandvi
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I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.
Camila Alves
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I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
Obie Trice
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
Gary Wolf
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If I have to pretend to be anything else than French, then I know it's work for me. It's not that it scares me, but it's work. I cannot just pop up on the set and say 'Okay, today I'm Italian!'
Vincent Cassel
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The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.
Yair Lapid
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I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.
Samuel Beckett
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The dead don't die. They look on and help.
D. H. Lawrence
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Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
G. H. Hardy
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A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Saint Francis de Sales
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I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.
Martin Cruz Smith
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I've had tremendous opportunities in film and continue to have them, but it's such a different thing to do a television show, and I'm very lucky to be able to do them both.
James Spader
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.
Gary Neville
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Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
George Carlin
